Sentence examples for intent on consolidating from inspiring English sources

The former beauty-pageant flutist dead set on undoing health care reform and the working-class Harvard law grad intent on consolidating her husband's legislative triumphs couldn't be further apart in their political goals or in their personal histories.

But the new guidelines are aimed at helping people who are intent on consolidating and eventually paying off their debts, and will depend on banks and other creditors being willing to compromise with borrowers.

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said in a statement on Monday, "The unilateral decision to make Palestinian sites in Hebron and Bethlehem part of Israel shows there is no genuine partner for peace, but an occupying power intent on consolidating Palestinian lands".

The young Un, meanwhile, would be intent on consolidating the positions bestowed on him by the fawning press: as the Great Successor, leader of the Korean Workers Partyy and its Central Military Commission, Supreme Commander of the armed forces and Genius of the Geniuses (though not yet as the country's leading golfer).

"If there was ever any doubt, it is now clear that Arroyo is absolutely intent on consolidating and perpetuating her power by shifting it from the executive to the legislative branch," Pacific Strategies and Assessments, a political and business risk consultancy in Manila, said in a report in March.

Later, at a news conference in Tripoli, his deputy, Ali Tarhouni, reiterated that message, in a sign that the rebels, with growing assertiveness, are intent on quickly consolidating their control of the country.

Instead, they have focused on consolidating their power.

Further efforts should now focus on consolidating this trend.

The Mandela government (1994 1999) likewise looked elsewhere, concentrating on consolidating democratic institutions and nation building.

They made lengthy disquisitions, ostensibly on behalf of their powerless "constituents," who had elected them, but cursory facial and auditory scans revealed their occluded intents: to consolidate power; kowtow to "lobbyists" ultimately responsible for their election; or, often, just to hear the sound of their own voices.

He is intent on avoiding another one.