In the wake of the Paris attacks of January, Kassovitz has come out and said that it is now time to make La Haine 2. This has been an unusual volte-face, given that Kassovitz has until now described La Haine as a "curse" and determinedly rejected suggestions that he should make a follow-up.
Holland welcomes the eclecticism promoted by the late DJ John Peel, who determinedly fished on the wilder shores of experimental music, and by the broader appetite for world music that has flowed from increased foreign travel and greater play time on the radio.
How it is that one of the best beaches on an island which has bought determinedly into tourism has no big hotels?
While Hockney is determinedly looking forward, for the rest of us there is a satisfying opportunity for retrospection with a new feature-length BFI/BBC documentary about his life and work.
In a homily delivered without notes, quietly but determinedly, Francis urged the church to focus on the Gospel and "always walk in the presence of the Lord" to avoid becoming, in effect, "a compassionate NGO".
Democratic lawmakers, too, know the determinedly friendly embrace of corporate lobbyists.
"The Turks, of course," huffs Fatma Ekinci, a gnarly grandmother, who lost "two saplings" (a son and a daughter) in the 28 year-long conflict.Yet members of Turkey's largest pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), which has close links to the rebels, have embraced a determinedly conciliatory tone.
Politics, which has long governed the defence part of its business, has now determinedly entered the civil side as well.The first to fly off the handle was the boss of Airbus Industrie, Jean Pierson.
The constitutional court upheld opposition arguments that a first round of balloting to elect Mr Gul had been invalid, on the ground that parliament lacked a quorum, forcing Mr Erdogan to call fresh elections four months ahead of schedule.Turkey's friends agree that as a seasoned diplomat with determinedly pro-Western views, Mr Gul would make a fine head of state.
Enthusiasts reckon that 14 of the 15 EU members could be in the euro by 2002, with only the Danes determinedly aloof.
Philipp Blom's latest book tells the story of a set of remarkable individuals on the radical fringes of the 18th-century European Enlightenment, whose determinedly atheistic and materialist philosophies denied the existence of God or the soul.
