Sentence examples for was not bent from inspiring English sources

Miners at the hearing viewed the commission with suspicion, and panel members spent considerable time reassuring residents that the state was not bent on closing the mines.

Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the chamber's second-ranking Republican, said his party was not bent on war with Iran, but merely demanding that the Obama administration fully implement the sanctions available to it.

When he was not bent over his drawing pad, he recalled, he was sneaking cigarettes, playing in a rock band, working in a record store or experimenting with homemade pipe bombs (he still has a scar).

But other associates of Mr. Clinton said it was important that the public know his views, and that he was not bent on ridiculing his successor or fixated on every move of the new president.

HONOLULU — Opening a seven-country tour of Asia shadowed by fears about China's rising influence, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared here on Thursday that the United States was not bent on containing China, even if its relationship with Beijing was complicated.

The high saving in those decades was partly involuntary: people suffered from credit constraints imposed by a sleepier financial system that was not bent on lending against every dollar of household wealth or future income.By the early 1980s Americans had large amounts of equity locked away in their houses.

Boras was not bending.

When it became clear on Friday that the government was not bending this time, India's stock market recorded the biggest gain of the year.

Clearly, he would not have picked Oprah for his confession if he wasn't bent on trying.

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Children step from a chair to bent arm hang in the rope and the time in bent arm hang will be recorded until the arms are not bent anymore.