How To Use Resolute In A Sentence

Representing France, Jean-Marc Bustamante conjures a ‘Pavilion of the Amazons,’ which centers on four large color photographs of solitary, unsmiling young women standing in resolutely unpicturesque landscapes.
They have to turn aside resolutely from the beaten track. For Whom The Big City Tolls
The locals will have to stay resolute in the face of the invading British hordes, but it's hard to imagine they would ever be willing to swap chorizo and fino for burgers and beer.
Hai!” switching the camel, and fruitlessly endeavouring to fustigate Mas’ud’s nephew, who resolutely slept upon the water-bags. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
The story is set resolutely in the present.

Her voice sounded calm and resolute.
What's most distinctive about this mordant comedy of manners is the resolutely awkward cinematography. Times, Sunday Times
To do pioneering work, he or resolutely abdication, preparation is barehanded make the world.
The play calls for Elizabeth to gradually learn the rules, reaching the same irresolute state as the adults who surround her.
To be irresolute when a prompt decision should be taken would only spell disaster.
He is a resolutely loutish, wantonly violent thug.
He resolutely hacked off the cable and the sail slipped down.
The British will remain together, resolute and strong. The Sun
We all remain resolute and determined. The Sun
Whilst his hours were passed in studious retirement, the empress, resolute to achieve the generous design which she had undertaken, was not unmindful of the care of his fortune. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
`Elaine," he said, and at first she thought he was drunk but then heard the resolute, clear, unarguable: `I can't come here anymore! DANSVILLE
His resolutely secular wife, Asma, fits photogenically into the picture of a modern republican dynasty and works to promote civil society organisations. Syria is yet to play its cards
It recalled the despairing Congregation to a mood of resolute trust and hope. John Knox
But Stoiber is resolutely on the same side as the Chancellor on the Kirch issue - even though they will be rivals for the chancellorship later this year.
Once at the ship, the vanguard of the crowd scattered and stood irresolute. THE DISPOSSESSED
She remained resolute in her belief that the situation would improve.
Their resolute opposition to new working methods was difficult to overcome.
These are exciting times which must be matched by political foresight and resolute action. Times, Sunday Times
He remained resolute in opposing the duties after consulting Deripaska. Times, Sunday Times
Once at the ship, the vanguard of the crowd scattered and stood irresolute. THE DISPOSSESSED
The competitors who travel by foot and skis pulling sledges with supplies, will cover over 350 miles in four stages from Resolute Bay, Canada, to the North Magnetic Pole.
Our swaggering demon is resolute until agile Laksman climbs on his foe's bent thigh to deliver a walloping strike that sends Intorachit reeling.
Two nights earlier, at the University of the Streets, she performed "Raging Waters, Red Sands," a mostly through-composed suite that blended shuo-chang , an ancient Chinese narrative form, with a resolutely downtown Manhattan musical vernacular. A Singer's Arrival, in Her Own Words
We resolutely oppose such and practices that contravene facts and undermine China - US relations.
Polly Vernon measures out her relationships in three-minute songbites and asks if there's a compromise between resolutely Rock and completely, madly Pop
They are resolute that they will physically fight back whenever the law and order officers arrive.
And thirdly, despite having always been resolutely opposed to sexism, lookism and shapeism I couldn't get over how ugly the crowd was.
If you can't see how even the most resolutely period-costumed production of Don Carlos maybe just might have some pertinence to current political realities, then you're just plain obtuse. Archive 2007-09-01
Li Jianying was consistent in his courageous and resolute armyman style and cost his life to win peace and happiness for more people.
Voters perceive him as a decisive and resolute international leader.
Yet credit is due to Kilmarnock for remaining resolute throughout and having the capacity to respond.
Still, a shadow crosses Jack's resolutely clouded eyes as he detects a snag in the plan.
A resolutely mainstream, rather tepid drama, it politely uses the devastating 1976 earthquake in Tangshan as a backdrop for a family saga. Michael Giltz: DVDs: Craig Ferguson... Genius?
He resolutely hacked off the cable and the sail slipped down.
And furthermore, the community of Val Bavona “continues to celebrate the beauty of a lifestyle reduced to essentials (houses still do without electricity) as a real utopia, a simple, practical way of continuing, conserving and innovating the resolute search for living space that has characterized its history, finding a use even for the great rocks dislodged in landslides by using the earth they brought down with them to create fragments of vegetable garden and pasture or by the exploitation of jagged ravines to make grondàn, cantìn and splüi.” Archive 2006-05-01
Voters perceive him as a decisive and resolute international leader.
The dog ludicrously albeit lovingly christened Precious Baby by Ted's late wife and resolutely called PB by Ted himself - hesitated at the doorway and blinked out at the street, where the autumn rain was falling in the sort of steady waves that presaged alengthy and bone-chilling storm. A Traitor to Memory
Agesilaus resolutely answered, on the behalf of Phoebidas, that the profitableness of the act was chiefly to be considered; if it were for the advantage of the commonwealth, it was no matter whether it were done with or without authority. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
He resolutely refused to speak English unless forced to.
This was its first serious challenge and the Government proved to be decisive and resolute on an important but emotive issue. Times, Sunday Times
This cult of irresoluteness, this satisfaction with pointing out the difficulties, this inability to make up one's mind and carry it out, recalls to me a jest in Punch about how the sculptors have carved many a hero seated on a horse but up-to-date have never carved a hero seated on a fence. Palestine As A U.N. Responsibility
There I stand in a gown and high heels, tresses piled femininely atop my head, and yet my shoulders slump forward like a pitcher on the mound, my forehead crumples, and I become decidedly resolute as I recite my carefully composed vows: Live and Let Love
The economic moment of May 2010 was one that demanded a strong and resolute government. Times, Sunday Times
They were organised in midfield and resolute in defence. Times, Sunday Times
Resolutely accentualist in his outlook, he argued in a series of ‘Letters,’ that trisyllabic feet, whether dactylic or anapaestic, are fully congenial to English, ‘in spite of the Antijacobin’.
The pontiff called for a ‘resolute effort’ to resolve the plight of the refugees.
70 per cent of us in the UK already have one and the suspicion must be that the remaining 30 per cent are resolute non-users.
She resolutely ignores me, making a theatrical show of turning away and yawning.
The worst reason to launch an attack would be a fear of seeming irresolute.
Her gray eyes filled with tears, but she blinked them back resolutely.
Far from old heads themselves, they defend from the front but are blessed with a sturdy and determined back line that is as resolute as it is brave.
Just 60 seconds later, as Stokes converted a McGinn pass, the normally resolute St Johnstone side had been eliminated from the competition in all but name. Anthony Stokes strikes twice before Celtic resist St Johnstone comeback
The EU's executive arm will this week float proposalsfor joint issues of bonds amongthe currency's 17 governments, but Germany is resolutely opposed to the idea. What's News: Business & Finance
He probably expected me to spring from the ground with the activity which these Borderers have, by constant practice, acquired in everything relating to horsemanship; but as I stood irresolute, he extended his hand, and grasping mine, bid me place my foot on the toe of his boot, and thus raised me in a trice to the croupe of his horse. Redgauntlet
At this crisis, Wallace with a band of resolute men, sprang from the tower upon the wall; and it being almost deserted by its late guards, (who had quitted their post to assist in repelling the foe below), he leaped into the midst of the conflict, and the battle became general. The Scottish Chiefs
Their success was built upon a resolute defensive display, shutting out 12-goal Dean Saunders.
It is bliss, Lindsay House, a set of elegant Georgian rooms where you can eat a menu that is both seasonal and resolutely un-modish: braised hare with polenta, rabbit terrine, pike and eel pâté, braised chicken with colcannon.
Mrs. Frost was ever on the alert lest any of her smaller children should get in the way of these huge rubber-tyred vehicles tearing along at reckless speed, -- and old Josey Letherbarrow resolutely refused to go outside his garden gate except on Sundays. God's Good Man
While the Dutch showed coltish flamboyance, the Italians were resolute, unflappable, patient, wise, brilliant.
But this year, for some reason, I was very irresolute about it.
They booted another two goals while a resolute navy unit kicked one more to end the game with an average of one per quarter.
`Elaine," he said, and at first she thought he was drunk but then heard the resolute, clear, unarguable: `I can't come here anymore! DANSVILLE
As an industry, we need to remain resolute in what we believe in and confident that our wines can hold up with their unique style intact. It's the Style, Stupid.
May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
We examine the children who have cellulitis and outline in pen the discoloration of each skin infection so that when the antibiotics penetrate and begin to take effect, we can measure the resolute retreat in its distance from the border that has been marked. Between Expectations
He is resolutely behind a modern integrated rail system for the capital.
In New York, Mr. Prieto quickly began realizing his musical ambitions, which straddle jazz and Afro-Cuban traditions and lean resolutely forward. A Propulsive Force for Jazz
He resolutely adhered to what he had said at the meeting.
She resolutely refused to learn about computers.
Having once lived in AZ, and for a good many years, I can say with resolute authority that AZ is one of the best reasons anywhere to suggest a close reexamination of the second amendment, possibly with an eye to amending it to more appropriately fit modern times. Think Progress » Arizona militia recruiting veterans with ‘kill records’ to patrol border.
They remain resolutely opposed to the idea.
Dante met her gaze, his deep brown eyes steady, his expression resolute. Etched in Bone
Their resolute opposition to new working methods was difficult to overcome.
I was just as resolute in my determination to spend Christmas with my fiancée.
His delivery is purposefully nervous, artfully irresolute.
Because recorder players are resolutely pig-ignorant where string instruments are concerned.
Mr Clarke has shown himself to be resolutely opposed to compromise.
He's quite amusing and articulate in a resolutely uncomplicated way and had a huge listenership generating vast advertising revenue. Times, Sunday Times
The two turned resolutely toward Olympic stadium and Mephistopheles, the torch held high, rode in woozy disbelief as they carried him to his destiny. Clarification
As, for proof, now: a purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with swearing “Lay by” and spent with crying “Bring in;” now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows. The first part of King Henry the Fourth
Do we feel pride in Jeb because he swells his chest and resolutely juts his cleft chin?
We are resolutely agnostic on that issue; as far as we can determine, the evidence does not yet justify an estimate.
The attempts by some shortsighted commanders to confine themselves to training and to leave education to officers of educational structures have met with a resolute rebuff.
Walking its entirety takes four or five months and resolute determination: only about half of those who set off will make it. Times, Sunday Times
Just one of his guiding principles, that nothing should be built higher than the clerestory of the Minster, has insured that it remains a resolutely low-rise city.
She walks resolutely away, conscious of being spied upon by a ghostly face at every window.
Active, inquisitive, resolute, and possessing a fair share of the national _perfervidum ingenium_, not without some tincture of those elements of the Scottish character known as the "canny" and the "dour," our worker early developed that robust vigour of mind and body which has so long stood the wear and tear of severely trying work. God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada
As flames rage in the night sky, the youngest daughter laughs uncontrollably at the spectacle of her resolutely bourgeois family, sellers of sour pickle and malt coffee, literally going to hell in a handcart. Christa Wolf obituary
Whereat I stood musing and commending to my selfe the ingenious and apt inuention of the Arthist, in the vse of such a stone, which of his owne nature to contrarie proportions affoorded contrarie coulers, and in such sort as by the raysing vp of hir small plummage aboue hir seare, hir beack halfe open, and hir toung appearing in the middest thereof, as if she had beene resolutely intended, and eagerly bent to haue gorged hir selfe vpon it. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
It is also a shame that Daldry felt he had to finish his film with a ‘feel-good’ conclusion that is at odds with a generally irresolute tone.
He waited a moment or two as if willing to give the old woman time to speak: then, when he saw that she kept her thin, quivering lips resolutely glued together he called his corporal to him. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Instead of his head falling away and legs imitating those of a drunk, he was poised and resolute, pulverising anything that came within his shot-radar.
Yet the more nuanced language of Edmund Stoiber gave the impression that he was irresolute and wavering.
She took it out again resolutely, and read it with some difficulty. Sowing Seeds in Danny
Flashman's itch to survive and to save his skin at all costs makes him a resolute and desperate character.
May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
Instead of defending traditional values, the church frequently seems weak-kneed and irresolute.
Only a resolute leader who sets an irreproachable personal example stands any chance of making headway.
Pressed beyond the limits of forbearance, our army fought back resolutely and dealt telling blows to the enemy.
May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
In the aftermath of the incident, his government will have to take quick and resolute steps with thorough probes and punishments of the delinquent officials concerned.
The United States remains resolutely opposed to this.
All such diabolic, yet cowardly actions must be severely condemned, censured and deterred with steeled resolve and equally resolute counteraction.
On the stroke of half-time, Stoke finally pierced through the resolute City rearguard with a swift, incisive move.
The representation of Leonello's long skull, resolute but unaggressive chin and flat, perhaps broken, nose is more incisive than in the moulded portrait medallion Pisanello copied from it.
All of them were remarkable, whether it was headstrong Farzana who brooked no opposition to her determination or whether it was the resolute Shahida who despite her own shaky life became the anchor of her extended family.
He was, however, resolute in his course and understood that death was a possibility.
What made Reagan extraordinary, beyond his communicative skills, was his resolute adherence to core beliefs.
Our political and financial commitment to defending our nation remains resolute. Times, Sunday Times
And thirdly, despite having always been resolutely opposed to sexism, lookism and shapeism I couldn't get over how ugly the crowd was.
Your mind is clear, your mood resolute and action replaces waiting and wondering. The Sun
For this reason, China unwaveringly pursues a foreign policy of peace and independence. It resolutely protects its national independence and sovereignty and opposes.
Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such motions as men sometimes would, but cannot, if either they have not the limbs, or these be bound with bands, weakened with infirmity, or any other way hindered. The Confessions
The Elder's eyes flashed, his wide face craggy with age, his cheekbones and jaw resolute.
But as he stood, irresolute, in the hall, the office door opened and the second detective came out. A DEATH IN TIME
Found it difficult to get through a resolute defence though. The Sun
She was unmarried still, and without boyfriend as far as he knew, remaining resolutely independent since a brief and disastrous live-in relationship in her early twenties.
An answering signal from Sauerkraut, whose expression insofar as sheep are capable of expression was resolute. Beginner’s Grace
Solomin left his hat alone, the more readily as Sipiagin, who had observed his irresoluteness, exclaimed: Virgin Soil
Once in the Arctic, the eight-man team will begin a thirty-day 300-mile ski trek to the Pole from Resolute Bay, a remote outpost off mainland Canada.
He had to take resolute action. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
He had to take resolute action. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Tipped to tumble, Motherwell now surf the wave of just one loss in six games thanks to an unexpected capacity to maximise the sum of their unremarkable talents and convert it resolutely into a winning equation.
That's just what voters need - another referendum passed down by bureaucrats who are too irresolute to do their jobs.
Yet now, resolutely, as only a man can do who is capable of martyring himself for the cause of science, he proceeded to violate all the fineness and delicacy of his nature by making love to the unthinkably disgusting bushwoman. THE RED ONE
But as we had seen all afternoon you had two resolute sides battling it out here.
Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia
History is littered with resolute men whose faith and conviction got them into deep doo-doo.
He grumbles at his lot instead of resolutely facing his difficulties.
Instead, sticking to their anti-formula of catchy singalong anthems, infectious enthusiasm and a resolute lack of pretension, they've not only survived but thrived, routinely selling out major concert-hall tours.
The only course on which he could determine, was to stand by the helm like a resolute pilot, watch every contingence, do his best to weather each reef and shoal, and commit the rest to heaven and his patroness. The Monastery
Hope your elephant hurricane, determinedly resolute!
It is perfect and subtle stuff: smoky from the eggplant's grill-induced char, with a light, nubbly texture more interesting than a resolutely smooth purée's.
In public, she remained resolute. Times, Sunday Times
Still hoarse, she was pale but calm, her expression resolute rather than afraid. Shameless
You've got to be strong and resolute but still have the open mind to go and play your own game. The Sun
We, the lesser fry, may enjoy the luxury of shaking and red eyes but we expect the man at the top to be firm, unfaltering and resolute.
Now they will be ever more resolute not to repeat such a feeble feat.
It is perfect and subtle stuff: smoky from the eggplant's grill-induced char, with a light, nubbly texture more interesting than a resolutely smooth puree's.
For a literary scholar who rightly prides himself on his engagement with historical evidence, this resolute nescience deserves attention. The Times Literary Supplement
He worries about America's resoluteness in a long competition with China, already sees a "drift to antagonism" and fears it could lead to a war that might turn nuclear.
For a representative of a party caricatured for being rather feeble and spineless, he has been strikingly resolute throughout the crisis.
We are told by one of them that “she had upbuilt with strenuous pains a resolute virtue,” conquering many faults, and gaining a lofty nobleness of spirit. George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
The resolute landscapist could draw figures beautifully. Times, Sunday Times
All such diabolic, yet cowardly actions must be severely condemned, censured and deterred with steeled resolve and equally resolute counteraction.
We need to resolutely work to reorient investment by shifting the government's priority in infrastructure investment to the countryside.
Whatever expensive item was placed in front of him, his insula remained resolutely 'blasé'. Times, Sunday Times
Reflecting the primacy of kinship bonds, tribes are resolutely egalitarian, segmental, and acephalous - to use terms favored by anthropologists.
It is the only way to explain such a disastrous performance by their defence on a night it needed to be strong and resolute. The Sun
All the time I'm either in fear of what will happen, or I think I ought to be afraid, but this morning I felt strong and resolute.
They were prone to be shaky and irresolute, he explained - and might even betray the nation's servicemen.
They do not have the necessary width to open up resolute defences. Times, Sunday Times
Much of it boils down to little more than a group of disgruntled notions sloshing around in irresolute minds.
I have seldom seen such grit, determination and resoluteness from everyone on a Waterford team.
The Red Army used infantry and cavalry units to move more resolutely and to a deeper depth.
Ballina responded, but were repelled by a resolute defence to hold out for a hard-earned victory.
He became even more resolute in his opposition to the plan.
He saved resolutely, took a year-long executive-training seminar and, while working in Atlanta for Siemens AG, started researching the food business. Dreams Come True. Or Not.
But there is no doubt that earlier and more resolute action would have saved us all a lot of pain. Times, Sunday Times
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There is ample reason to think that these shows of weakness -- or, more precisely, of irresoluteness -- emboldened America's enemies. From the WSJ Opinion Archives
Her voice sounded calm and resolute.
Once at the ship, the vanguard of the crowd scattered and stood irresolute. THE DISPOSSESSED
The British will remain together, resolute and strong. The Sun
Australian films were resolutely populist in this period.
They are classically English: not modest exactly - hardly that - but undemonstrative, reticent, resolutely undramatic.
In a tentative first half neither side was able to dismantle resolute defences. Times, Sunday Times
Peace and stability - even 'humanity' - are preserved by resolutely autonomous, sceptical, relativistic individuals. The Times Literary Supplement
But it seems there is one area in which he is resolutely schtum. The Sun
Otherwise our first recollection would doubtless be of the grimly flushed large face of a resolute parent, bending hotly downward in effort to make both ends meet while we wambled and waggled in innocent, maddening sport. Pipefuls
Oh! Any gonoph can see that the man was murdered for the stuff!" resolutely said McNerney. The Midnight Passenger : a novel
She conducted herself with calmness and firmness, and she resolutely refused to be undermined and bullied by those around her.
The Red Army used infantry and cavalry units to move more resolutely and to a deeper depth.
he entered the building resolutely
Brown, have been somewhat too resolutely robbed of the formal avenues, clipped hedges, and other topiarian adjuncts which comport so well with the starch prudery of things Elizabethan; but they are still replete with grotto, fountain, labyrinth, and alcove -- a very paradise for the more court-bred rank of sylphs, and the gentler elves of Queen Titania. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
And resolutely down on fresh milk production and adulteration of the offense.
A tall American walked in resolutely and shook a fistful of chits in the barman's face. Burma
Philip was a sly and somewhat oleaginous character but also an effective, resolute, and respected king.
We were simply a resolute group of people determined to make the very best of a very bad deal.
At the beginning of the war America remained resolutely aloof. Times, Sunday Times
His straight, patrician nose simply added to the resolute, aristocratic aura surrounding him.
Tamara was usually a resolute soldier, a calm and imperturbable Warrior of God, but now she seemed distressed. The Omega Theory
In the figure of the coltish, resolute Sigourney Weaver, Alien may just be the film that overhauled the old, unreconstructed horror genre and dared to put a woman centre-stage.
Mr Clarke has shown himself to be resolutely opposed to compromise.
Resolutely unglamorous, Chadsey's young men, no hunks, preen and pose, sometimes grotesquely transformed by superimpositions that seem to be materialized projections of their fantasies, like the vulpine shadow in "Portrait (Pink Beak)," the black mud luchador mask (or terrorist balaclava) in "Blackface Rod," the dangling penis in the standing/spread-eagled protagonist of "Marines," or the extra sets of arms in the androgynous "Red Head (Shift). ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States
Hence, they are resolute in not placing themselves in a position of having to acquiesce to another agreement hammered out by the rich countries.
She was resolute about everyone's capacity to be free, and she insisted that we all do our absolute best to realize and actualize that capacity through
We all remain resolute and determined. The Sun
He is nowadays also hungrier and more resolute than he used to be. Times, Sunday Times
But Demetrius, whose courage did not sink, resolutely sent him answer, that, though he were to lose ten thousand battles like that of Ipsus, he would pay no price for the good-will of such a son-in-law as Seleucus. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
As if the velvety voices were not enough, the choir members also double as drummers, clappers and high-kicking dancers to ensure that not even the most resolute killjoys could resist the magnificent vocal beauty and power of this choir.
a resolute and unshakeable faith
You are the island of the wonderland, peaceful and fantastic, providing hope, dream, resoluteness and spirit.
Throughout she remained resolute in her determination to find the information she sought.
I am merely communicating a growing near-term cautiousness in the context of my resolutely bullish long-term stance on gold, silver, and related mining stocks. Undefined

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