Whether it was the allotment system, a kind of privatization of Indian land that resulted in transferring about 100 million acres to non-Native Americans, or the Reagan administration's "New Federalism," which in the name of self-determination cut funding for American Indian development, the federal government has too often blocked Native American advancement rather than supported it.
It means a determination to cut waste, cut cost – and cut lower priority budgets".
The Justice Secretary has repeatedly spoken of his determination to cut reoffending levels.
Thanks to Gilligan's determination to cut a dash, national attention has been diverted from the main issue of the day.
Today, in an article for the Observer, the former chancellor, Alistair Darling, delivers a withering verdict on the coalition's determination to cut spending and raise taxes.
Reactions from the music and music streaming industry to Lord Mandelson's reasserted determination to cut off "persistent" file-sharers has not been positive either.
The bank is also considering closing up to 36,000 non-sterling accounts, according to Sky News, because of concerns about money laundering and a determination to cut costs by McEwan.
One with the vision and determination to cut through the business as usual politics and finally put this country back on the path to the zombie apocalypse," he says.
In a sombre speech Osborne repeatedly insisted Britain can ride out the economic storm so long as the government does not retreat from its determination to cut the deficit.
They have already made clear their determination to cut off financing and otherwise undermine the Environmental Protection Agency, which plans to regulate carbon emissions from power plants and other industrial sources using its authority under the Clean Air Act.
There could be no clearer symbol, according to traditionalist Socialist politicians, of President Hollande's "apostasy" and determination to "cut himself off" from the grass-roots of his party.
