Sentence examples for assertion of determination from inspiring English sources

The medley at the center of the show combines Ms. Allen's "Fear" with Madonna's "Material Girl" into a hard-shelled assertion of determination poisoned with anxiety.

"This puts pressure on everyone else," Mr. Holbrooke said, adding that it was "a strong warning, and a strong assertion of renewed determination by NATO".

The insistence on race is, in part, an assertion of self-determination, a declaration that no church is culturally neutral.

Those big moments include a crowing, vengeful "I Wanna Be Around" and an unamplified "By Myself" that begins tremulously and builds into a corny but dramatically effective assertion of self-determination.

Not long after the new administration took office in January 2001, election reform bills were introduced in Congress, with eloquent assertions of bipartisan determination for reform, as well as impressive support from editorial writers across the country.

Staying in Phoenix was also an assertion of Cindy McCain's determination to remain in her own territory.

When John Paul II arrived in Jerusalem, the Israeli president, Ezer Weizman, welcomed him to "the eternal and indivisible capital of the State of Israel" -- an unequivocal assertion of Israel's determination to maintain total sovereignty over the Holy City.

Hannah Wilke's film of herself seen stripteasing through the transparent panels of Duchamp's "Large Glass" plays on the full title of that piece — "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" — but it is also a feminist assertion of erotic self-determination.

It was dedicated in 1954, and its brutal size made it a cold-war assertion of American armed might and determination.

The level of determination has only deepened.

With a lot of determination and nous.