Sentence examples for intent driving from inspiring English sources

23), which described how some small companies were delisting their stocks after the Sarbanes-Oxley law raised their paperwork costs: The law may have an effect opposite to its intent, driving more high-quality companies off of public listings than lesser-quality ones.

See table 3. Other offences include: criminal damage, breach of peace, severely disorderly behaviour, kidnapping, possessing weapons or imitation firearms with intent, driving without licence and taking conveyance.

New measures will be politically unpopular: the opposition parties who control Congress seem intent on driving a hard bargain.

Evidently disturbed by polls showing Congress with a single-digit approval rating, they appear intent on driving it to zero.

To Mr. Spector, Mr. Glickstein is a fine man but one intent on driving a "fool's bargain".

Meanwhile, Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, said the central bank was not intent on driving down stock prices.

A Druze and Christian rebellion against Bashīr broke out in June 1840, supported by the British, who were intent on driving Muḥammad ʿAlī out of the Fertile Crescent.

When the lowly monk Fong ventures to the temple, intent on driving the ghosts away, he instead falls in love with the beautiful Lotus.

Bolden seems quite intent on driving home this message of achievement equivalence -- lauding, for example, Russia's contribution to the space station.

The Kurds say they have taken over most of the city and are intent on driving the Syrian army out of Hasaka.

We headed toward the Picos de Europa, intent on driving along the Desfiladero de La Hermida, a gorge cutting through the mountains near La Hermida.