The story of how they came to occupy a sand dune in Indiana is a testament both to the power of the exposition's modernist vision and to one man's determination to transform a marsh 60 miles from downtown Chicago into a thriving suburb.
His son Godfrey, in his determination to transform the club, and the surrounding village, into a world-class year-round resort, the St. Moritz of North America, managed to finagle government and Olympic officials into granting Lake Placid the third Winter Games.
Centred entirely on the minute detail of one man's life, the book's painstaking and often painful unfolding of his haphazard progress through life demonstrated her determination to transform banality into something remarkable, to commemorate the complexity and strange beauty of the everyday.
Obama's juggernaut passage of universal health care, despite severe budget and employment problems and the loss of his Senate super majority, bears witness to his determination to transform the United States into something more closely resembling Europe.
Khomeini himself proved unwavering in his determination to transform Iran into a theocratically ruled Islamic state.
The factory is the latest investment that underscores Starbucks' determination to transform its brand from being synonymous with coffee to a food and beverage juggernaut.
Following the crisis of Bear Stearns, the US financial markets have been enormous beneficiaries of Bernanke's determination to transform the Federal Reserve into a trading desk.
It is proof of the company's determination to transform the investment management industry, along with the lives of some of the world's poorest people.
Courtesy of smartphones, Cupertinos today are a richer field than ever – a personal favourite being my last phone's determination to transform "Facebook" into "ravenous".
When the wind parted the branches, I could just make out the Petronas Twin Towers, the world's tallest buildings, a symbol of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's single-minded determination to transform this tropical capital into a wired financial powerhouse.
