Sentence examples for may be bent from inspiring English sources

Will may be bent on conquest, but he also wants to make everyone immortal.

But that promise too may be bent: Germany has a general election in September.

For example, metal inserts to be molded into a plastic electrical connector may be bent out of position.

Yet on any given Saturday, the rules may be bent or ignored, even by referees under pressure from parents and coaches.

Mandrel, cylinder, usually steel, used to support a partly machined workpiece while it is being finished, or as a core around which parts may be bent or other material forged or molded.

A.C. Lee is widely believed to have inspired the character of Atticus, who imparts on his children, Jem and Scout, such lessons as the nature of a compromise, when the law may be bent and when it must remain rigid, and the wisdom that may be learned, as he put it, by climbing into another person's skin.

There is also the fact that Jews are disproportionately represented in the academy, and as scholars dedicated (in theory) to objectivity and a universal rationality, they may be bending over backward to avoid slipping into a tribal identification.

"Given the heavy-handed government intervention in Chinese markets of late, from the currency devaluation to disallowing institutions from selling shares, there are fears the IMF may be bending the rules to accommodate the world's second largest economy into its special drawing rights".

Facebook may be bending the rules of privacy, but it hasn't broken them.

On the other hand, a charity that has a very low expense ratio may be bending the rules for example, reporting part of the money it spends soliciting you by mail as program spending under the guise that the mailing is educating you about its cause.

Mr Hollande may still be bent on his new 75% top tax rate, yet on other matters the tone has changed.