The men agree in order to use the game as cover for an escape attempt, but soon find themselves risking discovery in their determination to put one over on their captors.
Once, visiting the actress Colleen Dewhurst upstate, he saw a 19th-century Staffordshire figurine of Shakespeare and was fired with determination to find one of his own.
Michael Gambon's Philip Marlow (cursed by his not-quite Raymond Chanamer-ish name) lies in a hospital bed, trapped by agonising psoriasis and the determination to write one last detective mystery.
Through his protagonist's long and eventful life, Randy Boyagoda explores themes of shifting identity, of the diamond-hard determination to evade one's destiny and of the inner landscapes of an island that itself undergoes a dramatic transformation.
"We are certainly going to compete, with strength and determination, to be one of the winners in the bidding that the Brazilian government is going to hold to replace its fleet of supersonic fighter planes," Mr. Botelho said.
The determination to become one of the world's top museums was likewise reflected in the board's decision to hire Mr. Ross after Mr. Lane left in 1997 to become head of the Dallas Museum of Art.
"We are certainly going to compete, with strength and determination, to be one of the winners in the bidding that the Brazilian government is going to hold," Mauricio Botelho, the president of Embraer, said in an interview last year.
I found myself in the midst of thousands of young Egyptians, whose only point of similarity was their dazzling bravery and their determination to do one thing – change the regime.
A few elements have by now become so generic -- like the gay best friend, the determination to model one's life after romantic old movies ("Breakfast at Tiffany's" this time), the parental nagging about marriage and children -- that it is no easier to say where they originated than to identify the first showdown in a western.
