The phrase "is bent to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a particular action or attitude taken by someone or something that is either intentional or has been determined by an external factor. For example: "He was bent to success and refused to accept failure as an option."
Imagine what will happen when this is bent to political ends.
The first person you meet in the book is Fat Curt, a veteran of the corner, with "needle-scarred hands", arms like "swollen leather" and "bloated legs" who is "bent to this ancient business of survival".
But it still ought to be avoided, for five main reasons.The urge for business bosses and ministers to co-operate is powerful but ought to be avoidedThe first is that, far more often than not, the outcome is bent to selfish ends.
In such a scenario, all elements of public life become branded by the people in charge: the logo of the corporate state is stamped on every available surface, language is bent to reflect the new idea of omnipotent economic forces, and marketing, both conventional and based on new technologies, becomes the central agent of control exercised by the powerful over the masses.
More interestingly, its specific capacitance almost does not change even when it is bent to 135°.
In several practical applications hot-finished steel pipe that exhibits Lüders bands is bent to strains of 2 3%.
Statistics are supposed to have a plastic quality that allows them to be bent to prove any argument.
"What I am worried about is a justice system that can be bent to service the rich," the columnist Richard Godwin wrote in The Evening Standard.
Florent Grelier, a clean vehicles engineer at the Transport and Environment (T&E) campaign group, told the Guardian he feared that EU attempts to improve air quality were being "bent to the will of the automotive industry".
Lazarus knows about turning cool technology into commercial products: ACX used piezoelectric solids, which generate electricity when they are bent, to produce vibration dampers in K2 skis.
Because the light leaking out of the waveguide is all in synch, the waveguide might be bent to form an antenna that emits light wave with sculpted phase fronts, he says.
