"Our determination to tackle this problem remains resolute," the official said.
Xinhua, on its microblog account, tried to put a positive spin on the latest scandal, saying, "The resolute management of problematic officials shows the determination of the party's fight against corruption".
In New York, while the markets remained closed, ordinary New Yorkers and high officials were resolute.
Still, government officials and bankers are resolute in insisting that Greece will not restructure its sovereign debt, and that to do so would be unacceptable after having accepting so much money from Europe and the I.M.F.
The moment, capping a long and resolute career in state government, had officials saluting her as the indispensable Ruth Ann -- short and sweet, as the bumper stickers said it during her campaign.
Even the bravest and most resolute women -- teachers, journalists, activists, elected officials who withstood years of Taliban rule -- speak wearily and warily of survival.
At the same time, housing officials, community leaders and landlords, determined to break Harlem's resolute concentration of poverty, to transform a ghetto into a neighborhood, were recruiting a new type of resident.
The terrorists who went to Afghanistan were more resolute in their sense of Islam than the Afghan militants, according to a Western intelligence official who spent time in the country during the 1990's.
Generally, the official pictures of Mr. Bush follow the White House's narrative line of a manly, resolute leader, like the photograph of the president clearing brush at his Texas ranch wearing a cowboy hat.
