Sentence examples for money intent from inspiring English sources

From 1485 to 1509 he ruled England, a usurper-king steadily tightening his grip and casting his net for money, intent on establishing his Tudor dynasty firmly on the throne.

Months later, his clash with conservatives spawned "The Munger Games," a blog devoted to bashing what it calls a "one-man maelstrom of money intent on remaking California Republicanism in his bow-tied image".

Mr. Bronfman, who would be putting up some of his own money, is intent on regaining the entertainment properties his family sold to the French conglomerate Vivendi in 2000 along with the Seagram liquor empire that the family controlled.

Many of the poor countries that would most benefit from mobile money seem intent on keeping its suppliers out mainly by insisting they should be regulated like banks.This is often a mixture of laziness and turf protection: if the president's cousin owns the country's main bank, he may not rush to let cheap mobile-money systems into his country.

So in December Mr. DeChristopher went to a federal auction of oil and gas leases — offered in the Bush administration's closing days and even then the subject of protests and lawsuits — and bid on contracts that he had neither the money nor intent to actually fulfill.

Yet McCue, unlike many of his contemporaries who disappeared with their investors' money, is intent on making good on the $100 million he has left.

But when Mr. Datta got to Manhattan in January, he was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and intent to distribute proceeds from drug trafficking.

There simply is no effective way to stop the flow of money from donors intent on buying influence over public servants and policy.

Her reputation suffered after the discovery of a suitcase filled with $800,000 that American prosecutors say was campaign contributions from Venezuelan officials, though no evidence ever surfaced that she had direct knowledge of the money or the intent of those who collected it.

Gorodetsky financed the house's construction with borrowed money, with the intent for it to be an apartment building.

Blurbs on books are traditionally supposed to motivate interest in reading the whole thing or at least forking over money with the intent to finish reading and yet somehow very often blurbs seem as if they were written by someone under deep hypnosis, or by an autistic robot with a PhD in tickling.