Sentence examples for intent on suppressing from inspiring English sources

Ever the consummate politician, Johnson was clearly intent on suppressing potentially damaging information.

We soon forget their vices because essentially they are ordinary folks trying to survive in a harsh, foreign society that is intent on suppressing them.

Mr. Winkler and Mr. Smith help carry the expanded story lines, as a wacky administrator and a villain intent on suppressing a cure for cancer.

From Hamilton to Aitken; from the Police Federation to the "alternative" drugs salesman Matthias Rath, the Guardian has had to risk millions in defeating claimants intent on suppressing or defeating our journalism.

Later, Al-Masry Al-Youm posted a video report from the hospital, which features very graphic images of dead protesters, on YouTube: Mr. Hamalawy also reported on his blog that while state television blamed protesters for the violence, and "even called on the citizens to take to the streets to 'protect the army,'" the authorities seemed intent on suppressing more critical reporting.

In a column in the editions on Thursday, he speculated, tongue in cheek, that the sales spurt could have been the work of "someone involved in a truly monumental school project; someone really proud of their grandchild on the honor roll; someone with a great deal of precious glassware to pack; or, as I suspect, someone intent on suppressing the dissemination of a particular news story".

Gung-ho generals intent on brutally suppressing the insurgency have succeeded only in intensifying it.

That backfired because the intent to suppress it gave it far more publicity.

CX614 similarly acted only on suppressed synapses.

Mr. Fearon and Mr. Laitin highlight the role of "insurgency" as a cause of civil war: weak states are unable to suppress insurgents intent on waging a civil war.

The fact that this regime probably holds the dubious distinction of slaughtering more Palestinians since 2011 than the Israeli state is constantly overlooked, as is the fact that it's more intent on using its armed forces to suppress internal dissent than to liberate the Israeli-occupied Golan.