Sentence examples for stern resolve from inspiring English sources

Madrid and Munich will feel our stern resolve.

Clinton's response sounded like a mix of Edith Piaf and Sir Elton John: Je Ne Regrette Rien blended with I'm Still Standing; stern resolve with a touch of telegraphed theatricality.

The spry benevolence that carried her through a film like "Enchanted" (2007) has been cross-grained, in recent years, by the stern resolve of "The Master" (2012) and the snap of "American Hustle" (2013), and now, in "Arrival," her gift for sorrow, her strength, and her instinctive sweetness of temper are rolled into one.

"They will break that fence!" Sirleaf, who beat a Liberian soccer star, George Weah, to win the presidency in 2005, and who has announced that she will run for a second term next year, is seen as a figure of profound hope for Africa by many in the West and as a savior by some Liberians, partly because she is so stern, her resolve palpable and her standards high, and partly because she is a woman.

Ukraine's new government was facing a stern test of resolve after a nationalist Ukrainian MP physically assaulted the head of a television station in Kiev and forced him to write a resignation letter.

An opening game against the Kiwis will provide a stern test of their resolve.

Mr. Valenti, who will soon leave his decades-long post as president of the Motion Picture Association, insists, "The only way to kill piracy in Russia is strong copyright law with stern penalties and government resolve to enforce that law".

The dispute with the museum fund-raisers appeared to be resolved yesterday after Mr. Stern's staff said that someone whom they refused to identify had donated $20,000 on behalf of the group.

She resolved to find what a stern friend of her mother's called "proper work", landing a job first on the London Evening Standard and then a position as assistant to the literary editor of the New Statesman.

To examine the volunteers' resolve under stress, the researchers staged mock interviews with three stern-faced assistants in white lab coats.

Poovey suggested that Mary Shelley wrote Falkner to resolve her conflicted response to her father's combination of libertarian radicalism and stern insistence on social decorum.