An important implication of the two basic causal principles, a degree of self-determination and causal influence, is that God influences but does not determine other events (2004, 43).
The likely quid pro quo for increased Scottish autonomy carries a gloomy prognosis, despite the hope that a degree of self-determination for the UK's constituent parts could provide a psychological and economic boost.
What finally brought a degree of self-determination and stability to the Balkans were prosperity and the prospect of becoming full-fledged members of the European community of nations.
It is also that the counter-voice of more progressive economists is not heard in the same volume and with the same confidence and authority; and is not heard because those counter-voices are not raised with a similar degree of determination and regularity.
Demand an extraordinary degree of determination and organization from someone intent on committing a violent act, and the odds that the violent act will take place are radically reduced, in many cases to zero.
"I think there was probably a degree of steel and determination from there quite early, overlaid with a desire to keep people engaged and happy," she says in a short documentary to be released by the Church of England on YouTube.
But even as Scotland has regained a degree of political self-determination, its sporting attainments have been in inverse proportion to its political success.
As unlikely as it may seen to Western feminists who have long associated domestic servitude with female oppression, Saudi culture objects to pictures of women in Ikea catalogues because of a niggling suspicion that such images would promote a degree of female self-determination.
Hustle, imagination, a willingness to indulge a degree of hedonism and a determination to fulfill a romantic conception of itself have helped Dubai prosper.
We associate Pietersen's big innings with attacking strokes, such is his genius, but it's not entirely unusual to see him play with a degree of caution and fierce determination to reach three figures.
