Sentence examples for determination to marry from inspiring English sources

Mr. Knightley is moved to call Emma to account, and then, some time later, he pulls himself together and declares his determination to marry her.

A life spent accepting other people's choices – his father's career path, his girlfriend's determination to marry him – has rendered Dudok numb and withdrawn.

In October 1936, when his determination to marry Wallis became clear, Ernest wrote to his wife: "I know that somewhere in your heart there is a small flame burning for me.

Mr. Paxman enlivens the familiar stories of Henry VIII (and his efforts to sire an heir) and Edward VIII (whose determination to marry his divorced American mistress precipitated an abdication crisis) with his anthropological take on the customs and folkways of the royals.

The narrow escape from death had hardened Kirill's determination to marry Victoria.

In January 1936, George V dies, and David ascends the throne as King Edward VIII, but causes a constitutional crisis with his determination to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite divorcée who is still legally married to her second husband.

In Juliet's struggle with her parents, who are determined to marry her off to the wealthy, aristocratic Paris, Van Patten conveys the fragility of Juliet as well as her heroic determination.

At home, the determination of the new king, Edward VIII, to marry an American divorcée, Wallis Warfield Simpson, endangered the prestige of the monarchy and perhaps the unity of the British Empire.

It is also easy to forget that Zionism was at one time an idealistic movement that sought to marry Jewish self-determination with social justice.

Even in The Crucible – a call to arms against the corrosive madness of Senator Joe McCarthy's un-American activities investigations – the action turns on the determination of Abigail Williams to destroy Elizabeth Proctor, whose husband she hopes to marry.

The battle goes on to marry such a healthy spirit of adventure with a determination to reduce an alarming propensity for simple mistakes.