All this time the ex was aware of the connection we had made and was intent on coming between us. |
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But perhaps now we'll be given overdue respite from the rantings of those intent on persuading us he was some kind of miracle-worker. |
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Then again, if he is so intent on saving face, on keeping his gentlemanly reputation, why isn't he here? |
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But now that he's king of the hill in the digital-music market, Jobs seems intent on grabbing share with a vengeance. |
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She's not exactly royalty, but is right up there in the body of the kirk, intent on killing as many werewolves as possible. |
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Along comes a referee intent on making peace but instead of getting both sides to kiss and make up the peacemaker only exacerbates the situation. |
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Right or left, he is intent on putting his best foot forward and leaving nightmare stories behind. |
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Police say thieves are most intent on stealing audio equipment followed by car parts, including parcel shelves, wheel trims and gear knobs. |
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Such a scenario is meat and drink to the increasing band of media knockers seemingly intent on dismissing Bolton's chances of avoiding the drop. |
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Jinx lunged forward, intent on grabbing her arm and wresting the glasses from her. |
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Evil Laura won't slow down, and near the end of the race I am intent on lapping Lauren. |
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Perhaps we have stumbled upon a party intent on ambushing us and raiding our lands. |
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He was very intent on this task, as if he fancied himself a latter-day St. Francis. |
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He has secured planning permission to develop the house and grounds, but is intent on also converting the castle into an annex of the hotel. |
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The central character is Vendice, intent on revenging the death of his mistress, poisoned by the lecherous old duke. |
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For young consumers intent on immediately customizing their new rides, that extra money might turn into the most powerful incentive of all. |
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The only differences between their eyes were that one was dark green, while the other one was aqua blue, very blue, and very intent on her. |
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Edward I was equally intent on exerting his superior lordship over Scotland. |
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Like Anima, Immaterial can be extremely demanding if the listener is intent on attending to each detail. |
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They were intent on driving the Portuguese out of this tropical paradise and claiming it for themselves. |
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Bluegrass, once so studiously ignored by Nashville tastemakers intent on erasing the roots of country music, has come into its own. |
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He glanced back to where his wife was having to use her hands sometimes to scrabble up the steep climb, eyes intent on the rock face. |
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So he started the second half intent on spraying line drives all over the park and relying on his speed by banging balls into the ground. |
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But to the mindset of today's European leaders and commentators, America is a barbarian nation intent on world domination. |
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A businesswoman was sectioned by rivals intent on seizing her financial interests. |
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For those intent on thrill-seeking, snow-blading is another emerging snow sport. |
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With The Invisible Man, he was intent on distancing himself as much as possible from the darkness of his past. |
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Eight hours earlier I had left Dublin, intent on beating the morning traffic up the N1 en route to a meeting in Belfast. |
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According to his tip, they were intent on detonating a dirty bomb in Boston. |
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Pushing for direct links amounts to toadying to capitalists intent on exploiting the China market, and risks the future of this nation's workers. |
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Once again Tone seems intent on radically messing around with institutions that, until he interfered, used to function reasonably well. |
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So I tootled over to Minehead, parked, and strolled down to W.H.Smith's, intent on buying a Guardian newspaper. |
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And yet it's also just a part of a pleasurable little scene between two performers intent on topping one another with their jokes and gags. |
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People start running towards us from both directions, clearly intent on rescue. |
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A young girl, intent on her guitar-playing, with a sun-reddened face and wind-tangled, light-shot hair, is transfigured by her own music. |
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The former group are intent on making mischief, the latter on making meaning out of an event which still has none. |
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The cracking of stock-whips among the tree-ferns near may cause the lonely hut dweller to swing the billy, intent on hospitable thoughts. |
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As he is spotted by the police troopers they move in, apparently intent on forceful arrest, but a fleet-footed dash carries him safely away. |
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If Swindon council really is intent on saving money, it could do worse than start by looking at its advertising policy. |
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He landed, with a small group of armed colleagues, intent on winning the local garrison for the Bonapartist cause. |
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The sport, also known as boules, is a fast-growing pastime as Quebecers increasingly become intent on the art of tossing a ball near a wood peg. |
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Tyler set down the basket and unrolled the blanket, intent on setting things up himself. |
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As judicious middle class social climbers, they are intent on providing their daughter and son with a good match for their marriages. |
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A large majority of us were intent on watching the game and drinking our soju or beer. |
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On a sour note, however, a small minority are intent on putting the future of the lake in jeopardy by their illegal actions. |
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Many people are disappointed that the US is intent on spending billions of dollars on manned space flights. |
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Some become intent on destroying Gulliver for making such a bold statement, while others support him vehemently. |
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Down the coast at my Tulum cabana I peer out from the heat of the midday sun at a tourist pottering with intent on the beach. |
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He stole into the abbey in the dead of night, intent on stealing a personal memento of Scotland's greatest king. |
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We can understand the reluctance of hotels to take on groups of young men intent on a wild stag weekend. |
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Yet he seemed intent on alienating the very industry that had nurtured his awe-inspiring talent. |
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Flanked by a coterie of burly henchmen, the Russian oligarch promptly takes to one of the pitches intent on some shooting practice. |
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The Democratic Party is intent on maintaining Carhart and the whole panoply of current abortion rights, without stint or moderation. |
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He and later strategists were intent on waging a type of war based on rapid, decisive maneuver. |
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The government was intent on reducing the number of firearms, clamping down on illegal drugs and substance abuse. |
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While the government is intent on clamping down on truancy, it is preventing other children from attending school with equal vigour. |
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He has been, in effect, strip-mining the emotional responses of blue-collar men to the problems his own administration is so intent on causing. |
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But like many young talents, he fell victim to an overbearing and ambitious parent, intent on living through his son. |
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However, guys, if the little lady is intent on catching a chick flick, you could do a lot worse. |
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Needing a bigger site but intent on staying in the neighbourhood, the Boykiws surveyed the options. |
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The company seems intent on hosing down informed public discussion about its long term plans, and the company's responsibilities to the region. |
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The Bush administration appears intent on an imperial Pax Americana based on U.S. military supremacy. |
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The bar staff seem more intent on having shots themselves than actually serving customers, and the crowd is too cliquey. |
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Militant anarchists intent on violence broke away from peaceful demonstrators and left a trail of destruction. |
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Labour tenants, intent on salvaging some of their status as peasants, were often reluctant workers. |
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The wind had shut it as if intent on immuring her infant from all calamities. |
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But this administration seems intent on doing it in the most reckless, foolhardy and impetuous manner possible. |
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With shaking hands, he pulled the criss-crossing fastenings loose, far too intent on the task because of the fear he felt. |
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But he seemed intent on pretending that my come-hither look was nothing more than admiration of his impressive portfolio, which frankly it was. |
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The latter system has been dogged by complaints that it can too easily be abused by people intent on fraud. |
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Despite being hit by an inflated projectile, he is intent on risking more close encounters in the same way. |
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Thomas had her pinioned on the bed and was intent on making good his promise. |
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I suspect it was a field mouse lost on an urban mission, rather than some rodent-like creature intent on taking over. |
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They drew brightly decorated swords from the sheaths, and fiercely struck the Assyrian warriors, those intent on aggression. |
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Worse than practicing bad journalism, Isaacson seems intent on achieving what can only be called a tour de force of pitifulness. |
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He said he was intent on protecting direct payments to Ireland which were worth 2 billion euro annually. |
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Chip's face was firm and Kim could tell he was intent on keeping himself above water. |
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According to reports, the accidents were caused by a man who was intent on killing himself. |
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I was intent on giving a few of my friends some motivation to get them done early. |
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What Wales didn't have was a confidence that reflected their ability or a culture that was intent on building that confidence. |
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Now, decades since those heady days, two Irish businessmen are intent on waging their own space race. |
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He also warned their opposition could backfire because he was now intent on deregulating the restaurant sector. |
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It is also the only music station which is not intent on fleecing 16 to 24-year-olds. |
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But the contest was far from over as the two international challengers were intent on playing their hands late. |
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And no matter what people say she is quite intent on fulfilling that dream. |
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The assumption is that the Bank of England is intent on tightening policy over the coming months, but its decisions will depend on the data. |
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His face was stony, eyes intent on what he was doing, his fingers racing almost invisibly across the control surface. |
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Once their nesting is over, this ruse will not work, so one intent on rousing a rail in the fall must either wade or pole a boat through a marsh. |
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Director Paul Anderson appears intent on cornering the market when it comes to computer game-based adaptations. |
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Sargon seems intent on regaining a corporeal body, but is satisfied living as a spirit at the end of the episode. |
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Which is a shame, because the Independent seem intent on reminding him what a fruitloop his dad is at every opportunity. |
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Instead of importing every item in exchange for oil, the government is intent on producing its own manufactured products. |
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Needless to say, the statement roused a feisty spirit intent on proving her husband wrong. |
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And they seemed intent on depluming the bird world too, particularly ostriches, who had better hide more than their heads in the future. |
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In days gone by it was not unusual to see people intent on playing golf walking from town to the golf club. |
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The film opens with Lloyd clutching a briefcase containing one of the diamonds, intent on preventing Max and Lola from purloining it. |
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Stalin has metamorphosed into a totalitarian dictator intent on conquest, and the storm clouds of a new conflict gather. |
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Rather, it seemed intent on issuing diktats to which they were expected to conform. |
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Her face was intent on the Caddy, and it was with some effort that she directed her attention towards him. |
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What we have here are certain individuals intent on disarraying the public gravitas of things. |
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I am far more worried about the way that all sides seem intent on watching political life go down the gurgler. |
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Ever the inquiring mind, the Scot was intent on explaining the existence of giants. |
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We trust that the courts will not allow the first of these matters to be abused by those intent on disrupting the arbitral process. |
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Teams intent on double-teaming the Spurs' big men risk leaving someone else open on the perimeter. |
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Nobody's evil here, except for a few rotten Templars intent on picking a fight. |
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The French socialists, on the other hand, were intent on stirring up revolutionary agitation. |
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Even so I seemed at every point of contact to be surrounded by abrasive people intent on disturbing my peace, my comfort, and my equable nature. |
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She sat in queen-like fashion on the kitchen stool, looking faintly disapproving and intent on examining her newly painted nails. |
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The fact that our Council is intent on putting houses on this land has pushed the price of acquisition well beyond its unimproved value. |
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Residents have complained that the area has become run-down, suffers at the hands of thugs intent on joyriding and burglary. |
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There's the co-star, intent on doing his own stunts, who ends up the victim of an unfortunate mishap involving a jump from a twenty-foot ledge. |
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It looked as though New York's City Hall had been overtaken by smokers intent on taunting Michael Bloomberg one last time. |
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And He came into the stock exchange, where He found them intent on the rape and pillage of the peoples of the world, and he caused all trading to stop. |
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The marketing strategies that Sainsbury outlined in today's report would suggest that it is intent on repositioning itself as a provider of quality foods. |
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This flaw in an otherwise laudable health strategy must be addressed swiftly before it becomes a soft target for those intent on undermining the overall plan. |
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While El Socialista and other socialist periodicals were appealing to working-class Spaniards, anarchism, intent on capturing the same audience, was also taking root in Spain. |
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I found him intractable, dominating and intent on lecturing everyone about the way to do things, which in his case meant only the way they'd done things in the fifties. |
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Burley understands the mood though, and is intent on lifting it. |
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Dodge has also had something like 20 museum shows and is intent on establishing a museum that would also show his 225 posters. |
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Instead, the way they are being sold for a song, it looks as if the government is intent on privatising profits and nationalising losses, they say. |
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A twinned, imagined narrative of a fictitious Fidel Castro and a Miami exile intent on assassinating him. |
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Akysonov has a gang of fascistic ultras known as the Lupine Hordes, which are intent on invading Moscow and restoring Holy Russia. |
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Yet over and over Mr. Pawlenty has been intent on trying to offer us pizzazz. |
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Increasingly, he is intent on inventing new structures, combining forms that are right-angled and curved, solid and open, linear and planar, volumetric and void. |
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As we drew closer, the fishermen became more intent on posing for our pictures than fishing. |
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She stood and walked down the groin to the beach, and intent on finishing her own run, ran in the same direction as Crane, towards the Nelson house at the top of the hill. |
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Then he closeted himself in the bathroom, intent on a shower. |
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It's being played at a terrific pace by two teams intent on attacking. |
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The forwards also seemed intent on glory as several rolling mauls were stopped dead in their tracks when the wingers were standing idle and unmarked on the flanks. |
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York had barely threatened and 14-0 seemed a big half-time lead to turn over against a form team intent on avenging their early-season Huntington Stadium hammering. |
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He ignores the weather, intent on arriving at his second destination. |
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In fact, we don't know exactly how to interpret this figure, so crudely carved and so intent on calling attention to the material facture of its surfaces. |
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He is intent on making people look good but not necessarily beautiful in his work and achieves this by capturing secretive, edgy or cagey subjects. |
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In the marketplaces, vegetable sellers pile their wares into colourful pyramids, shouting at passing donkeys intent on stealing a mouthful of spinach. |
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Its iron clad links to Big Pharma and taxpayer funded agencies intent on screening the entire American population for mental illness are terribly dangerous. |
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He had done well enough to become a Star Man, finishing 43rd in his class, and was intent on becoming an infantryman. |
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Second, many advisers are still intent on chasing high returns. |
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If they are intent on doing something, then they will do it. |
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Those who erected barricades were more intent on securing the sympathy of opposition politicians for immediate objectives than taking charge of government. |
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He explained that Feinberg had buttonholed him inside, intent on reiterating the importance of context. |
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The story is intent on delving into the core of what it means to be human and what kind of base behaviors we are susceptible to, both good and bad. |
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It was as if her logical mind was fully intent on rebelling against her. |
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As Ron mentions me extensively, and seems intent on discrediting the facts I have presented to your readers beforehand, please allow me to offer the following brief analysis. |
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Along the way they catch the unwelcome and decidedly nonsupernatural attention of a carload of macho young men who pursue the two lovers, intent on violence. |
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The City boss is now intent on selecting as many players as possible that he can rely on for consistency of performance during the vital last four matches of the season. |
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More generally, they regarded him as unsympathetic to popular aspirations and intent on imposing a restrictive arrangement with precipitate haste. |
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The professor had shopped for more conventionally built podiums but was intent on finding something more unusual and keeping his office decor consistent. |
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Walker is intent on maintaining muscle tone in his lower body. |
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The trio seem increasingly intent on going for the jugular, asserting themselves aggressively and explosively in a manner entirely befitting a band whose home is Glasgow. |
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A gaggle of adolescent dragons intent on flame-broiling every goat in Meereen. |
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The steps he took might appear simple and obvious in hindsight, but they were far from easy at a hidebound institution seemingly intent on writing its own obituary. |
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Yet without money, without access, and without readership, that history McMillan seems intent on making will be absent. |
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He is admirably intent on rescuing literature from the arcane rituals of US academia and restoring it to a wider audience. |
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Having utterly flopped in the Republican primaries, the former Utah governor now seems intent on trashing the party. |
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A simple man, clothed if not in rags then certainly not far from it, he tramps his way along the street, feet keeping time to the music, intent on his playing. |
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Today, Dolly preceded me, and there came another great kerfuffle as she thundered over to the fountain, intent on murdering the avian intruder who was defiling her property. |
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Those who had stayed away from the match in Tuam, where Roscommon's support was overwhelmed by the home side, were intent on making good on this occasion. |
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He had hit his ball to within a short wedge of the 350-yard par-four hole, and was intent on getting his score down to nine under after a welter of missed opportunities. |
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Though higher spending was the main focus of the expert group, they also recommended a greater focus on developing a culture intent on innovating the economy. |
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Together they join a former mujaheddin leader as he takes a raggle-taggle force east, intent on establishing a regional base for grabbing greater power. |
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On the right a male juggler is intent on keeping three balls in the air. |
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He has gone, one might say, from explicator to gnostic namer, from the secular, discursive Horatian thinker-poet to a more compressed priest-like voice, intent on Mystery. |
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The couple are intent on keeping Lucy in touch with her roots. |
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Our lack of a bill of rights makes it extremely difficult for judges to protect our freedoms from a rapacious government intent on destroying them. |
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But Than DAR ignored them, intent on a traditional Buddhist funeral for her husband in Rangoon. |
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Some ungodly evil force stepped in, intent on bringing about his death. |
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We had a choir director intent on unlearning our juvenile inflections. |
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He plays a 21 st-century courier, who can download computer information directly into his brain, on the run from a variety of nasties intent on pulling his plug. |
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Increasingly under pressure from all sides, the military dictatorship is intent on using the trial to completely discredit the former prime minister and his government. |
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He might be a Father to Confederation, but like all Reformers, he was intent on destroying the offspring, was a hot-headed revolutionary, a brawler and corruptionist. |
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In the past 20 years, employees have lost right after right to Government-backed bosses intent on squeezing more work for less pay out of their workforces. |
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There were bowler hats, striped shirts, braces, dress-suits and stilettos jostling past us on all species of worker, all entirely intent on their destination. |
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The student who enters grad school intent on becoming a traditional humanist is the student who will be labelled as hopelessly unsophisticated by her peers and her professors. |
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Employing a designer, meanwhile, is often perceived as an expensive luxury indulged in by ladies who lunch and those intent on keeping up with the Joneses. |
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An early example of this was Bizarre, a show that seemed intent on shocking, not least by a liberal sprinkling of the f-word in its irreverent sketches and lampoons. |
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Like testers intent on detecting feeble-mindedness among students, immigrants, and soldiers, child placers welcomed intelligence as a proxy for social status. |
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Foreign investors quaked, worrying that a group of ex-KGB hardliners intent on renationalizing the Russian economy had seized control of the Kremlin. |
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For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children? |
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There may have been some unreported swims of the Channel, by people intent on entering Britain in circumvention of immigration controls. |
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But when the school bell rings, the toys learn they're shut in with the centre's whiniest brats who are intent on breaking everything in sight. |
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Some brought rocks and bricks, intent on clashing with the police. |
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However, postmen in Wales could soon be able to fight back with a special spray which has the effect of disorientating dogs intent on attack. |
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But he deserves far greater respect from the handful of idiots intent on sullying the Tour de France almost as much as the dopers. |
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It is 10 months since they lost to the Latics in last season's final, something that the visiting supporters were intent on reminding everyone. |
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At the time she was preparing a quinceanera for her oldest daughter, intent on giving her teenager what she herself had never had. |
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Here was the archetypal terrace hard knock, a Middlesbrough bootboy intent on causing trouble, who instead became a figure of authority. |
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In 1163 Henry returned to England, intent on reforming the role of the royal courts. |
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John Swire invested in the Ocean Steam Ship Company, which was intent on taking Liverpool-Far East trade from the tea clippers. |
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Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England. |
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She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the chorus line at the London Palladium. |
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After generations of incessant warfare, Gruffudd began the reconstruction of Gwynedd, intent on bringing stability to his country. |
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When Welsh returned to America he was intent on fighting Ritchie, having failed to meet both Nelson and Wolgast. |
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At the same time Vitellius and his armies in Germania had risen in revolt and prepared to march on Rome, intent on overthrowing Otho. |
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In 716, Chilperic and Ragenfrid together led an army into Austrasia intent on seizing the Pippinid wealth at Cologne. |
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By 1817, Mission San Rafael was established and padres began journeying to Point Reyes, intent on enticing the Coast Miwok to the mission. |
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It is not clear exactly when Henry changed his mind on the issue as he grew more intent on a second marriage. |
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Lace and ruff collars were unavoidable, and presented a formidable challenge to painters intent on realism. |
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He was so intent on being a good bowler that, unsatisfied with the grip, he had his bowling ball redrilled. |
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A new type of ruler emerged intent on breaking the power of the aristocrats and reforming their state's bureaucracies. |
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After a year he resigned his scholarship and left Oxford for London, intent on becoming a writer. |
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Tory Euro-sceptics destroyed John Major's government and now seem intent on destroying Cameron. |
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When Parr died after childbirth on 5 September 1548, he renewed his attentions towards Elizabeth, intent on marrying her. |
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A mentally-disturbed architect killed his wife on Dartmoor, believing she had become a black witch intent on taking his soul and his life, a court was told yesterday. |
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He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge. |
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As the Lancastrian army advanced southwards, a wave of dread swept London, where rumours were rife about savage northerners intent on plundering the city. |
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Uruguay were quick to the ball, strong in the tackle and seemed intent on showing they were a better team than had been apparent in their defeat to Costa Rica. |
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Still intent on entering Parliament, Pitt, with the help of his university comrade, Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland, secured the patronage of James Lowther. |
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The 2011 election saw a decisive victory for the SNP which was able to form a majority government intent on delivering a referendum on independence. |
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During Spanish and Mexican rule, this remote lagoon was used by American, British, and Russian smugglers intent on avoiding tariffs and regulations. |
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Basescu, the former ship captain, appears intent on keelhauling his opponents, thwarting their attempts to have their favourite nominated for prime minister. |
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For many this is an empowering experience, the opposite of a courtroom where they might be re-victimized in an adversarial system intent on discrediting them. |
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The powerful Wilson Palacios is one of the players the fans will be hoping to shine, while veteran Carlos Pavon is intent on ending his international career in style. |
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To people with brain cells, she is undoubtedly the weakest link for not wanting to find out more about these barbaric blood sports she is intent on supporting. |
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Although France seemed willing to accept IRBM bases and a tactical weapons stockpile on its soil, it also seemed intent on obtaining an independent nuclear force. |
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