Sentence examples for intent on perpetuating from inspiring English sources

The popularization of the telegraph and the telephone was opposed by business lobbies that were intent on perpetuating specialty services.

Richard Mancino, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, said that "the system here in New York is broken" and that lawmakers were intent on perpetuating the status quo "where the incumbents pick who their voters are going to be".

Kevin Rudd established the contemporary standard of actions taken in pursuit of an operatic grievance, but rather than fleeing from that particular example in horror, various politicians seem intent on perpetuating the cycle.

And, if unchallenged, their respective interpretations will gradually harden into divergent versions of reality and unassailable truths -- that Yasir Arafat is incapable of reaching a final agreement, for example, or that Israel is intent on perpetuating an oppressive regime.

So why is Hollywood intent on perpetuating these lies?

Banking reform is neatly pilloried as a leftist assault on free enterprise by financial institutions intent on perpetuating corporate welfare policies.

So why do we insist on perpetuating this punitive approach?

They do insist on perpetuating this state of affairs.

"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.

This seems to inevitably lead to some kind of hierarchy, which is intent upon perpetuating itself.

He is intent on avoiding another one.