Sentence examples for market bent from inspiring English sources

First, it provides an excuse of sorts: with the governments in Britain's main export market bent on committing financial suicide several times over (see article), it is not surprising Britain has suffered.

"But do they maintain such a distinction even when confronted with creatures that defy our usual expectations," she said, "that present what seems to be a fuzzy boundary between animals and objects?" Professor Gelman agreed with Professor Turkle that the new digital dolls coming on the market bent the familiar boundaries between the animate and the inanimate.

Then again, the current transportation market — bent as it is on finally becoming profitable after sustaining years of losses, built on collectively billions of VC dollars, to grow — is consolidating rapidly, and many of the fiercest rivals have suddenly started combining as a result.

Mr. Goolsbee, who has a free-market bent, opposed bailing out Chrysler.

At the Center for College Affordability & Productivity, a two-year-old research organization in Washington, D.C. with a free-market bent, we evaluate colleges on results.

The equalizers probably aren't happy that the Freeman Foundation, which encourages supplemental school spending with its matching grants (totaling $4.4 million in Vermont in 1999), was funded by Mansfield Freeman of insurance giant AIG, and has a free-market bent.

"I think the U.S. tech startup scene is really well suited to B2C tech with such a large homogenous market, big money from Angels/VCs and such a marketing bent", says Letts. "Building a B2B tech company takes different skills and we probably have a slightly more level playing field over here".

Toward the end of high school, he joined the youth wing of the Progress Party, drawn to its anti-immigrant platform and market capitalist bent.

Mr. Petrov says the issue now is whether Mr. Putin's free-market, albeit hands-on, style will prove better than the free-market-chaotic bent of Mr. Yeltsin's years in power.

Mr. Atkins, widely considered the most conservative member of the S.E.C. in recent years with the strongest free-market bent, was appointed by President Bush in July 2002 at the height of a series of corporate accounting scandals.

While most General Assembly members seek attention from existing global institutions for their economic distress, however, they are not agitating for a reversal of the institutions' market-economy bent.