Sentence examples for have been so intent on from inspiring English sources

But one reason House Republicans have been so intent on shutting down the government is because they think it's still going up, in part because of the unrelenting fear-mongering of organizations like, yes, Fix the Debt.

"I have never been able to understand why people have been so intent on recovering bodies.

That's a reason Westerners have been so intent on killing wolves and grizzly bears.

We have been so intent on breaking the job into pieces that we never came to grips with the whole thing.

All of which helps explain why Speaker John A. Boehner and Congressional Republicans have been so intent on facing down President Obama in their budget dispute.

"I have been so intent on looking, so determined to see, that I fear I have clouded my mind," she writes.

The Lebanese Army, meanwhile, has been so intent on preserving its status as the country's one neutral institution that it is now largely impotent.

NBC has been so intent on fellowship and the thrill of victory that it has neglected the thrill of an agonizing defeat, namely Russia's.

The Gore team had been so intent on preparing for a contest that it had not even formally asked the Supreme Court to stop the certification.

The city has been so intent on building cyberspace that it has failed to notice the collapse of its physical space.

Months earlier, I had been so intent on preventing myself from harm, I had spent Christmas avoiding any sort of travel at all.