In his secret, embattled, isolated world, the country might be called upon at any moment to muster its determination for new military campaigns, but for the time being the determination was all his own.
If the United States could not muster the "determination" to prevail in Vietnam, it was believed, then it would be showing, once and for all, that it lacked the determination to prevail in any conflict anywhere.
To meet the challenges our country faces today, it's imperative that we muster the courage and determination of Sojourner Truth.
If President Bush can muster the same single-minded determination he has shown over Iraq, he just might succeed.
With retreat having thus been rendered physically impossible, the Spanish soldiers had no better course of action but to stand and fight and, furthermore, to fight with as much determination as they could muster.
"So I say to you: go out and campaign with all the gusto and determination that you can muster, go out to campaign against the politics of fear, falsehoods and pessimism of the other side, and instead go out and campaign for the politics we believe in, of optimism, of openness, and of jobs".
Even when typing these words, I muster all my energy, focus, resilience, passion, determination, and heart, and carefully hunt and peck on the keyboard with the index finger on my left hand.
"He's just going to have to muster it up, just on pure guts and determination," Jones told me that week.
I work hard at projects, and pursue them with determination, persistence, and as much creativity as I can muster.
Motherwell needed all the experience they could muster as Celtic hit them with wave after wave of attack in a determination to emulate the goal-happy form that destroyed Hearts in the Cup.
