Sentence examples for world intent from inspiring English sources

Fiercely independent, all of Evans's characters struggle for a place in a world intent on fencing them out.

This is a major perk, since carpool violations (like so much else in a world intent on improving efficiency and sustainability) are punishable by imprisonment.

"Unfortunately, an opportunity was missed to send an unambiguous message to the malcontents of the world intent on terrorizing the United States and its citizens abroad," Mr. Kavaler said.

Lynn — who led an early investment in the online lender LendingClub while with her previous employer, Morgenthaler Ventures — remembers well the language that the company and competitors like Prosper used and the boldness with which they launched into the world, intent on cutting out the middleman.

Every country in the world intent upon growing its economic pie puts private equity to work building infrastructure.

Likewise, Vladimir Putin rails against a US-led "world order" intent on crushing Russia, and he has emptied the state of all checks and balances.

Nowhere is this more visible than in contemporary art.Primary coloursThe past 25 years have seen more than 100 major new museums built around the world, each intent on acquiring, on average, 2,000 pieces, says Don Thomson, author of "The $12m Stuffed Shark", a new book about the economics of contemporary art.

But the resistance from some libraries, like the Boston Public Library and the Smithsonian Institution, suggests that many in the academic and nonprofit world are intent on pursuing a vision of the Web as a global repository of knowledge that is free of business interests or restrictions.

He said that a lot of last-minute work was still being done in preparation for the protests against the forum, which demonstrators say is an elite gathering of 3,000 corporate executives and world leaders intent on controlling the global economy.

Or by the notion that those who call themselves "hackers" are advertising to the world their intent to break the law?

By the way, if email is dead, why is it that every social/local/mobile app in the world is intent on notifying you via email every time a butterfly flaps its wings?