But now the citizens are waging a determined struggle – to keep open the space for direct democratic participation, to insist their voices are heard and that their actions count.
They defined "underdog brand biography" as "an emerging trend in branding in which firms author a historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds".
"Greta said, her voice soft and careful and unfamiliar, 'Why don't we call you Lili?' " From that point though the central event of the book is Einar's inexorable transformation into Lili, Mr. Ebershoff's story belongs to Greta and the quietly determined struggle she wages to allow her love to triumph over her needs.
But Mr. Kostunica, who was reluctant until the very last moment to accept the opposition's nomination for the presidential elections on Sept. 24, has developed an extraordinary serenity and sense of mission over these past weeks of campaigning and quiet, but determined struggle.
To the credit of George W. Bush, the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 have entailed not only the overthrow of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, but a determined struggle to establish beachheads of liberty in these realms that were once completely under totalitarian terror.
We know she will stay with Ames, but we see, for the first time, what a determined struggle it was not to walk out the door, back to the itinerant life she'd always known.
But I think he understands, as everyone else in the Labour party does, that a struggle of this nature … is a determining struggle about the direction of the Labour party". Harriet Harman, the Labour deputy leader, stressed there was no plan to break the link with the unions, and indicated that the controversy in Falkirk was a one-off.
"But I think he understands, as everyone else in the Labour Party does that a struggle of this nature, which is in essence political, is a determining struggle about the direction of the Labour Party.
"Delray: the Determined Struggle of A Village Condemned to Die" Detroit Free Press, Detroit MI. 11 May 1969.
The same skills are on display in "Little Excavator," as the book's determined protagonist struggles to help transform a vacant lot into a neighborhood park.
Freelance journalists, many young and determined, are struggling to survive.
