Sentence examples for resolutely trying from inspiring English sources

A1 Senator John Kerry stood squarely at the center of the Democratic presidential race, resolutely trying to keep the focus of his campaign on President Bush, but facing assaults from two rivals on core Democratic issues.

Moreover, the legendary figure, Abaris, is included in the catalogue and even said to be from the mythical Hyperborea, whereas Aristoxenus is usually seen as resolutely trying to rationalize the Pythagorean tradition.

But as Britain was the big sea power of the day, it alone could enforce abolition throughout the world, as its navy resolutely tried to do for the rest of the 19th century.

In what has got to get the award for "most bizarre," the senator who resolutely tried to pass cap-and-trade climate legislation more than once back in the days of "W" yesterday characterized the Edison Electrical Institute's support [pdf] for such a bill as being "to their shame".

In their determination to live in the country, they had almost, but not quite, outflanked a landscape of sprawl that resolutely discouraged them from trying.

And that would be a shame, since the Bush administration has resolutely refused to try the policies most likely to improve the employment picture.

Mr. Broida's gift neither tries resolutely to extend the canon, à la Dannheisser, nor affirms the high-end market, like UBS.

Still, the songs stay resolutely inconsolable: "Don't bother trying to fix my heart," Mr. Silberman sings in "French Exit".

"Try and get out of that chair," he said to me once at the beginning of a session, and when I looked at him puzzled – and still resolutely seated – he continued: "That's right, trying is lying".

The marathoner struggling against exhaustion, the boxer trying to pummel his foe, the diver resolutely focused on her task.

But the Macedonian government has resolutely refused to negotiate with the rebels, whom it views as terrorists trying to carve out an ethnic Albanian state.