Sentence examples for bent raises from inspiring English sources

Yet the system's authoritarian bent raises serious worries.

While keeping your left knee bent, raise your left leg and rest your left heel against the wall.

Release the Metal:  Once the metal is bent, raise the clamping handles and remove the sheet metal.

While bending, raise the arm that is on the same side as your lowered leg up as high as possible.

Knees bent, fists raised, elbows tucked, eyes up, poised.

It is also bent on raising the military cost to America of defending the island in any future crisis.

SCORECARD: Mr. Pataki trots out that old Republican chestnut about Democrats being big spenders bent on raising taxes.

Advocates of containment and deterrence suggest that Iran will be encircled by a "like-minded group" of nations bent on raising the costs of adventurism.

In the first half of this year, North Korea appeared bent on raising tensions, quitting six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, testing a long-range rocket and detonating a nuclear device.

[Page A26.] Most of the Bush spots attacked Mr. Kerry as a political equivocator bent on raising taxes and soft on defense, an image that some Democrats and opinion polls suggested was beginning to take hold in voters' minds.

But President Vicente Fox is bent on raising Mexico's political profile, not just in the United States but everywhere, striving to bulk up his country's influence in world affairs and ending a history of self-imposed and sometimes haughty isolation.