bent upon

Dukas’ source for “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” was a poem by Goethe that warns of what can happen when a magical device, in this case a broom bent upon destruction, gets into a young apprentice’s incompetent hands.

Other nations also seek the capabilities the two Koreas are bent upon acquiring.

They’re “separatists bent upon hoarding their memories and keeping their secrets.”

Victor Lebrun, who happened to be in the city, bent upon relaxation, had accepted with alacrity.

State GOP chair Allen West greeted news of the state’s census count last month by comparing incoming Democratic voters to “locusts, bent upon destruction.”