Sentence examples for were already bent from inspiring English sources

The Unionists were already bent on bringing down the Executive in January, citing the failure of Republicans to give up their guns, but an almost farcical pile-up of events accelerated the timetable.The latest of these, the alleged IRA infiltration of Northern Ireland Office files, is now to be investigated by MI5.

They threw long into a line-out, even though the trees behind the Shed were already bending in the wind, and watched Wasps steal the wobbling ball and pass it down the line.

By then Sen was already bent on an academic career.

Lebanon needs generous ones, because as it struggles to rebuild itself after the Israeli invasion, it is already bent double under a weight of debt.

Yet with his vacant stare, the haggard intensity in his face, his stringy long hair and his hulking gait, he is already bent over with guilt and doubt.

Andrew Davies, the man who sexed up Pride and Prejudice, has been brought on board and he is already bent on butching it up.

Holzhauer was already bent on cracking Craig's single-game record the moment he got the call from producers asking him to appear on the show.

But it's a bit more surprising that some iPads are already bent out of the box.

But when the time comes for him to fib a bit, he goes and tells Cersei (Lena Headey) he's already bent the knee to Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and can't uphold his end of the bargain.

So, Bayh is a "big deficit hawk" whose idea of "coming to grips" with deficits is to blithely assert the primacy of a war that he can't build a case for -- at the expense of other programs in the budget that he won't build a case against, other than to suggest that they are getting in the way of paying for the war, the cost of which he's already bent on pretending doesn't exist.

When strong binding occurs and the working stroke is initiated the force is applied axially with a minimal torque but the lever arm is already bent azimuthally.