Sentence examples for bent on trying from inspiring English sources

Xinjiang could very well reignite, but instead of fire prevention, each party seems bent on trying to prove the other side is the one with the lighter fluid".

Clearly, he would not have picked Oprah for his confession if he wasn't bent on trying.

But the teams this week were bent on trying to keep things as normal as possible.

Vladimir Putin cannot abide that notion and appears bent on trying to restore a version of the status quo ante.

But the Giants seemed bent on trying to reproduce the dazzle of the passing offense, as if the game were a dress rehearsal for future contests.

But it also was one whose stakes grew higher by the moment, and by the end Mr. McCain seemed bent on trying to take over his own political party -- some called it a hostile takeover -- with the help of millions of new voters he had drawn into the Republican primaries.

The people, in this case, will have to circumvent a Congress bent on actively trying to hurt the poor.

Throughout the later years, he seemed bent, sporadically, on trying his hand at a masterpiece, at some larger work.

For 40 yards, Cutler fended off a convoy of blockers bent on taking him out and tried to make a touchdown-saving tackle on a San Diego interception.

"It clearly shows they are trying to embarrass the Hindu community and are bent on taking our girls forcefully".

He replied: My father who prided himself in the fact that no one could make him laugh (which any Freudian will tell you was the reason that I have been hell-bent on trying to make the whole world laugh) succumbed to only one man's talents: Bert Lahr.