For nearly three weeks, Carlsen tried and tried, but made little progress against the painstakingly resolute defensive play of his Russian rival, who time and again was able to salvage results from seemingly impossible positions.
Williams was resolute about playing a second-round match.
This season, the Bulldogs played resolute football in uncertain circumstances, though they lost five of their first eight games and had another one canceled by Hurricane Gustav.
Icily resolute top brass, played by Paul Bettany, Kevin Spacey and a splendidly leonine Jeremy Irons, convene an all-night crisis meeting to decide on ruthless measures to protect their own wealth.
The same evidence of dashed intentions comes across in matters domestic (in the chaotic rearing of Herzen's children, despite a resolute German governess, played by the Jennifer Ehle) and epochal (the freeing of the serfs in Russia in 1861).
Especially if the performance of this turbulent and, by the end, sublimely moving symphony is as well played and resolute as the one Alan Gilbert conducted with the New York Philharmonic on Thursday night at Avery Fisher Hall.
Despite the Yankees' pleas for him to play, Posada was resolute.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Nintendo 3DS) Nintendo's Zelda is a recurring myth, a series whose set, props, lead characters, and rhythms of play have remained resolute in the face of new adventures.
Unable to play through a resolute five-man Albion defence, Spurs' best second-half chances were shots from distance, from Kyle Walker and Danny Rose, until late pressure yielded headed opportunities for Gylfi Sigurdsson and Roberto Soldado, neither of which ended up on target.
"We knew we would have to play well and resolute is a good word to describe us.
