Sentence examples for Personal determination from inspiring English sources

That took strategic vision, political ruthlessness and personal determination.

It's a love story and a tale of personal determination and courage.

Obama underlined his personal determination to see the euro crisis solved after talks on Sunday morning with Merkel.

Herodotus tried to get the best information available, Kapuscinski notes, "and, given the epoch, this speaks to a tremendous expenditure of effort and to great personal determination...

Yes, that pursuit involves torture, but also intelligence, personal determination and, ultimately, action – all of which Bigelow is well-equipped to convey.

Shackleton, whose expedition had the good fortune of being vividly documented by the photographer Frank Hurley, has seen his reputation soar in recent years -- from an overambitious explorer who led a botched attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent, to an admirable leader whose personal determination and courage saved the lives of all the men in his charge.

The Encyclopedia Britannica says that, the qualities that Garibaldi displayed skill as a general, extraordinary personal courage, determination never to surrender gave him a European reputation as a superman, the hero of two worlds.You also described as "illegal" Garibaldi's "invasion" of Sicily.

He said the revelations of US internet surveillance represented a "far-reaching interference with our basic democratic rights and personal self-determination", and that Merkel had failed to "protect German citizens' freedoms and interests".

Thus, just as we would consider it an egregious violation of an individual's personal self-determination if she had no choice but to marry the suitor of her father's choice, for instance, we should recognize that no political community is fully self-determining unless it has discretion over which potential immigrants to invite into its political community.

The article aims to prove the assumption that along with the known approaches to encouraging cultural diversity in education (critical, pluralistic, acculturation), a new methodological approach should be defined – that of forming the culturally-oriented world-view on the basis of personal self-determination in the traditional moral values, as represented in the national culture.

However, the Liverpool manager was keen to point out there is nothing personal in his determination to beat United again.