Sentence examples for firm bent from inspiring English sources

Tooth, a lumpen British comic fantasy set in the States, turns on a battle between the inhabitants of a subterranean fairyland and a security firm bent on capturing the tooth fairy.

Earlier this month, concerned citizens of Antigua Island reported illegal clearing of mangroves by a Chinese firm hell-bent on delivering one more mega-tourism development replete with golf courses, marinas, casinos and hotels, almost mirroring a similar Chinese development disaster on Bimini Island in the Bahamas.

Users of the ReservePlus loan card pay themselves an interest rate pegged at the prime rate (currently 5%) plus a service fee of from 2.9% to 3.25% of the outstanding balance, which goes to Bent's firm.

The card works like any other ATM card, but the cash you withdraw comes out of your 401(k) via a special money market fund set up by Bent's firm.

Flake also noted the polling firm has a leftist bent, but conceded nonetheless that he had voted against a popular measure.

Alastair Morgan, whose private investigator brother Daniel was murdered in a case which Mr Ellison said could cast new light on suspicions that a detective in the Lawrence investigation may have been corrupt, said yesterday it appeared increasingly clear that the Met had contained a "firm within a firm" of bent officers and called for a full investigation.

He also rates "the office of the Madrid architecture firm Selgas Cano, housed in bent, transparent plexiglass".

That business went to a number of firms with a more Republican bent, like Farrell Fritz, Nixon Peabody and Snitow & Cunningham, which handled millions of dollars of county business during the last 30 years of Republican rule.

His firm is normally reliable, with an industrial bent.

His other firm, Founders Fund, also has the same ideological bent but supports startups, not just early-stage research.

Her wholly effective fix for my sensitive bent: Omorovicza's Gold Flash Firming Serum and Gold Rescue Cream, which make great use of gold, a natural anti-inflammatory.