Meanwhile progressives are pushing with increased determination for the Church hierarchy to transform its spirited opposition to gay marriage into support.
De occulta philosophia in its early form showed Agrippa's determination to transform magic into a useful science that would draw together all branches of magical learning, set those materials into a single philosophical framework, purge magic of the evil and demonic practices that had caused it to be regarded as a wicked science, and turn it into knowledge that would be beneficial to humanity.
It is proof of the company's determination to transform the investment management industry, along with the lives of some of the world's poorest people.
She wants to transform its printing and services businesses.
Khomeini himself proved unwavering in his determination to transform Iran into a theocratically ruled Islamic state.
Following the crisis of Bear Stearns, the US financial markets have been enormous beneficiaries of Bernanke's determination to transform the Federal Reserve into a trading desk.
Courtesy of smartphones, Cupertinos today are a richer field than ever – a personal favourite being my last phone's determination to transform "Facebook" into "ravenous".
When the wind parted the branches, I could just make out the Petronas Twin Towers, the world's tallest buildings, a symbol of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's single-minded determination to transform this tropical capital into a wired financial powerhouse.
The story of how they came to occupy a sand dune in Indiana is a testament both to the power of the exposition's modernist vision and to one man's determination to transform a marsh 60 miles from downtown Chicago into a thriving suburb.
Centred entirely on the minute detail of one man's life, the book's painstaking and often painful unfolding of his haphazard progress through life demonstrated her determination to transform banality into something remarkable, to commemorate the complexity and strange beauty of the everyday.
