Unlike the many who are corrupted by power and privilege, Azdak, for all his determination, fails to vanquish the little sprig of goodness still blooming in his gleefully rotted soul.
My sadness and frustrations are fuel, if only for when sheer determination fails me.
In the case of the genetics of sex determination, biologists failed to question the 'default' model for ovarian development inherited from the 1950s and 1960s.
There is much speculation, and some concern in right-wing Israeli circles, that if President Obama is also re-elected later this year, he may approach the Israel-Palestinian issue with a renewed sense of vigour and determination, having failed to make an impact during his first term.
His daughter cooks and cleans with a fussy cheerfulness and determination that fail to disguise her loneliness — you can see her struggling not to frown as her brothers question her about this or that possible suitor.
Her expressed determination to fail at everything has not attracted her father's attention, so she stalks a guy she knows is dangerous and puts herself into harm's way.
Gender determination often fails when the difference in length between the PCR products of CHD-Z and CHD-W genes is too short to be resolved.
Emergent also disputes the Los Angeles Times account of the fall of VaxGen, stating that it did not play "any role in the government's determination that VaxGen failed to meet its contractual obligations".
In her store was an aquarium where undulating red fish would try to bite my finger, pressed against the glass, with a stupid determination that never failed to amuse me.
For example, rate determination in yeast failed to detect an effect of factors such as Set1, Set2, Elongator, Chd1, Elongin (ELA1), transcription-coupled repair factor Rad26, the Paf1 and THO complexes, Spt4, TFIIS, and Bye1 (Mason and Struhl, 2005).
