Mary determinedly opposed this decision, explaining to Charles that Christina was too young for consummation of the marriage.
Perhaps this explains why Liddington's tone is so determinedly non-confrontational.
This perhaps explains why such a bright woman repeatedly and determinedly conflated equipping pregnant women with knowledge about their unborn baby – that is, being screened – and the advice they are then given about it.
And that, they add, just might explain why men so stubbornly -- some would say determinedly -- refuse to ask for directions.
But this response is one-eyed, like a preacher who explains the world entirely through the prism of the scriptures determinedly ignoring scientific analysis and the way society has developed around us.
I prefer to think, 'Oh, aren't I lucky?'" This determinedly optimistic nature, coupled with her 50s-influenced fear of being single, probably explains how she fell into a relationship with the man who would become her third husband, George Cooper, before the paperwork on her second divorce was done.
Lawrence Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and founder of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, explains how our government -- given all the ways it can spy on us -- should just as determinedly use modern technology and technologists to protect our liberties.
But I still listen, still ask him to explain ornate Igbo proverbs, still imagine the grandfather I never knew who in the late 1930s sold his valuables to pay school fees for his little boy, placed the child on a bicycle every morning and determinedly rode miles to the school in Nimo because a western education was key to succeeding in the new colonial state.
Explain, explain, explain.
"Excuse me," Louie said, and headed determinedly toward the door.
