Sentence examples for like a determination from inspiring English sources

Under current law, judges issuing protective orders are required to order the surrender of firearms only in very specific situations, like a determination by "clear and convincing evidence" that the person has used the weapon in a felony or has committed another offense that by law would disqualify him from having a firearm.

"I don't know how people can make a determination like that when I can't," Mr. Race said.

She emerged, in 2012, with a voice capable of "multiple characters, like Meryl Streep" and a determination to "always give my opinion, to defend my vision".

It's dazzling, dizzying, virtuosic, and, like the tumbling, it shows a determination and a hell-for-leather approach that fits the boys.

Another Hugo hero, another hunchback (Verdi's opera is based on his play Le Roi s'Amuse), but this time one who, when marginalised and mocked because of his appearance, converts his resentment like Shakespeare's character into a determination to be avenged.

But Mr. Waugh provides little insight into how the deeply neurotic Paul found the courage and resolve to retrain himself as a one-handed pianist, or how his equally fragile brother, Ludwig, developed a similar sense of stoicism, demonstrating a "Christ-like determination to push himself through every conceivable test" while being held captive in Italy.

They seemed more like an unwavering determination to remain avant garde.

I felt a rat-like determination to see Caballé just once.

Running in parallel, however, there was a terrier-like determination by the press victims' organisation, Hacked Off, along with substantial support from a number of media academics, to ensure that Ipso was not the only game in town.

I found the chosen picket, and with a pretend-Zen-like determination (This will break!), reached over, took a deep breath, and with one fast hard 'n' sharp outward shove, snapped off the top of the wooden picket.

It looks almost like determination.