Despite many handicaps – he suffered as a child from undiagnosed dyslexia and dyspraxia, and left school at 15 with no obvious future – he rose by determination and sulky self-belief.
While some people have predicted that Mr. Obama would have to shelve his priorities given rising deficits, his determination to proceed, especially on health care, reflects his economic advisers' conviction that the government cannot control its finances without reforming health care.
No matter their determination or rising level of experience, those who manufacture or place the bombs still make mistakes, as evidenced by events on Friday morning on ground that the Marines call Cemetery Hill.
Anxiety for one's own position, dread of falling behind the rising torrent of folly, determination at all cost not to be outdone, may be natural if not particularly heroic excuses.
Iraq's Kurdish leaders, eager to expand trade and cross-border cooperation, have supported efforts to end the fighting, offering their own model of self-determination and rising prosperity as an example.
With the state publishing so few determinations, concern is rising that the revenue department may be selectively publishing determinations for its own purposes, possibly generating inconsistencies among specific rulings.
A University of Colorado graduate, he stumbled into the industry and through sheer determination rose from a trading floor to the highest ranks of his profession.
May we all rise now with determination and bravery that each and every one of us poses just such a threat and just such a danger to a global paradigm of inconceivable injustice.
Everywhere the same scenarios unfolded, as peaceful marchers collided with ranks of riot police and, in a rising wave of anger and determination, eventually overcame them.
Oh, grow up, Jan, I hear my quiet inner voice rising significantly in pitch and determination.
