Sentence examples for intent on narrowing from inspiring English sources

Francis is clearly intent on narrowing this distance.

Balls, who was schools secretary for three years until the general election, warned that the current education secretary, Michael Gove, was intent on narrowing the curriculum.

Zeroing in on intent narrows the scope of equal protection; the net effect — of the voting-related constitutional amendments and the judicial precedence that's followed — points to a subordination of individual rights in favor of states' rights.

Zeroing in on intent narrows the scope of equal protection; the net effect of the voting-related constitutional amendments and the judicial precedence that's followed points to a subordination of individual rights in favor of states' rights.

Incredibly, however, he seems intent upon narrowing the gap.

One senses that President Bush is intent on stapling his narrow, hard-right Sept. 10 agenda onto the Sept. 12 world, and that is his and our loss.

Intent narrows the crime considerably, and the term "inflict" is not used.

On the night of 10 11 November, a Russian column under Strik's command began its passage through the narrow canyons, intent on arriving at Dürenstein by noon; two more columns, under Dokhtorov and Schmitt, moved in wider semicircles, planning to pass through the mountains and attack the French, who were extended along the river bank.

He is intent on avoiding another one.

That case, Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs reached the court as Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was leading a narrow majority that appeared intent on curbing Congress's 14th amendment enforcement power; the court had recently ruled that states were immune from damage suits by their employees under the federal laws against discrimination on the basis of age and disability.

For too long, I realized, I'd been needlessly orthodox in my own thinking, intent on cramming Indonesia into the strictures of my narrow brand of lost-ism.