Sentence examples for resolute over from inspiring English sources

But he has said the government must remain resolute over its policies of offshore processing and regional resettlement for "illegal maritime arrivals" in order to deter people-smuggling.

Moscow's backing had become more resolute over the past seven months, after Vladimir Putin launched a large-scale intervention last October against rebel groups and jihadis, which has since laid waste to many opposition-held areas in northern Syria.

The former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, meanwhile, urged May to remain resolute over Brexit, writing in the Daily Telegraph that the EU referendum had "voted for a clean break and not a negotiated confusion" over the EU.

Invoking Churchill, he was warm about America and sounded resolute over Iraq and al-Qaeda: in an interview for American television, he said the fight with terrorism was "a struggle for the soul of the 21st century"—an ingratiating phrase, even if it was borrowed from Bill Clinton.

In a conference call in August Mr Murdoch said he was "resolute" over his decision to drop the bid.

When asked whether the Netherlands would pay the European Commission fine for failing to hit its 3% budget deficit target, Mr Roemer's response was a resolute "Over my dead body!" Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager immediately warned that such "irresponsible comments" threatened to undermine market confidence.

One particular goal was to persuade other Asia-Pacific leaders to take a resolute line over North Korea's recent test of a nuclear bomb.

The US military kept a resolute silence over the subject until this week, when it announced that the airfield was specifically built to test Lockheed's U-2.

"We thank Darren for his energetic and resolute leadership over the past four years and we continue to see his role as the Twenty20 captain as a critical one," said West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Dave Cameron.

She gives her agent a firm no ("Are you out of your mind?"), then reverses herself with a resolute yes and, over the course of the book, gets her journalistic groove back.

For instance, one grabber in the "Pearl Harbor" trailer is a stirring image of a distraught but resolute Cuba Gooding Jr. taking over an anti-aircraft gun.