Sentence examples for determinedly against from inspiring English sources

Lauren Drain was unlucky to have found herself in the orbit of a family that set itself so determinedly against the rest of the world.

But even among the proposed new line's supposed winners, opinions on its merits were sharply divided on Tuesday, with as many determinedly against as in favour, and plenty unconvinced either way.

A single voice is answered by sustained, close-harmony drones that writhe in and out of consonance, turned discordant and fascinating by a male voice nudging determinedly against the harmony.

It's difficult to fight the urge to push back determinedly against your rocking chair when an artist yells, "You can turn on the flashes on your iPhones and wave them around … if you're lucky I'll put it on Instagram" before launching into a ballad.

Shalom bemoans that the Iranian summit on nuclear disarmament is "an explicit provocation against the free world which is not acting determinedly against Iranian nuclear ambitions".

"We will continue to act forcefully and determinedly against those who seek to harm our citizens and we will do this according to international law".

I wonder if Inherent Vice will ever succumb to the kind of siege I so determinedly mounted against The Master, but I do look forward to our next few encounters – because, honestly, I love a movie that puts up a good fight.

'But I couldn't find a leading lady I wanted who was available, so Howard [director Howard Davies] went ahead with a different cast.' The same director, happily, did not give up: it is Davies, whom Irons first met while a student at the Bristol Old Vic, who is at the helm of Never so Good Who, then, is this actor who so determinedly cuts against convention?

Perhaps the most heartening example of fan power has taken place not in the Premier League but on the south coast where a group of fans have determinedly battled against the odds to save their club from the ravages wrought by a succession of owners with a range of dubious motivations – very few of them in the best interests of Portsmouth Football Club.

Taking a pass from Claude Makelele in the inside-left position, he turned Gary Holt and determinedly won a tackle against Marc Edworthy, before rifling home a vicious left-foot shot from 20 yards.

The speech, delivered by Mr. Hussein without a text as he sat in a large thronelike chair, had the earmarks of an exercise in public musing, as if Mr. Hussein was talking himself through all the computations he has wrestled with since President Bush began talking determinedly of military action against Iraq earlier this year.