Sentence examples for next intent on from inspiring English sources

AS President Obama heads to Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos this week and next, intent on reversing China's drive to tighten its grasp on Southeast Asia, he is exercising an uncannily Asian-style diplomacy.

Torre spoke sharply to the team after a 16-3 loss in Toronto on Sept. 19, and invigorated, the Yankees went out the next day intent on refocusing; they were thumped, 7-2.

Despite the excitement following the result, people quickly sat down to listen to the next speech, intent on hearing all that was said.

And it must, in the course of whatever else it means to accomplish, leave a person eager for the next bite and intent on the one after that.

Sure, no one really wants to try and dance next to some fuckwit intent on capturing the atmosphere of an evening well spent on a grainy iPad video, or some brainless sponge continually texting, but the occasional SMS, or the odd photo, are harmless.

Next season I am intent on making sure that dog is housebroken".

What he finds himself resisting was expressed succinctly by the late Southern cartoonist Doug Marlette in the days when Atlanta, in its haste to become what its boosters referred to as "The World's Next Great City," seemed intent on sanding off all its Southern bumps and edges — not just the ugly residue of legally sanctioned racism.

The iconic photo of band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alekhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30 handcuffed in a glass cage has already generated the type of attention that has reignited the idea of freedom from oppressive regimes the world over, and it has very likely begun creating the next generation of hooligans intent on overthrow the current corrupt rulers of Russia.

Mr. Gelb said he had been intent on replacing next season's opening gala with a new production.

Messier, who turned 40 in January, is intent on returning next season and has hinted he can play even longer.

So many designers are intent on the next great trend that some of the basics are neglected".