Sentence examples for were too determined from inspiring English sources

But, looking back, I wonder if we hard-liners - all in our self-confident early forties - were too determined that our view should prevail.

Terrorists are too determined and the desire for fake passports is too great.

Ibraimov was too determined for Taylor, who for the first time in the Olympics looked sluggish.

A special barrier was built to try to prevent the encounters, but Sirocco turned out to be too determined.

The result: decisions about the national broadband infrastructure have been too determined by BT's corporate interests.

The film focuses on her relationship with one boxer, played by Omar Epps, and is too determined to be inspirational, but it has its moments.

Don't be too determined about what you want to do in the future before you try a few different things in college.

The salmon is of itself excellent, but the cheese is too determined to dominate, so the poor tarragon oil doesn't get a look in.

It will be a bitter irony if a pretty bad guy, with all the wrong motives, ends up doing the right thing economically, while all the good guys fail because they're too determined to be, well, good guys.

Literary Smackdown: The South African Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer declares that Aravind Adiga's Booker Prize-winning novel "The White Tiger" is "too determined to shock" and that V. S. Naipaul is a great writer but "his novel on Africa is too racist".

Every possible dirty trick is tried by Chirac and his smarmy, foul-mouthed lieutenant (D de Villepin) to destroy Sarkozy, but he is too determined and too clever for them.