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 Sentences of resolution
Definition:
n. determination; resolving to do something; formal statement of a decision
Example:
Nothing could shake his resolution that his children would get the best education that money could buy.
The tradition of new year's resolutions helps us to focus in the days beforehand on how we are going to carry out our new behaviour, so we can plan and be less likely to forget.
Sentence in Classic:
He tore himself from her as he spoke, and, flinging himself upon his horse, galloped furiously away, never even looking round, as though afraid that his resolution might fail him if he took one glance at what he was leaving.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle Context
From the lower part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle Context
I had a catching of the breath, and my skin went cold at the words, which were slowly uttered in a tone of concentrated resolution.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle Context
The basin was refilled, and this time he stood over it a little while, gathering resolution; took in a big breath and began.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain Context
He assured them that the resolution against engaging in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested.
Animal Farm By George Orwell Context
This lovely spring roused Levin still more, and strengthened him in his resolution of renouncing all his past and building up his lonely life firmly and independently.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo Tolstoy Context
As he went into the entry, Alexey Alexandrovitch, as it were, got out his resolution from the remotest corner of his brain, and mastered it thoroughly.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo Tolstoy Context
For an instant she had a clear vision of what she was doing, and was horrified at how she had fallen away from her resolution.
Anna Karenina(V3) By Leo Tolstoy Context
It expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo Tolstoy Context
Nothing in life seemed to him of much importance, and under the influence of the depression that possessed him he valued neither his liberty nor his resolution to punish his wife.
War and Peace(V2) By Leo Tolstoy Context
The secretary was told to write down the resolution of the Moscow nobility and gentry, that they would furnish ten men, fully equipped, out of every thousand serfs, as the Smolensk gentry had done.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo Tolstoy Context