Sontag's determination to outface death became part of her legend.
Peter J Conradi's aim in this impeccably researched book is to establish the truth of Frank's final scenes and to understand how it was that a Communist, an intellectual and a poet – his finest poem, An Epitaph for my Friends, describes young men leaving "our books and flowers" to go to war – could have marched with such suicidal determination to his death.
His refusal to remain in prison at this critical period of India's history was expressed in a determination to fast to death, which frightened the British government into releasing him.
Bob Macy, the Oklahoma County district attorney, was so outspoken in his determination to seek the death penalty for Nichols that he had to be removed from the case.
A Justice Department review of the federal death penalty cases, begun under President Bill Clinton and expanded by the Bush administration, has found that in more than 75percentt of cases in which a United States attorney made an initial determination to seek the death penalty, the defendant was a member minority, and in half of them the defendant was an African-American.
Lee Kovarsky, post-conviction director of Texas Defender Service, a nonprofit established by veteran capital attorneys, says Missouri's determination to empty its death row as quickly as possible was bound to have an unusually great impact on its defense bar.
His determination to condemn Antigone to death for trying to give her brother a proper burial leads to the suicide of his own son.
We must take from these facts and projections not hopelessness or surrender, but a renewed determination to limit the deaths, to save lives, and to know, some day, that we did all we could.
On the basis of studies in identical twins genetic factors have been implicated in the determination of susceptibility to death from infections [ 90].
Living wills often express the determination to die a "natural death" and not to have life extended artificially by life support equipment.
