Bent on living a dream, Linus Hall quit his engineering job at Bridgestone Firestone in 2001.
They are bent on destroying the middle class and good a portion of our tax base.
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In fact, nations bent on acquiring such lethal weapons no longer have to develop them indigenously.
Denying that reality is presumably why the president is so bent on keeping him.
China, Russia and India are all bent on increasing their gold reserves by hundreds of tons.
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Some hot brands, such as Liz Claiborne, are bent on avoiding selling on the Web altogether.
Yet many observers believe the Tokat attack was staged by PKK hardliners bent on sabotaging peace.
When the Palestinians decided that they were no longer bent on its extirpation, Israel responded.
The exception is HP, but that is a company bent on recalibrating in a different direction.
Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, looks increasingly like a dynastic ruler bent on enriching his clan.
In his view, the Iranian regime isn't a "homogenous" revolutionary group bent on getting the bomb.
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Both are likely to be big spenders bent on promiscuous and dangerous war-making abroad.
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To judge by their most popular slogans, demonstrators across Iran are bent on regime change.
Declaring himself the victim of overbearing magistrates bent on ruining his career, he is carrying on.
Only a country bent on denying its political side could possibly object to this.
Undercover officers had to deter Moroccans and Turks who were now bent on attacking the English.
With Italy's Maghreb policy in disarray, the Northern League appears bent on making things worse.
The government is bent on ethnic cleansing of territory surrounding other, as yet unexploited, oil fields.
PA's leadership than a movement bent on establishing an alternative to its crumbling order.
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Others blamed renegade policemen bent on implicating Islamists and maintaining a state of fear.
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Ace is bent on revenge against former associates, and his plan includes an investment in the track.
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The Administration is bent on extending the ABM Treaty to include a ban on space-based missile defenses.
He seemed to be bent on preserving his independence and his right to favor the weekly winner.
The electorate is bent on subjecting politicians to all sorts of humiliating rituals before handing them power.
Now mobile phones with memory cards are the main target for Islamist militants bent on banishing music.
He echoes their philosophy of doing nothing to make China feel Taiwan is bent on permanent separation.
While speaking out for human rights, some organizations cynically support terrorists bent on mass killing of civilians.
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Dhani's father, Eddy, followed in his father's footsteps, figuring prominently in an organization bent on preaching Wahhabism.
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So, are we talking about a New Wave of movies bent on ripping open the Korean underbelly?
He narrowly survived a car bomb last month and blamed Russian security services bent on causing further instability.
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