He seemed to be bent on preserving his independence and his right to favor the weekly winner.
Mr Hollande may still be bent on his new 75% top tax rate, yet on other matters the tone has changed.
Both are likely to be big spenders bent on promiscuous and dangerous war-making abroad.
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If the U.S. government cannot come to grips with the reality that authoritative Islam is rooted in Shariah, that Shariah demands its adherents engage in supremacist jihad, and that jihad is - pursuant to Shariah - intended to inflict terror on its victims, it will be wholly unable to defeat an enemy bent on its destruction.
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If legal efforts to nullify Chertoff's waivers fail, Congressional repeal of the waiver authority may turn out to be the only conceivable option for those bent on tying the hands of the DHS on construction of the border fence.
For more than 25 years America has been attacked and continues to be attacked by Jihadist terrorist groups bent on the destruction of our way of life.
The breadth of the study and involvement of an independent foundation without a political bent on fracking is thought to be able to trump other, conflicting studies performed so far.
There has been no indication, so far, what those concrete steps might be or whether Mr Netanyahu is truly bent on getting a deal.
In his desire to be the un-Bush, President Obama seems bent on waging this war in the "AfPak theater" without ennobling it, without giving it a name or a stirring call.
It was true that quite a few of the sheep seemed to be hobbling on three legs, or half kneeling, their front legs bent at the joint.
And the opposition has been confronted with the unthinkable by its own leader, who seems bent on averting further suffering in a conflict which appears to be bedding down into a protracted, gory stalemate.
Indeed, the decisive assistance France gave to the American revolutionaries did not reflect affection for those bent on ending royal misrule a phenomenon its own king would be murderously subjected to in short order.
It behooves us, therefore, to be making a redoubled effort to counter our immediate enemies: adherents to a totalitarian ideology bent on world domination and the destruction of all who stand in the way of that goal.
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Unable to straighten the thing out and worried that his payment would be jeopardized he proceeded down the flight line in a panic and bent the five needles on the remaining fighters to match the first.
In contrast to the present hero, a scalawag bent on improving himself, Garland's heroine wants what everyone wants to be loved, to feel safe, to find her heart's desire.
If the conventional wisdom is correct, today's presidential election will be tightly contested and ultimately decided by the electorate's concerns about winning the war against terrorists bent on our destruction.
One, as Mr Bush has argued, is to build limited missile defences which, if they could be made to work reliably (still far from clear), could help prevent a hostile regime bent on bother from miscalculating that a threat of a missile strike on New York or Los Angeles, or possibly London, Paris, Berlin or Tokyo, could make aggression pay.
Feeling faintly sick, I joined in as we stretched, bent, lunged and jogged on the spot, wondering why it was that I seemed to be the only one worn out by the warmup alone.
And while Aaronson will sell space to long-distance carriers, he is betting a new class of customer will emerge--companies bent on creating and selling new uses for all that fiber--and that Aerie will be the low-cost provider.
But she snaps out of her dreaminess to become an impulsive young woman bent on revenge, hacking at her hair with her sword in the hope that she will be taken more seriously by the men whose world she has chosen to share.
While reports of the fighting could not be independently confirmed, the Syrian government has said repeatedly that its forces are fighting armed terrorist gangs and foreign fighters bent on destabilizing the country.
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