Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They said independence would allow Puerto Rico to determine its economic future and choose its own trading partners. They also gave culturalreasons for their bent towards Puerto Ricanindependence...
This is not say that Campbell is an android bent on winning and nothing else. As he said, he leaves his testiness on the court...
West's intellectual interests--he has written widely on contemporary sociological and political issues--and activist bent will answer those student concerns, Afro-American studies professors...
...collapse of the Soviet Union, which has left Russia suspended between communism and democracy, words become elastic. Either they stand for something that has yet to exist, or their meaning is bent to meet the objectives of warring political factions. Here is a short guide to Russia's propaganda campaign...
...military commanders who are supposed to be enforcing the U.N.-sanctioned cease-fire. At least that's what Georgian officials and CIA sources charge. A minority of only 17% in their own homeland, the Abkhazians have turned to Russia for help. Georgians are convinced that vindictive Russian army officers, bent on taking revenge for the role Shevardnadze played in the collapse of the Soviet empire, are providing battlefield intelligence plus Russian Grad missiles and SU-25 fighters to the Abkhazians, who previously were armed with shotguns and hunting rifles. Outside observers suspect that assistance comes from free-lancing local commanders...