| The Democrats remain hell-bent on convincing the American public that they are unfit to govern. | 
 
 
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| Some people seem hell-bent on misinterpreting you, even people you thought weren't inclined to having jerky knees. | 
 
 
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| Europe meets Asia and antiquity meets a young, throbbing, vibrant city as hell-bent on enjoyment and innovation as any city in the West. | 
 
 
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| Under his leadership the Conservatives would remain obsessed with Europe and hell-bent on tax cuts. | 
 
 
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| He led his team of skilful but unpredictable players to Portugal, hell-bent on adding to his formidable reputation. | 
 
 
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| He still had his arms swinging, his head looking forward, hell-bent on getting where he were going. | 
 
 
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| That would be entirely reasonable from their point of view, as we seem hell-bent on importing a culture they do not like and do not trust. | 
 
 
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| He expects a busy afternoon against a team hell-bent on making amends for last year's blip in an otherwise tremendous season. | 
 
 
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| Many of its practitioners seem hell-bent on building muscle mass at any and all costs. | 
 
 
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| Each side is hell-bent on refuting the other's arguments, rather than examining them dispassionately. | 
 
 
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| There was serious opposition, but it looked like the government was hell-bent on its plan. | 
 
 
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| Our federal government seems hell-bent on giving corporations rights and privileges that exceed those of individuals and governments. | 
 
 
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| Here, she plays an extreme introvert who's hell-bent on revenge. | 
 
 
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| Now it seems to be blowing cold on the missile shield, looks hell-bent on creating a European army and looks like it's abandoning Nato. | 
 
 
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| Kramer and his allies are hell-bent on drawing an unflattering picture of the candidate and his crew. | 
 
 
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| A player who was never allowed to scale the heights in his homeland, he is now returning as a crucial component of a team hell-bent on constant improvement. | 
 
 
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| Having to saddle up a mud-encrusted bike and ride hell-bent in inky blindness is a dicey proposition. | 
 
 
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| Similarly, if you're hell-bent on a marketing program, then the fishermen should support it with a per-pound charge. | 
 
 
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| Lastly, it will fuel claims that the EU is hell-bent on proclaiming a federal constitution with a charter as its first chapter. | 
 
 
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| Many Americans saw her as a calculating, cold egomaniac who was hell-bent on taking the presidency for herself. | 
 
 
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| In the foreground of this picture is a cowboy galloping hell-bent for election to head off the stampede. | 
 
 
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| While India has made the offer to end farm subsidies by 2013, the US seems hell-bent on increasing agricultural subsidies. | 
 
 
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| And all that stands in their way is a cop hell-bent on doing whatever it takes to solve the case and bring the TAKERS down. | 
 
 
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| Unfortunately the EU is hell-bent on trade-block-to-trade-block negotiations, and for this reason I abstained. | 
 
 
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| Diane and Paul Brown are hell-bent on creating a cosy environment in this smart split-level restaurant just off the High Street in Dunfermline. | 
 
 
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| In fact the entire year seems hell-bent on hurtling towards December 25 in a desperate, harried, headlong rush. | 
 
 
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| The intruders were hell-bent on taking that which never belonged to them. | 
 
 
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| It's pretty much a building site at the moment, but the country is hell-bent on bringing the very best companies out here to make it their Asian base. | 
 
 
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| The government seems hell-bent on expressing the idea that licences can be purchased like any stock on the stock market. | 
 
 
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| I think this guy is a religious fanatic and a Jesus freak, and he is just hell-bent on getting some sort of bizarro agenda through. | 
 
 
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| I have always been hell-bent on being a lady and I have always demanded respect. | 
 
 
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| They will be hell-bent on revenge after losing to Bradford on the final day of last season at Northcliffe. | 
 
 
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| While auditing a class taught by Robert Lowell at Boston University, Sylvia met another poet hell-bent on suicide, Anne Sexton. | 
 
 
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| The rest of society is hell-bent on spending money in other areas but, at the same time, those earning don't want any increase in their tax to pay for it all. | 
 
 
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| No one is saying you wake up every morning hell-bent on killing unarmed black kids. | 
 
 
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| Food stamps have already been cut, and congressional Republicans are hell-bent on cutting them further. | 
 
 
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| They are also hell-bent on seeking retribution against members who turn their backs on the gang or snitch to the police. | 
 
 
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| For a candidate whose opponents on the right were hell-bent on hanging the RINO label on him, it was a problem. | 
 
 
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| Their leader is a man who's hell-bent on overpopulating the planet. | 
 
 
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| In this scene, Edgardo and Enrico, both hell-bent on revenge, breathe fire at each other, and Donizetti responds with an appropriately militant duet for tenor and baritone. | 
 
 
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| He has made a career out of exploring the darker side of the human psyche, of exposing obsessive characters who seem hell-bent on self-destruction. | 
 
 
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| For here is a man who is a hypocrite, an influence-peddler, a racial mudslinger, hell-bent on being president of the United States. | 
 
 
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| Brienne demands the deformed, less savage Clegane brother fork her over, but he refuses, hell-bent on receiving his bounty. | 
 
 
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| Catcoin And so explains the birth of Catcoin, the latest creation hell-bent on knocking its canine counterpart off its perch. | 
 
 
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| France had been conquered in less than six weeks, America didn't like getting involved in world affairs, and Japan was a warlike nation hell-bent on conquest. | 
 
 
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| The council seems to be hell-bent on penalising the citizens of York, who are most affected by the scandalous parking charges imposed in the evening. | 
 
 
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| But they are hardly hell-bent on making converts. | 
 
 
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| They dropped harm reduction and are now hell-bent on the idea that they will eliminate any funding or support for any program that they deem to be under the category of harm reduction. | 
 
 
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| These are not folks who are simply hell-bent on causing wanton destruction in our communities, despite the advertisements we see in the mail from the government. | 
 
 
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| Yesterday's presentation by the U. S. to try to justify Bush's war that he is hell-bent to conduct absolutely does not meet any of those criteria. | 
 
 
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| We have President Milosevic who is hell-bent on promoting this conflict. | 
 
 
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| Are you tough enough to succeed in a close quarter battle as a member of a hard charging Delta Force assault team hell-bent on liberating the oppressed nation? | 
 
 
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| Psycho's secret mission will take him to the other side of the island on a ruthless pursuit of a North Korean general hell-bent on obtaining powerful technology. | 
 
 
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| Management at the CBC seems hell-bent on the elimination of regional programming and forcing more and more concessions from dedicated programmers. | 
 
 
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| Their biggest threat is the Builders, an ancient race of aliens hell-bent on annihilating the human race. | 
 
 
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| But perennial favorite Nicole Chaison, who self-publishes hausfrau Muthahzine, is hell-bent on changing all that. | 
 
 
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| At the time, project planners were hell-bent on sticking a shopping center underneath the school, and they carved away much of the natural topography in the process. | 
 
 
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| Cycling effortlessly between granite-hard drum excursions, creditable rapping and guitar riffage, the sinewy star seems hell-bent on vibing up the crowd. | 
 
 
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| Just as importantly, these two major powers appear to be hell-bent on usurping an authority which has stood us in good stead for more than half a century. | 
 
 
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| Yet our penny-pinching Chancellor is hell-bent on forcing through an extra 4p a litre hike next year, despite protests from his own party. | 
 
 
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| Someone, somewhere, every day of the week, seems hell-bent on vulgarising our game to the stage where its devotees cannot recognise it. | 
 
 
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| Like Caravaggio, he's a hell-bent verist with a renegade baroque sensibility. | 
 
 
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| And Tina, the scorned woman, makes a very sore loser, hell-bent on telling Carla all about their affair. | 
 
 
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| However, when Billy returns from rehab hell-bent on bloodshed and debauchery, Johnny finds himself in the middle of a vicious turf war with rival gangs for control of a city torn apart by violence and corruption. | 
 
 
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| I do not think there is any room for a lot more debate on NATO somehow being an aggressive force that is running hell-bent around the country trying to cause havoc and to wreak havoc in the countries of the world. | 
 
 
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| And now they fear Fischler, dubbed Captain Cockeye, is hell-bent on wiping out their industry. | 
 
 
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