Sentence examples for intent on grasping from inspiring English sources

Roberto Mancini has come through with his promise to change the club's history and from here they can surely embrace a future in which they seem intent on grasping the keys to the football universe.

But what we can do is help families who have done everything right stay in their homes whenever possible". Polls indicate voters are unnerved by the economy and impatient with incumbents, and both Reid and the president seemed intent on showing they grasp the public mood.

A party of diminishing returns, unwilling to learn the lessons of the recent past and intent on further losing its grasp on what it means to be an actual Opposition.

The killers were described as having rained blows on the inert soldier before dragging his corpse into the street, roaming around and waving off would-be helpers with bloodied hands, cleavers still in their grasp, apparently intent on keeping the body on public display until the police arrived.

He is intent on avoiding another one.

AS President Obama heads to Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos this week and next, intent on reversing China's drive to tighten its grasp on Southeast Asia, he is exercising an uncannily Asian-style diplomacy.

It rather focuses on correctly grasping suffering.

What if we assume benevolent intent on the part of the visiting aliens but also postulate that they do not grasp the concepts of fiction and performance and humor?

Many saw President Uhuru Kenyatta's claim that "local political networks" were responsible for the attacks as evidence that the government had not grasped the gravity of the terror threat facing Kenya and was intent on making political capital out of it.

McCaw and his team —  even without two stars,  Daniel Carter and Mils Muliaina, who were injured earlier in the tournament   — were intent on not letting this opportunity on home soil slip from their grasp.

To her mind, it proved what everyone else including President George Bush had failed to grasp: that the ANC was not just an anti-apartheid movement; it was a revolutionary socialist organisation intent on destroying South Africa's capitalist economy.