Sentence examples for were also bent from inspiring English sources

Flush with earlier profits, executives of the companies were also bent on building bigger businesses, said David O. Lewis, an insurance analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta.

Window and doorframes were also bent.   2 February: Shockwaves from two explosive eruptions broke windows in Yoshinomoto, Miyakonojo City, and in Kirishima (one person injured, see Table 7).

When the flagellum was forcibly bent, as occurred during the natural cycle of beating, the resilin was also bent, but then resumed its natural shape when the force was removed and the flagellum itself returned to its normal shape.

Carroll is also bent on tormenting and, ultimately, destroying Hardy, who put him away – and then slept with his wife.

It is also bent on raising the military cost to America of defending the island in any future crisis.

To Israelis, Sheik Yassin was an archterrorist whose group not only rejected Israel's right to exist, but was also bent on its destruction.

Officials are also bent on settling scores with Mr Yunus, who oversees an ungainly charitable empire that includes a telecoms company as well as the bank.

Having joined Team Sky, and being determined to add to the 20 stage victories he has already secured in his staggering career on the Tour de France, Cavendish is also bent on Olympic gold in the road race.

Because the central government was also bent on developing the country's interior, employers in coastal cities like Ningbo had to offer ever greater incentives to lure workers from home and retain them.

As for Lorna, the heroine of "Post and Beam," she marries a mathematics professor and leaves her childhood world behind; when her cousin Polly, who is also bent on escape, arrives for a visit, she is silently annoyed: "It seemed that in the years since Lorna got married Polly had stayed still," Ms. Munro writes.

Similarly, the Sb- and Bi-induced bands are also bent on the bottom of the conduction band.