Tyrants pay little heed to eloquent oratory, but they take notice in the face of resolve.
PAGE C1 Major Test for Iraqi Guard Motivated by poverty or patriotism but attacked by insurgents who see them as collaborators, Iraq's security forces are facing a test of resolve as the Jan . 30elections draw near.
The U.S. provided Chen with cellphones to keep in touch with supporters, and even to call in to a Congressional hearing — and in the face of American resolve, the Chinese let it all happen.
Advocates of American power, Fukuyama argues, drew too broad a lesson from the relative ease of regime change in the former "evil empire". As they would learn in Iraq, not every totalitarian menace melts away so obligingly in the face of American resolve.
Ukraine's new government was facing a stern test of resolve after a nationalist Ukrainian MP physically assaulted the head of a television station in Kiev and forced him to write a resignation letter.
Some show faces full of resolve, like the portrait of Captain Rochelle Jones, known as Rocky, the highest-ranking woman in the department.
Every reformist president has faced an early test of resolve, usually a partisan one.
"This is no time to in any way signal a lack of resolve in the face of these Russian actions," she said.
It's not worship of a sun god so much as a demonstration of resolve in the face of reason, by way of climbing into a coffin-like radiation box, with arms outstretched, in anticipation of a better you.
But then a different look crosses his face, a look of absolute resolve, and I honestly think he's going to make it happen.
The controversial technique, which has allowed companies such as Burger King to move abroad by buying a smaller foreign rival, had become a major test of White House resolve in the face of a failure to agree a legislation solution in Congress.
