Senate Republicans on the House-Senate conference committee angrily denounced Dodd's proposal as "smoke and mirrors" that violated Congress' intent to devote TARP repayments to reducing the deficit.
Her latest blog post proves that she's intent on blazing forward: she's as devoted to helping others as ever, and she's finally finished her book, "Carry On, Warrior".
He is intent on avoiding another one.
And, intent on a broader political mission, that history devotes unusual attention to women's suffrage and the treatment of American Indians.
Mr. Ohlsson seemed more intent on mining this music's inherent drama than on being fetishistically devoted to the letter of the score, and his departures seemed reasonable poetic license.
Indeed, many of today's philanthropists including Bill Gates, who has so far donated over $20 billion to his foundation are, like Lord Sainsbury, intent on being far more active than previous generations of philanthropists in setting clear goals and devoting a lot of their own time and energy to seeing that their money is well spent, during their own lifetimes.
This is the largest such institution in Europe, a national museum devoted to exploring the history of a people this country was once intent on eradicating.
Although blessed with a vast audience devoted and open-minded enough to follow him down ever-more obscure musical paths, he seemed intent on alienating them, regardless.
His late wife ran a Victorian inn in upstate New York; his son grew up mimicking his father's medievality and, shunning his contemporaries, devoted himself to early music; his mother-in-law is an ethnic Lemko from the Carpathians, intent on recreating the way of life her people lived before their slaughter and forced deportations in the 1940s.
But the second two years were devoted to managing the gridlock created by the backlash against the first two, with a resurgent Republican Party intent on Obama's defeat.
He devoted many years to yacht racing, twice winning the Transpacific Yacht Race in the 1950s, but was intent on pursuing a career in the record industry.
