Sentence examples for unusual determination from inspiring English sources

Undistinguished as a scholar or sportsman, he showed early signs of unusual determination when he set out to overcome a boyhood stutter.

As befits the trainspotter he once was, Palin's diaries are distinguished by an acute attention to detail, and an unusual determination to get things right.

For example, in an unusual determination, the judges said that in the hours leading up to the executions, Mr. Sljivancanin had followed orders that were illegal and that he should have disobeyed them.

But that requires intelligence and unusual determination from a police force that is in sullen mood over a pay claim and the appointment of a Canadian as police commissioner last year.The previous prime minister resisted calls for a state of emergency because he worried this might scare investors when the economy was booming.

Scenes which might on screen, through the framing of the shot, or the performance of the actors, be imbued with meaning, but here are left as abstract, hectoring stage directions: "it is wonderfully poignant to see this tiny girl playing virtual tennis with such unusual determination".

Yes: it's Mark Goldbridge, the meta-vlogger posing as a Man United fan who, in his unusual determination to be called a "nonce" by as many strangers as possible, is coming dangerously close to blowing his own cover.

Both feature little girls of unusual resourcefulness and determination, pitted against a demented institutional authority figure.

Cruddas, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, is unusual in his determination to rehabilitate part of the Blair legacy since he is not seen as a traditional Blairite.

This contrasts with the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) mention of "unusual behavior" in its determination on giving the film an "R" rating in January.

His own experience as a poor northeastern boy in a dysfunctional family, who migrated to the industrial area around Sao Paulo, had given him a political determination quite unusual in the modern world.

Instead, in an unusual international story of determination, friendship, innovation and entrepreneurship, the Austin-based company that the two have since formed, Community Cars, expects to produce its first vehicles this year.