Sentence examples for intent on resolving from inspiring English sources

The benefits were often determined by outside arbitrators, who were intent on resolving disputes rather than assessing whether towns could afford their promises.

A senior State Department official said that Mr. Kerry assured Mr. Li that the White House was intent on resolving the standoff.

The jurors, seven men and five women who sat through more than two months of testimony, were so intent on resolving the case that they worked through the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday.

And that those divisions will be hard to finesse, despite the efforts of centrists and pragmatists in both parties, and the urgings of a White House intent on resolving the drug issue before next year's election.

The other set arises from the political instrumentalization of external resources and interventions by domestic political actors intent on resolving conflict through violence.

It focuses on resolving opposites.

"The idea was how do we resolve the profound social differences". That account, of Súmate as an organization independent of other groups intent on removing Mr. Chávez from office, does not squarely line up with history.

In uncertain times, with multiple countries seemingly intent on testing Washington's resolve, that may prove to be the lame-duck Congress' most important contribution to America's future.

denied, 480 U.S. 941 (1987); National Football League v. McBee & Bruno's, Inc., 792 F.2d 726, 731-32 (8th Cir. 1986) ("the legislative history [of the Copyright Act] demonstrates a clear intent on the part of Congress to resolve, through the definition of 'fixation'..., the status of live broadcasts, using -- coincidentally but not insignificantly -- the example of a live football game").

He is intent on avoiding another one.

With a life tampered by sexual violence, exploitation, and poverty, she is, like so many women, struggling at the margins, intent on raising a child with only resolve and love on her side.