"Susie knew what kind of a son she wanted, and by dint of determination she has him," Rapp says.
By dint of determination, energy, creativity, love, and faith, she has built an organization and community, Maison Shalom, where over 20,000 children, most of them orphaned by Burundi's violent civil war, have received care, education, and a solid start in life.
In the mid-1990s, Mr Gingrich proved that you could push through "pie-in-the-sky" policies, notably welfare reform and a balanced budget, by dint of discipline and determination.
However, it can minimise the role of exceptional men and women who, by dint of their talent and determination, move the country in a different direction.
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY As Poppy, Sally Hawkins is like a flesh-and-blood, female Wall-E: hard-working, steadfast, compulsive, perhaps slightly annoying and capable, by dint of sheer decency and determination, of saving humanity from its worst impulses.
In his history of the Rhodesian African Rifles, Binda describes Entumbane as the regiment's greatest victory, commenting that it was won "by dint of professionalism, discipline and determination" in the face of forces that were far larger numerically.
She doesn't get to the palace ball by dint of her own ingenuity or determination, but because she is whisked there by a scatter-brained, meringue-dressed Fairy Godmother (Helena Bonham Carter, as kooky as ever).
He could — arguably much more difficult — arrive at a top professional club like Real Madrid and Milan, and by dint of his sheer sincerity, and his determination to play, become an accepted, even loved, member of the inner domain, the locker room.
He is widely seen as having accepted the post because he cherishes and understands the NHS and, by dint of his undisputed talents (knowledge, fresh thinking, determination), as the best person to keep the service sustainable in the tricky times fast unfolding.
Silk is a black man who, by dint of the lightness of his skin and his determination to circumvent prejudice, passes himself off, for most of his life, as a white man — a Jewish white man.
By dint of our being here".
