But after all the votes have been counted, this is what remains: in this poor country, where many people cannot read or write, where women are still subject to draconian social and economic realities, where natural disasters strike with brutal regularity, corruption and religious extremism were resolutely routed out.
One waits for this nasty child to erupt into violence — but Baxter's stories are very different from O'Connor's nakedly religious allegories, for they resolutely draw back from melodrama, or drama.
I resolve to resolutely restyle my resolutions.
The authorities in Manama, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi in particular have been resolutely maintaining that Iran, via its nefarious Shia religious ties and untold interference by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), has been a major instigator of the unrest in Bahrain, if not the main one.
We are resolutely opposed to minarets, mosques, terrorism, barbarianism as well as religious intolerance". Those supporting the project have been just as vocal.
Western political and religious opinion-makers and the media will need to resolutely address the dangers of Islamophobia as aggressively as they do other forms of hate speech and hate crimes, ranging from racial discrimination to anti-Semitism.
An overwhelming majority of the 67 Knesset members in the six right-wing and religious parties expected to support the new government, including Mr Netanyahu's Likud, are resolutely opposed to a Palestinian state.
Yet another would dictate capitalization for certain religious terms and holidays, from "God" to "Mother of God" to "Easter" and "Christmas," which were resolutely lower-cased in Soviet times but are frequently upper-cased now.
On their most recent albums, including "Songs of Innocence" — which Sasha Frere-Jones, the magazine's pop music critic, reviewed last week — Bono sings about religious subjects with the kind of unfussy directness that, perversely, makes the songs less open to the resolutely secular.
