Somehow all the planets aligned for Ray, a novice director with an achingly poetic-realist vision of Depression-era Texas and the determination to implement it wholesale: a perfect source novel, Edward Anderson's Thieves Like Us; and exactly the right combination of producer (John Houseman), studio (RKO) and sympathetic studio head (Dore Schary).
As with any commitment, however, adopting a policy is only as powerful as the determination to implement it.
In order to quit smoking, actions should be planned and the determination to implement these actions is crucial.
Chris Morris, the BBC's Europe correspondent, says the Commission's draft proposals speak of a determination to implement "a more swift return system" and to "ensure a humane and dignified treatment of returnees, and a proportionate use of coercive measures".
The point here, again, is that Trump is placing his prejudices — his determination to implement a white nationalist agenda — over any good-faith effort to determine what the actual impact of this agenda will be on the country.
Policymakers usually alternate between hostility to new ideas and determination to implement a new policy without bothering to try it out first.
"As far as we're concerned, what was decided yesterday confirms both the Spanish government's determination to implement the necessary reforms," he said at a briefing in Brussels, adding that commission officials had "a positive view" of Spain's draft budget.
Just look at how Brexit policy has been pushed about by empty threats and a weak determination to implement the "will of the people", regardless of the first duty of any government to do what is best for our country.
I hoped to find something approaching a dogged determination to implement the new reforms if only for the good of the patients.
An enduring characteristic of Barack Obama's presidency has been his determination to implement the ideological agenda with which he arrived in office without regard for conditions in the real world.
