Shortly after his accession, determined to abandon Justinian's policy of buying peace, he rejected an Avar request for tribute.
He recently told General Powell that if the United States was determined to abandon the ABM treaty it should draft another treaty to replace it, American officials say.
They appear to have been determined to abandon Nefertiti's policy of religious compromise and to return to full traditional polytheism.
He's been determined to abandon the highly reductive and periodically florid binary rhetoric of "Tony Abbott versus the death cult" in favour of a political message that seeks to land the national conversation in a place of harmony and proportionality.
The rivalry between Greek trade in the western Mediterranean and that carried on between the Etruscans and Carthage had already come to a head at the battle of Alalia in 535 bce, a battle which the Greeks claimed to have won but which so upset them that they determined to abandon Corsica to Etruscan and Carthaginian influence.
After the war, Hill, together with the likes of Eric Hobsbawm and Victor Kiernan, was a central figure in the Communist Party Historians Group, which was determined to abandon the history of "great men" for a more socially attuned, finely grained discipline drawing on lost voices and vernacular sources.
Stewart had used the break in the action to effect rudimentary repairs to his battered ship and, with the agreement of his officers, determined to abandon the other ships and escape alone.
Unlike traditional sales models for established companies, this model uses information gleaned from prospective customers to determine whether to abandon the idea, improve it, or proceed with prototying, product development, and further lead generation.
By law, car owners have up to 10 days to claim a car that's been determined to be abandoned, but city officials said they would work with people whose cars are about to go to auction.
Back in Springfield, Phil from Chicago heads to the gay bars with an armful of Kerry stickers, determined not to abandon the state just yet.
President Bush's decision to increase combat troop levels in Iraq in January 2007 sent a clear message that he was determined not to abandon a people to death squads and terrorists.
