RESOLUTION in a Sentence

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Donavan says there is nothing materially to be apprehended; her constitution is a good one, and her resolution equal to any thing.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESOLUTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
resolution
 n.  determination; resolving to do something; formal statement of a decision
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There only remained a resolution to return to my ancient studies and to devote myself to a science for which I believed myself to possess a natural talent.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
3  With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
4  I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  My first resolution was to quit Geneva forever; my country, which, when I was happy and beloved, was dear to me, now, in my adversity, became hateful.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  At length I gathered resolution to address him in a pause of the tempest of his passion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
7  Her resolution was formed as she read.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
8  But then at other times I have not resolution enough for it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
9  The reason alleged was their determined resolution of not leaving their mother at that time of the year.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
10  Donavan says there is nothing materially to be apprehended; her constitution is a good one, and her resolution equal to any thing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
11  To see Marianne, I felt, would be dreadful, and I even doubted whether I could see her again, and keep to my resolution.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
12  But the resolution was made only to be broken.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46
13  How soon he had walked himself into the proper resolution, however, how soon an opportunity of exercising it occurred, in what manner he expressed himself, and how he was received, need not be particularly told.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49
14  The effort of resolution necessary to the achievement of this purpose I found to be quite awful.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
15  But long after that, and long after I had heard the clinking of the teacups and was quite ready, I wanted the resolution to go down stairs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  A majority vote enabled the passage of the resolution.
2  Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself, is a disgrace.
3  It is also expected to consider a resolution which would allow food to go through immediately with fewer restrictions.
4  They are trying to rush through the draft resolution before the general election.
5  Council members spent the day quibbling over the final wording of the resolution.
6  The resolution was passed by a two-thirds majority.
7  The US is trying to neutralize the resolution in the UN Security Council.
8  The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a halt to hostilities.
9  The Administration proposed and the Senate approved a similar understanding in its resolution of ratification of the Convention against Torture.
10  Today's Security Council resolution will be a significant success for American diplomacy.
11  Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
12  President Bush and House Leaders agreed on a resolution to authorize force against Iraq.
13  French authorities are looking for a favorable resolution to the case against move director Roman Polanski.
14  Nothing could shake his resolution that his children would get the best education that money could buy.
15  No single nation wants to be put in the spotlight as the swing vote that could give the US the nine votes to get a new resolution through.