Sentence examples for stern determination from inspiring English sources
The failure of Hannibal's brilliant endeavour was ultimately due to the stern determination of the Romans and to the nearly inexhaustible manpower from their Italian confederacy, which no shock of defeat or strain of war could entirely disintegrate.
As chairman of the Federal Reserve, Mr. Volcker proceeded to fight inflation with stern determination, tightening money and credit and dragging the economy into what Mr. Samuelson calls "the most punishing slump since the 1930s".
If it does nothing else, the undeniably shallow electro-pop that has made ex-grime MCs such as Tinchy Stryder, Dizzee Rascal and Tinie Tempah wealthy superstars points to a pretty stern determination to rise above disadvantaged beginnings.
Songs like these recall Ms. Lambert's scratchier earlier days, and other ones here show range: "Bad Example" is a slick song about being naughty that Hank Williams would have gladly tackled, and "The Hunter's Wife," sung with stern determination by Ms. Presley, plays as a serious, steaming rejoinder to spouse-hostile songs like Brad Paisley's "I'm Gonna Miss Her".
Since Shen was unable to boast of a prominent familial clan history like many of his elite peers born in the north, he was forced to rely on his superior intelligence and stern determination to achieve in his studies, subsequently passing the Imperial Exams of the Emperor of China, and enter the challenging and sophisticated life of an exam-drafted state bureaucrat.
In the prevailing narrative, the British response to fascism was marked first by appeasement, a policy simultaneously born from fear and the naïve belief that there could be a worthwhile peace, and then by a stern-faced determination to sort out this Hitler nonsense for good.
NEAR the Fire Island Lighthouse, Gus Hald stood on a ledge at the stern of his 43-foot motor yacht Determination, opened a black plastic container and removed a sack of ashes.
The modified Stern-Volmer plot [30] (Equation 3) allows the determination of the fraction of compound molecules accessible to quencher, Figure 7 Stern-Volmer plots for quenching with iodide ion of compounds 1 and 2 for [DNA]/[compound] = 200 (A) and corresponding modified Stern-Volmer plots (B).
(The Home Office then discontinued that particular question).Labour's unswerving determination to press on with other stern security measures may also be backfiring.
The sovereign's insistence on firmness and stern action was based on fear, not on confidence; his determination concealed a state approaching panic, and his courage fed on something akin to despair.
