Clause six of article three encourages members to "earnestly engage in criticism and self-criticism, boldly expose and correct shortcomings and mistakes in work and resolutely combat corruption and other negative phenomena".
I resolve to resolutely restyle my resolutions.
Thus it's no surprise that Ted Cruz is the current face of the Tea Party: All his achievements are proudly in the negative, all his goals are set resolutely in the past.
It is only when the speech defines a negative that the language is clear: "We must resolutely resist the impact of Western political models such as the multiparty system or separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches".
This negative meaning has attached itself to the word because contemporary globalised culture is resolutely anti-parochial.
Over the past year, many Democrats have resolutely paid attention to those things that make them feel good, and they have carefully filtered out those negative things that make them feel sad.
Peterson is resolutely alarmist.
"No," he says, resolutely.
