Though written with charm and liveliness, they are unreliable as history because La Marche makes mistakes in chronology and was too resolutely devoted to the House of Burgundy to be objective, especially in his judgments on French policy.
Mr Maharaj - the official presidential spokesman - may not always pick up, but when he does, he remains courteous, canny and - the hallmark of his generation of cadres of the governing African National Congress (ANC), which fought racial oppression in South Africa - resolutely devoted to the party line.
They supported the confederation, occasionally shut the door to immigrants, and were resolutely, some would say slavishly, devoted to the British Empire and Canada's place in it.
The veteran playwright is Alan Ayckbourn, and the vehicle for his thoughts is his 52d play, a comedy called "Things We Do for Love". This comedy, directed by the author and opening tomorrow at the Gielgud Theater in the West End, stars Jane Asher as Barbara, a resolutely single woman who has devoted herself to her work and her boss.
It is not the proof of highest goodness never to have done wrong but it is a proof of it, sometime in one's career, to pause and ponder, to recognize the evil, to turn resolutely against it & devote the remainder of one's life to that only which is pure & exalted.
Vocabulary: devoted, proclaiming, broadsheet, refugees, illusions, mismatch, tabloids, affluent, mayhem, lament, din, daintily, canonized, resolutely, sustained Extension Activities: 1. Write a biography of Seth Lipsky, the new editor of The New York Sun.
The committee has also devoted many hours to developing the kind of bold but realistic recommendations that will foster the leadership and create the tools we need to move forward resolutely.
Although resolutely shunned by the cool-hunters of the print media – NME readers voted them the worst band in the world ("To be honest, it was flattering that someone hates you that much," Skarendahl says) – the band built a large and unusually devoted live following, with fans turning up to gigs dressed as characters from the group's quirky songs.
He devotes a large proportion of his time and energy now to coordinating this worldwide student movement, which remains, at his insistence, loosely organized and resolutely non-political.
