Sentence examples for they were resolved to from inspiring English sources

HBR asked top management thinkers to share what they were resolved to accomplish in 2011.

As security has tightened, so has the presence of people-smugglers and traffickers, which May and her French counterpart, Bernard Cazeneuve, said they were resolved to root out.

At a large bike protest on Friday, the police showed they were resolved to keep the bikes from blocking traffic, and they did that again yesterday.

The authorities' tactics on Monday indicated that they were resolved to stifle unrest — starting with the refusal to issue a permit for a nationwide demonstration.

"Last week Allen & Unwin did express some legal concerns but despite that I thought they were resolved to publish it, so it was a complete shock," Hamilton told Guardian Australia.

While Republican members of the banking committee expressed hope that a deal could still be brokered, several Democratic members said on Friday that they were resolved to move on.

But thousands of people have said in a Facebook poll that they are resolved to protest anyway, permit or not.

Despite having no independent judiciary to defend them, no freedom of speech and no right to demonstrate, they are resolved to change their country for the better, whatever it may take.

ON SYRIA'S 360km-long border with Jordan, rebel fighters are not waiting for anyone else to come and clobber Bashar Assad's regime; they are resolved to do it themselves.

But they are resolved to close it at the first sight of nearby oil, with or without approval, said Charles S. Houser, the mayor of Magnolia Springs, who earns a monthly salary of $100.

"They want the few cases that are resolved to be exemplary".