Sentence examples for chief bent from inspiring English sources

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Choosing instead to blockade Cuba until the Soviets withdrew their missiles, he showed what can be freely done by a commander in chief bent on avoiding war until it becomes absolutely necessary.

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A casually profane man with a philosophical bent, Chief Campanello, 48, first drew national attention last spring when he wrote on Facebook that the old war on drugs was lost and over.

The contract also says the two chief port pilots, Bent Christiansen and Michael Rubino, are supposed to get called back only if no other pilots are available.

Peter Varney, Charlton's chief executive, had said Bent would remain with the club unless their £17m valuation was matched.

Her brother spends much of the episode punching or stabbing people to avenge the family's honour, and while Blush Pang turns out to be a wrong 'un in the end, we're left with a new villain for the series, in the form of bent police chief Jedediah Shine, the man at the heart of it all.

The former Chief Rabbi of Denmark, Bent Melchior, who has been very active in reaching out to the Danish Muslim community, offered us his advice to Muslims: learn the local language and culture and obey local laws.

"Lalique was an immensely talented artist with an entrepreneurial bent," said David McFadden, chief curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

"Investors tend to overlook the potential for risk in money market funds," said Bruce R. Bent, chairman and chief executive of the Reserve Funds, a New York fund group.

The label chief's most obvious aesthetic bent is garage rock, the raw sound of basement bands, mostly dudes, banging out three- and four-chord anthems of rebellion and lust.

The chief clerk of the bank, Mr Bent, hates Moist on sight as a committer of that worst of sins: silliness.

Merrill has been booking solid profits partly because chief executive Stanley O'Neal Stanley O'Neal has been hell-bent on cutting the fat marbled through Merrill's operations.

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