While Orbison determinedly pursued his second chance at stardom, he reacted to his success in constant surprise, confessing " It's very nice to be wanted again, but I still can't quite believe it.

As Eddie Bullard pointed out to me, the fact that the Villas Boas family possessed a tractor put them well above the peasant class ... We now know that AVB was a determinedly upwardly mobile young man, studying a correspondence course and eventually becoming a lawyer ( at which news the ufologists who had considered him too much the rural simpleton to have made the story up, now argued that he was too respectable and bourgeois to have done so ).

Slowed by their loss at Puebla, the French forces retreated and regrouped, and the invasion continued after Napoleon III determinedly sent additional troops to Mexico.

This has been attributed to their SUVs ( including crossovers ) which have been seen as determinedly aimed at the narrowest of niches, a lost opportunity as SUVs are popular in the U. S. market.

" It is possible that Jane Austen drew on the character of the mother of her neighbour, a beautiful Mrs. Craven, who had actually treated her daughters quite cruelly, locking them up, beating and starving them, till they ran away from home or married beneath their class to escape There is an ironic contrast between the beautiful but determinedly chaste Susannah of the Old Testament and Lady Susan.

Her determinedly neo-romantic poetry explores sacred myth, legend, history-in-landscape, and human feeling — and their connections to the ' inner landscapes ' of the imaginative mind.

The current regime of President Mohammad Ayub Khan is determinedly secular.

" Mon estomac ," thought Hercule Poirot, and closed his eyes determinedly.

Mary determinedly refused to acknowledge that Anne was the queen or that Elizabeth was a princess, further enraging King Henry.

Catiline also hoped that perhaps he would have an easier time battling Antonius who, he assumed, would fight less determinedly, as he had once been allied with Catiline.

In the Xanthus Valley an army of Xanthians sallied out to meet them, fighting determinedly, although vastly outnumbered.

He has always regarded his instruments as being merely tools of the trade and has, in latter years, determinedly kept his most prized instruments well away from the concert stage.

In 1919, Dadaist Raoul Hausmann affixed a self-portrait postage stamp to a postcard, but given that Dada was determinedly anti-art ( at least in theory ), calling this an " artist ’ s stamp " seems almost counterintuitive.

Whether altering the succession was Edward's own idea or not, he was determinedly at work to exclude his half-sisters in favour of what he perceived as his jeopardized legacy.

The determinedly optimistic Mr. Roddenberry was partial to plots that made uplifting moral points.

Gustaf Vasa ( 1523 – 60 ) determinedly strengthened the central power and mightily increased the authority and resources of the crown, and his reign marked the beginning of the early modern Swedish state.

The UFA MLAs came from a determinedly independent and non-partisan background and proved nearly impossible to whip.

His historical method was distinguished by his thorough and sensitive use of historical sources, and by his determinedly historical perspective.

Cameron determinedly attempted to increase his public visibility, offering quotations on matters of public controversy.

According to Professor John Davies, " here is a determinedly Brythonic, and indeed Roman, air to early Gwynedd.

Most of these communities remained determinedly insular, but a few, primarily the Chabad and Bratslav ( or Breslov ) Hasidim, adopted an attitude of outreach to the larger Jewish community, seeking to win more Jews to the Hasidic way of life.

In December 2008, Terrorizer reviewed Sudden Death Syndrome, calling it " a tasteful and sophisticated piece of work that determinedly puts the Jordanian metal scene on the map.

But even under those circumstances Paul, outwardly neutral, remained determinedly pro-Allied.

Since he is half-ghost, Danny's struggles, hardships faced by teenagers in his world, are unusually topped with deadly villains from the ghost zone ; but in the end, with the help of his friends, he determinedly acts on the right decision.

Simone de Beauvoir tries to base an ethics on Heidegger's and Sartre's writings ( The Ethics of Ambiguity ), where she highlights the need to grapple with ambiguity: " as long as philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it ... And the ethics which they have proposed to their disciples has always pursued thre same goal.

Since the early 20th century, the armed forces have pursued the goal of weapons self-sufficiency.

At the same time, computer scientists working in the field of Artificial Intelligence have pursued the goal of creating digital computer programs that can simulate or embody consciousness.

Tolkien with his Quenya pursued a double aesthetic goal: " classical and inflected ".

While fairy tales were relatively free from ideological oppression, the realistic children's prose of the Stalin era was highly ideological and pursued the goal to raise children as patriots and communists.

# NA ' AMAT USA: This group has pursued its goal of supporting the women and children of Israel for the past 80 years.

The final goal pursued by the Vienna Circle was unified science, that is the construction of a " constitutive system " in which every legitimate statement is reduced to the concepts of lower level which refer directly to the given experience.

The originality of the Gaia theory relies on the assessment that such homeostatic balance is actively pursued with the goal of keeping the optimal conditions for life, even when terrestrial or external events menace them.

He pursued this goal despite the objections of his parents, with whom he did not get along, drawing more inspiration from the life of his paternal grandfather, a sea captain.

From the very beginning Baťa pursued the goal of constructing the Garden City proposed by Ebenezer Howard.

During Tito ’ s era, his ideas specifically meant that the communist goal should be pursued independently of ( and often in opposition to ) what he referred to as the Stalinist and Imperialist policies of the Soviet Union.

She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers ' organisations.

In order to ensure this goal, they pursued a policy of ensuring an " Open Door " to foreign markets for U. S. business and agriculture across the world.

The Food Sovereignty movement may be right about the mistakes of neoliberal economic ideology, but it is silent about the fact that most famines actually occurred under socialist and communist regimes that pursued the goal of food self-sufficiency ( see Aerni ( 2011 )

Betty Ford's decision to undertake such a project followed on the heels of her own battle with alcohol dependence and opioid analgesic addiction, and after her release from the Long Beach Naval Hospital, she pursued the goal of creating a treatment center that emphasized the needs of women.

' Their goal was to make silicon transistors, which Shockley had abandoned in favor of another idea he unsuccessfully pursued ," the report continued.

Nevertheless, he pursued his goal, attending painting classes taught by Constant Montald and Jean Delville.

The most widely accepted and pursued goal was for the city to hold the Winter Olympics in 2014 ; that bid failed, so they will try again perhaps in 2022 or 2026.

In his teens, McCarty set himself the goal of becoming a physician-scientist, and he pursued a successful strategy to prepare for admission to, and early success in, Johns Hopkins University Medical School.

In January 1893, concerned about Canada's possible annexation, a goal then being pursued by the so-called Continental Union Association, a group of Ontario and Quebec Liberals, Prime Minister Sir John Thompson delivered a speech on tolerance, Canadian nationalism and continued loyalty to Britain.

This goal is being pursued with a combination of theoretical and experimental approaches at several levels of investigation ranging from the biophysical level to the systems level.

While Irish governments, particularly under Éamon de Valera, pursued the goal of a united Ireland throughout the 20th century, the prospect of a united Ireland assumed particular importance following the outbreak of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s.

The Soviet manned lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land a man on the Moon in competition with the United States Apollo program to achieve the same goal set publicly by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961.

Although all Soviet leaders had the same long-range goal of developing a cohesive Soviet people, they pursued different policies to achieve it.