When investors cottoned on to the subdued outlook for profits, as they did in Japan, the effect on share prices was dramatic.Mr Edwards admits that he consistently underestimated the determination of the authorities to prevent a bear market.
And, in what is seen as the determination of the authorities to pursue a prosecution, a number of hackers have claimed they have been offered financial inducements in return for associating with WikiLeaks and gathering evidence of wrongdoing.
Indeed, it can reasonably be argued that the investigations in Japan point to a new determination among the authorities to create, at last, the kind of financial markets where investors can hope to be protected.
In a statement on Sunday, Mr. Fillon said that after more than three years "of courageous reform, carried out despite a severe global economic and financial crisis, I begin with determination, under the authority of the head of state, this new stage".
That is because the Mystery Monkey, in his wiliness and determination to elude the authorities, represented an irresistible yearning for freedom.
The determination of authorities to exterminate the underground terroristic order was shown by the fact that the publication of further details on the nightriders' activities closely followed the receipt by the Detroit police detective bureau of a letter mailed in New York and apparently written in human blood, advising the police to "lay off the legion".
"The size of the package signals the determination of the E.U. authorities to ring-fence problems in the periphery, especially given the elevated market concerns about Greece and subsequent contagion risks that could arise from that," analysts at Barclays Capital wrote in a research note Wednesday.
His case was closely watched as a test of the authorities' determination punish rights abuses in Chechnya.
I am positively impressed with the authorities' determination, sense of responsibility and commitment to an agenda of economic reform and transparency.
Signalling the authorities' determination to crush all opposition, Beijing this month dispatched to Xinjiang its elite Snow Leopard anti-terrorism unit, which was charged with securing the 2008 Beijing Olympics and specialises in anti-terrorism, riot control, bomb disposal and responding to hijackings.
