Sentence examples for painful determination from inspiring English sources

Many low-income Americans are leading lives of grim and sometimes painful determination, struggling to survive from one day to the next.

For 70 minutes they had maneuvered hefty sheets of particle board, wreaked havoc among vast swaths of brown paper and manipulated their lean, muscled bodies with the painful determination of individuals suffering from obsessive, driving needs.

What awful payback for their painful determination to go to the hospital and submit to the long and very invasive testing procedure.

The passage in which Mr. Andrieux enacts Cunningham's requests and his own responses is breathtaking, a revelation of the painful slowness and determination with which the choreography was created and the intense demands on the dancers.

They are doing so with determination, often with painful efforts from their citizens, and with the unwavering solidarity of their European partners.

But their influence is now so great that they have begun to be regarded as a kind of shadow government.The proposals for labour-market reform put forward in the summer at the government's suggestion by Peter Hartz, a senior Volkswagen man, are a test of the new government's determination to enact painful structural reforms.

These changes represent a major restructuring and will be painful but they demonstrate the determination at Exeter to retain its leading position.

Mr Cameron told Tory activists: "Unless we act, unless we take difficult, painful decisions, unless we show determination and imagination, Britain may not be in the future what it has been in the past.

A resident of a rarefied world of wealth and privilege, she became a wife and worker with whom many women identified because of both her painful lack of confidence and her determination to overcome it.

These scenes are pervaded by a painful feeling of how political ideas of ethnic determination came to distort even the most inner notions of identity.

By making the decision to now associate this name with a push for liberation rather than racist oppression, in one swift move, he disempowered a painful memory and created a new one based on self-determination and pride.