The only explanation that makes sense for this policy is that it serves the US governing class in its determination to maintain its dominant influence in the world -- also known as Imperialism.
The central bank said the euro zone crisis could resurface, potentially driving investors back into the safe-haven franc, underlining its determination to maintain its cap on the franc at 1.20 per euro.
Authorities of Iran reaffirmed its determination to maintain its controversial nuclear program, and recognized that Stuxnet computer virus affected the operation of centrifuges that enriched uranium.
So the eurozone took the heat, though there was anger at Ireland's determination to maintain its low corporate tax rate.
In Nancy Balfour's day, American Survey (now renamed United States) was run on almost military lines, with strict discipline, frugal use of resources and a firm determination to maintain its independence from the rest of the paper.
But while the importance of the first two is much diminished, the Corporation, the least reformed of all, is more influential than it has been since its medieval heyday.Dating back to the early 12th century, it owes its survival to what Tony Travers, professor of local government at the London School of Economics, calls a "steely determination" to maintain its power.
REUTERS Ackman Sticks to a Bet on Hong Kong Dollar | Bloomberg News writes: "Hong Kong's determination to maintain its exchange-rate peg to the U.S. dollar has the confidence of currency-forward traders even as it fails to sway hedge fund investor William Ackman".
The Southern Movement's position was bound to become more complicated given its insistence on splitting from the rest of the country and Saleh's determination to maintain its unity.
That became amply clear at the turn of the 1990s, when Syria approached economic bankruptcy, witnessed the collapse of the USSR and had to adapt to rising U.S. influence in the region... Syria's determination to maintain its chemical arsenal could only have increased after 2007 when Israeli planes bombed what was apparently a Syrian attempt to construct a nuclear reactor".
New Orleans music also maintains its jazz-funeral determination to celebrate rather than mourn.
