Furthermore, despite all of our earnest resolutions, Americans are still terrible at languorous ease.
I dare say by the time the first month of the New Year is completed, most of these earnest resolutions are broken.
After dipping for several years beginning in 2000 — a result, perhaps, of earnest new millennium resolutions?
Meanwhile, New Year resolutions, earnest promises to improve one's life, and hopes that the future might bring more peace and prosperity reflect the forward facing side of the god and the spirit of beginning everything anew.
President Bush, displaying much more public emotion than he had permitted himself earlier in the week, seemingly close to tears at one point, yet speaking with evident resolution, began in earnest the task of rallying the nation for the stress and sacrifice that might well lie ahead.
Representative Jim Nussle, the Iowa Republican who will lead the House conferees on the budget resolution, said negotiations would probably begin in earnest next week.
The push for a cemetery began in earnest in 2005, when the City of San Ramon adopted a resolution calling for plots outside its borders in what is called the Tassajara Valley — where Mr. Corrie's property lies.
The West is holding out hope that a briefing from Arab League leaders to the council on Tuesday will soften opposition to the resolution, with negotiations over the text to resume in earnest on Wednesday.
The budget resolution still must pass both houses of Congress before work can begin in earnest on tax legislation, and some Republicans have already expressed reluctance.
At the end of August the administration acknowledged the political necessity of a congressional resolution (they still deny its legal necessity); and after that plans began in earnest to court United Nations support.
Ms. Welti, a graduate of the landscape design program at the New York Botanical Garden, started her design in earnest in 2005 after she saw the plans for the rear addition, designed by Joseph Tanney at Resolution: 4 Architecture.
