Sentence examples for intent on hitting from inspiring English sources

Not to get too graphic, but such situations are really more of a case of a drunk driver intent on hitting someone and a drunk person walking on the sidewalk just trying to get home.

Last season he would have pulled them foul "or just flat-out missed them," said Burnitz, who still takes a big swing and often appears intent on hitting home runs.

Both officers were repeatedly questioned about how Iraqi troops were supposed to indicate that they wanted to give up, when allied bombers were still intent on hitting them the moment they emerged from their bunkers.

Barton has impressed so far this season with his passing game and accurate crossing from wide areas, but yesterday against Sunderland he seemed intent on hitting long, hopeful balls for Leon Best and Shola Ameobi to challenge for.

The thing that most annoys me about comic book superhero movies, apart from the inevitable baffling third-act onslaught of special effects, is that they are so intent on hitting the required beats of the formula that there is very little space left to squeeze in a sense of a distinctive directorial voice.

In 2008, as the CEO of a software company that had just missed its target for the second quarter in a row, I was so intent on hitting our fourth-quarter revenue number of $8 million — and so scared for my job — that I promised the company I would get a tattoo of the number somewhere on my body if we hit it.

Msimanga did not go to Taiwan to rattle the Chinese or even make a statement on foreign policy priorities, according to Msimanga himself, his intent was laser-focused on hitting the ANC and President Jacob Zuma where they are vulnerable: China.

It seems to hark back to a time when teachers were in control of their classrooms and curricula instead of at the mercy of government initiatives and exhausted by paperwork, and when children could go off at tangents without being hauled back by those intent on target-hitting.

The chance served notice of Arsenal's intent to hit City on the counter-attack and shortly afterwards they won a penalty.

The visitors were happy to let Bournemouth knock the ball about in front of them, lurking with intent to hit the hosts on the break.

Mr. Clemens said later that he did not realize that Mr. Piazza was on his way to first and that "there was no intent" to hit him.