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Her New Year's resolution is to read deeply at least one hour a day.
resolution = a firm decision to do something
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Are you making any New Year's resolutions this year?
resolutions = firm decisions to do things
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My first thought was a resolution: I resolved to never again work for my father.
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Through tears, he apologized and promised never to mistreat another POW. His resolution didn't last.
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Then, about a week before the exams were due to start, Harry's new resolution not to interfere in anything that didn't concern him was put to an unexpected test.
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My New Year's resolution.
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She made a New Year's resolution to finish her book by summertime.
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Since Owen had made fake draft cards for himself and me before his lofty, Kennedy-inspired resolution not to break the law, we used the cards to be admitted to Old Freddy's.
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- Ralph made a resolution to tie his own back afterwards. (source)
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Sometimes I'd decide to stay angry, but then I always had so much to talk about after school that I'd forget my resolution and want Mother to stop whatever she was doing and lend a willing ear.
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So on New Year's Eve, I sat home completing my list of New Year's resolutions.
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- The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them. (source)
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When I lie down and close my eyes, I make a resolution.
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And he wept and implored me to change my resolution but in the end he said, 'To hear is to obey,' and did all my will.
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It was the Europe where Indar, after his time at the famous university, had suffered and tried to come to some resolution about his place in the world; where Nazruddin and his family had taken refuge; where hundreds of thousands of people like myself, from parts of the world like mine, had forced themselves in, to work and live.
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resolution = a firm understanding (and decision on what to do)
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If I can but keep my resolution, I may again at the end of the week give a better account of myself.
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Glad I made the resolution, gladder that I kept to it.
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- 'I — I don't know,' said Bobbie, angry with herself, but still clinging to that resolution of hers, not to see anything that Mother didn't mean her to see. (source)
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It gave him little surprise, however; for he had been revolving in his mind a change of life, and thought and hoped he saw his new-born resolutions carried out in this.
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We have failed to keep our resolutions;
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I then had to regret that I did not at least make the attempt to carry out my resolution to run away; for the chances of success are tenfold greater from the city than from the country.
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- 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. (source)
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But the resolution was made only to be broken.
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As I got myself ready for school, I made the following resolutions: One week to the end of the quarter, grades slipping into gutter, I would ask for some extra credit work. ...
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resolutions = firm decisions to do things
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Even in this hour of their legislative displeasure and disapprobation, I cannot vote as these resolutions direct.
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It took all my courage to hold to the wise resolution of keeping her out of our grim task.
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- I had to give in, for Mina's resolution was fixed. (source)
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He thoroughly knows his own mind, and acts up to his resolutions: an inestimable quality.
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I am glad we made our resolution in time, as with such a feeling as this, our growing knowledge would be torture to her.
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- In the drawing-room Mr. Crawford certainly was, having been just long enough arrived to be ready for dinner; and the smiles and pleased looks of the three others standing round him, shewed how welcome was his sudden resolution of coming to them for a few days on leaving Bath. (source)
- He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolution in his power. (source)
- But I remained firm, and, according to my resolution, on the third day of September, 1838, I left my chains, and succeeded in reaching New York without the slightest interruption of any kind. (source)
- With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours. (source)
- Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he pleased; but at this moment—from whence came the spirit I don't know—I resolved to fight; and, suiting my action to the resolution, I seized Covey hard by the throat; and as I did so, I rose. (source)
- Tom repeated his resolution of going to him early on the morrow; and though Julia, who had scarcely opened her lips before, observed, in a sarcastic manner, and with a glance first at Maria and then at Edmund, that "the Mansfield theatricals would enliven the whole neighbourhood exceedingly," Edmund still held his peace, and shewed his feelings only by a determined gravity. (source)
- …and though nothing was settled but that Tom Bertram would prefer a comedy, and his sisters and Henry Crawford a tragedy, and that nothing in the world could be easier than to find a piece which would please them all, the resolution to act something or other seemed so decided as to make Edmund quite uncomfortable. (source)
- He remained steadily inclined to gratify so amiable a feeling; to gratify anybody else who might wish to see Fanny dance, and to give pleasure to the young people in general; and having thought the matter over, and taken his resolution in quiet independence, the result of it appeared the next morning at breakfast, when, after recalling and commending what his nephew had said, he added, "I do not like, William, that you should leave Northamptonshire without this indulgence." (source)
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Excessively; but what with the natural advantages of the ground, which pointed out, even to a very young eye, what little remained to be done, and my own consequent resolutions, I had not been of age three months before Everingham was all that it is now.
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- She had all the heroism of principle, and was determined to do her duty; but having also many of the feelings of youth and nature, let her not be much wondered at, if, after making all these good resolutions on the side of self-government, she seized the scrap of paper on which Edmund had begun writing to her, as a treasure beyond all her hopes, and reading with the tenderest emotion these words, "My very dear Fanny, you must do me the favour to accept" locked it up with the chain, as the dearest part of the gift. (source)
- He had every well-grounded reason for solid attachment; he knew her to have all the worth that could justify the warmest hopes of lasting happiness with her; her conduct at this very time, by speaking the disinterestedness and delicacy of her character (qualities which he believed most rare indeed), was of a sort to heighten all his wishes, and confirm all his resolutions. (source)
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Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this,
Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:
If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,
Do thou but call my resolution wise,
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The United Nations passed a resolution condemning the country's use of chemical weapons.
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- Congress passed a resolution supporting the country's right to defend itself.
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Once the resolutions were agreed, they were sent to officials and a handful were even acted on.
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resolutions = formal statements of decision or opinion voted on by a group
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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was approved by the House by a unanimous vote of 416 to 0; it passed the Senate by a vote of 88 to 2.
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resolution = a formal statement of opinion voted on by a group
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Friday, June 7, 1776 BY VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN US BY CERTAIN RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONGRESS OF THE COLONY OF NEW-YORK OF THE 7th DAY OF JUNE, ….
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resolutions = a decision made by formal vote
- At the instigation of the Communist Party and the Indian Congress, the convention passed a resolution for a one-day general strike, known as Freedom Day, on May 1, calling for the abolition of the pass laws and all discriminatory legislation. (source)
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In theory, federal resolutions are constitutionally binding on the States; but in practice, they are merely recommendations that the States observe or disregard.
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A mass meeting at Lawrence had vilified the Senator and speedily reported resolutions sharply condemning his position.
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A unanimous resolution was passed on the spot that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum.
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resolution = a formal statement of a decision voted on by a group
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"Speaker," called Norris, "I present a resolution made privileged by the Constitution."
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But for George Norris, the victory on the investigation resolution was only a preliminary step.
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Send to your Senators public opinion by resolutions, letters, and delegations.
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He then asked that the resolutions which he had sent to the desk be read.
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It was the year of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which prompted Owen to ask: "DOES THAT MEAN THE PRESIDENT CAN DECLARE A WAR WITHOUT DECLARING IT?"
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We passed nine resolutions calling for an end to child labor and asking for help to send the disabled and street children to school, as well as for the reconstruction of all the schools destroyed by the Taliban.
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"And the Democrats had scheduled a vote—for today—on a resolution to persuade Reagan to cancel the test," I told the canon.
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- By the time the Congress put an end to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution—in May of 1970—there had been more than half a million U.S. military personnel in Vietnam; and more than forty thousand of them were dead. (source)
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At the behest of a joint planning council consisting of Dr. Moroka, Walter, J. B. Marks, Yusuf Dadoo, and Yusuf Cachalia, the ANC conference endorsed a resolution calling upon the government to repeal the Suppression of Communism Act, the Group Areas Act, the Separate Representation of Voters Act, the Bantu Authorities Act, the pass laws, and stock limitation laws by February 29, 1952.
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Acting, therefore, in the defense of our own security and of the entire Western Hemisphere, and under the authority entrusted to me by the Constitution as endorsed by the resolution of the Congress, I have directed that the following initial steps be taken immediately:
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They continued debate on whether the resolution was privileged while the party faithful hurried back from St. Patrick's Day parades.
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- Finally, all attempts at intimidation and compromise having failed, Speaker Cannon, as expected, ruled the resolution out of order; and Norris promptly appealed the decision. (source)
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On February 4, a resolution was passed by both Houses instructing Lamar to vote for the Bland Silver Bill, and to use his efforts as spokesman for Mississippi to secure its passage.
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Next he astounded his colleagues by seeking to disqualify from an impeachment hearing any Senator who had previously voted on the impeachment resolution as a Member of the House.
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resolution = a formal statement of opinion voted on by a group
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Although previous resolutions of impeachment had been defeated in the House, both in committee and on the floor, a new resolution was swiftly reported and adopted on February 24 by a tremendous vote.
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By a vote of 182 to 160, Democrats and insurgent Republicans overruled the Speaker, and by a still larger margin Norris' resolution—already amended to obtain Democratic support—was adopted.
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The outraged Nebraska State Legislature, with whooping enthusiasm, passed a resolution expressing the confidence of the state in President Wilson and his policies.
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Now Cannon's own ruling on the census bill in support of his friend had given Norris—and his resolution, clearly based on the Constitution's provision for House rules—an opening, an opening through which the Nebraska Congressman led all of the insurgent and Democratic forces.
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He had made it clear that he was not in sympathy with Andrew Johnson personally or politically; and after the removal of Stanton, he had voted with the majority in adopting a resolution declaring such removal unlawful.
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But John Quincy Adams did attend; and, although he declined to serve as moderator, he nevertheless was instrumental in drafting the group's fighting resolution which pledged to the President the lives and fortunes of the participants in support of "any measures, however serious."
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Cloakroom rumors had previously indicated the nature of Norris' proposed resolution—but it was merely a subject of contemptuous amusement among the regular Republicans, who knew they had the power to bury it forever in the Rules Committee itself.
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But in this particular case, he insisted, "their wishes are directly in conflict with the convictions of my whole life; and had I voted [on the Matthews Resolution] as directed, I should have cast my first vote against my conscience."
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And shortly thereafter, the Yazoo Democratic County Convention adopted a resolution that their legislators should "vote for him and work for him, first, last, and all the time, as the choice of this people for United States Senator."
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resolution = a formal statement of opinion voted on by a group
- Such a resolution, he somewhat impertinently argued, was improper if not unconstitutional by "tending to unsuitable discussions of character, and to debates altogether foreign to the subjects which properly belong" in the Senate. (source)
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After only ten days in the Senate he had irritated his seniors and precipitated a three-hour debate by objecting to a routine resolution calling upon Senators to wear crepe one month in honor of three recently deceased patriots.
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But the Virginia Legislature, dominated by Jackson's friends and Tyler's foes, and influenced by the sentimental feeling that the President should be permitted to retire without this permanent blot on his record, instructed its Senators to support the expunging resolution.
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When Andrew Jackson's personal and political popularity brought increased support for Senator Benton's long-pending measure to expunge from the Senate Journal the resolution censuring Jackson for his unauthorized actions against the Bank of the United States, Senator John Tyler of Virginia, convinced that mutilation of the Journal was unconstitutional and unworthy of the Senate, stood his ground.
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For in the inner pocket of his threadbare black coat was a scrawled resolution which he had drafted years before—a resolution to have the House, rather than the Speaker, appoint the members of the Rules Committee itself, the Committee which completely dictated the House program and was in turn completely dominated by the Speaker.
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When the impeachment resolution had passed the House, Senator Ross had casually remarked to Senator Sprague of Rhode Island, "Well, Sprague, the thing is here; and, so far as I am concerned, though a Republican and opposed to Mr. Johnson and his policy, he shall have as fair a trial as an accused man ever had on this earth."
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To his astonishment, Representative Norris sought to amend the resolution then under debate—a resolution calling for a joint committee to investigate the Ballinger-Pinchot conservation dispute—by requiring the entire House of Representatives to appoint its members to the investigating committee, instead of granting the customary authority to the Speaker to make such selections.
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The payment of our government's debts—even to the "bloated bondholders" of Wall Street—in a debased, inflated currency, as the Bland Bill encouraged and the accompanying Matthews Resolution specifically provided, was an ethical wrong and a practical mistake, he felt, certain to embarrass our standing in the eyes of the world, and promoted not as a permanent financial program but as a spurious relief bill to alleviate the nation's economic distress.
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But the former Nashville professor was horrified by the mad passion of the House in rushing through the impeachment resolution by evidence against Johnson "based on falsehood," and by the "corrupt and dishonorable" Ben Butler, "a wicked man who seeks to convert the Senate of the United States into a political guillotine."
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Outraged at this setback, Benton charged that the resolutions had been inspired in Washington and falsified real opinion in Missouri.
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Determined to see the Legislature's resolutions withdrawn or repudiated, Benton launched an aggressive tour of his hostile state.
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I certainly supposed the Senator from Missouri, the representative of a slaveholding state, would have supported these resolutions ….
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- And the resolutions, he felt, enjoined "upon their Senators a course of conduct which neither my judgment could approve nor my spirit brook." (source)
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And as its next order of business, the Legislature promptly passed resolutions instructing its Senators to urge repeal of the Embargo.
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John C. Calhoun read to a worried Senate his famous resolutions insisting that Congress had no right to interfere with the development of slavery in the territories.
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On March 5, 1850, the Legislature of the State of Mississippi adopted a series of resolutions instructing the representatives of Mississippi to vote against the admission of California.
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Their fondest hopes were realized, for the new Senator from Kansas turned out to be Edmund G. Ross, the very man who had introduced the resolutions attacking Lane at Lawrence.
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Although previous resolutions of impeachment had been defeated in the House, both in committee and on the floor, a new resolution was swiftly reported and adopted on February 24 by a tremendous vote.
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Calhoun, successful in obtaining adoption of his resolutions by several Southern legislatures, denounced Benton to his Missouri enemies as one "false to the South for the last ten years…"
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- Attacking his longtime political enemy, Judge Napton, who had reportedly drawn up the resolutions, he said that any man who acted according to the provisions of those measures would "be subject to be hung under the laws of the United States—and if a judge will deserve to be hung." (source)
- Nevertheless, Calhoun called for an immediate vote; and in the momentary confusion that followed, he was angrily amazed to see the massive and stately Benton rising from his chair, his face flashing with obvious contempt for Calhoun, the resolutions and his own political fate. (source)
- But the Texas Legislature adopted Calhoun's resolutions, and cast a suspicious eye on the ambitious former President of Texas whose name was being mentioned, in the North as well as the South, for the White House in 1852 or 1856. (source)
- A massive but lonely figure on the Senate floor, Lucius Lamar spoke in a quiet yet powerful voice, a voice which "grew tremulous with emotion, as his body fairly shook with agitation": Mr. President: Between these resolutions and my convictions there is a great gulf. (source)
- By an overwhelming margin, the Missouri Legislature adopted Calhoun's resolutions, expressed Missouri's desire to cooperate with other slaveholding states, and instructed her Senators to vote accordingly. (source)
- In another town, spotting from the platform three of his enemies sitting quietly in his audience while he characterized their resolutions as "fungus cancers," he caustically referred to them by name "as demure as three prostitutes at a christening." (source)
- He would have nothing to do, moreover, with Calhoun's "hands-off" slavery resolutions and "Southern Address," attacking that revered sage of the South for his "long-cherished and ill-concealed designs against the Union," and insisting to the Senate that he, Sam Houston, was "on this floor representative of the whole American people." (source)
- Beginning his address to crowded meetings with "My friends—and in that term I comprehend those who come to hear the truth and to believe it—none others," he attacked the resolutions as "false in their facts, incendiary in their temper, disunion in their object, high treason in their remedy, and usurpation in their character…" (source)
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As the Massachusetts Legislature enacted further resolutions wholly contrary to the spirit of the Seventh of March speech, one member called Webster "a recreant son of Massachusetts who misrepresents her in the Senate"; and another stated that "Daniel Webster will be a fortunate man if God, in his sparing mercy, shall preserve his life long enough for him to repent of this act and efface this stain on his name."
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Later events indicated the correctness of Benton's views that those resolutions were but "firebrands intended for electioneering and disunion purposes," providing the slave states with a program on which to unite—not only as a section but behind the leadership and Presidential candidacy of Calhoun himself.
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With undisguised contempt for this attitude, Adams in 1806 had introduced and pushed to passage—successfully—a unique experience for him, he noted in his diary—a series of resolutions condemning British aggressions upon American ships, and requesting the President to demand restoration and indemnification of the confiscated vessels.
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resolutions = formal statements of opinion voted upon by a group
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Have you any record of such a resolution?
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Here the work of the coming week was planned out and resolutions were put forward and debated.
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- The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own. (source)
- It was always the pigs who put forward the resolutions. (source)
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He assured them that the resolution against engaging in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested.
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- Again the animals seemed to remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days, and again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the case. (source)
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All the animals remembered passing such resolutions: or at least they thought that they remembered it.
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- Never to have any dealings with human beings, never to engage in trade, never to make use of money — had not these been among the earliest resolutions passed at that first triumphant Meeting after Jones was expelled? (source)
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That resolution is a law, and resistance to it punishable.
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resolution = a formal decision made by vote
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If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation.
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The consequence of this is, that though in theory their resolutions concerning those objects are laws, constitutionally binding on the members of the Union, yet in practice they are mere recommendations which the States observe or disregard at their option.
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She ran each mile of the marathon with increasing resolution.
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- Through many years and hardships, her resolution to serve the poor never wavered.
- And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. (source)
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But I couldn't listen, not really, because Baba's casual little comment had planted a seed in my head: the resolution that I would win that winter's tournament.
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resolution = determination (firmness of purpose)
- Though exhausted, they fought the urge to sleep, afraid that a ship or submarine would pass and they'd miss it. ... Mac was alone in his wakefulness, his mind spinning with fear. ... Grasping at an addled resolution, he began to stir. (source)
- If he looked into the strobed rain too long, he ended up curled and oblivious, for if there was no figure to be seen in the falling drops of water, he felt abandoned, and if he saw anything—a shape, a movement, a form—he screamed, silently, despite all resolution to the contrary. (source)
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"Wait a moment, Kit," said William. "Let them go ahead. I want to talk to you." The quiet resolution in his voice penetrated her racing thoughts.
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- PARRIS, with resolution now: Betty! Answer Mr. Hale! (source)
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I don't know where I even got this rush of resolution.
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- But I know many tricks and I have resolution. (source)
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Soft, soft, but how piercing! boring and drilling into reason, tunnelling through resolution.
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She looked at me so appealingly, and at the same time manifested such courage and resolution in her bearing, that I gave in at once to her wishes.
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And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage, Is sicklied o'er with care,
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resolution = determination (firmness of purpose, or courage)
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At one time you take pleasure in a sort of perverse self-denial, and at another you have not resolution to resist a thing that you know to be wrong.
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resolution = determination (steadfastness; or firmness of purpose)
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My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.
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...to act with resolution,
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- I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes. (source)
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"Thee knows a Quaker does not run away." ... But Hannah's brief resolution suddenly gave way, and all at once she clung to Kit, sobbing like a child.
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Only resolution and habit can let me make an entry tonight. I am too miserable, too...
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resolution = determination
- Even in his sleep he is intense with resolution. (source)
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At length I gathered resolution to address him in a pause of the tempest of his passion.
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resolution = determination (firmness of purpose)
- I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. (source)
- I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution. (source)
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All the resolution has gone out of his dear eyes, and that quiet dignity which I told you was in his face has vanished.
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resolution = determination (or perhaps clarity)
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That mighty brain and that iron resolution went with him to his grave, and are even now arrayed against us.
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resolution = determination
- ...the shadow of dread seemed to slip from us like a robe, and the occasion of our coming lost something of its grim significance, though we did not slacken a whit in our resolution. (source)
- [Van Helsing] is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, and... (source)
- He turned away to recover himself, and when he spoke again, though his voice still faltered, his manner shewed the wish of self-command, and the resolution of avoiding any farther allusion. (source)
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She spoke from the instinctive wish of delaying shame; she spoke with a resolution which sprung from despair, for she spoke what she did not, could not believe herself.
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resolution = firmness of opinion
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Had he been alone with her, his heart must have opened in spite of every resolution; but Susan's presence drove him quite into himself, and his attempts to talk on indifferent subjects could never be long supported.
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"Whose stables do you use at Bath?" was the next question; and while this branch of the subject was under discussion, Maria, who wanted neither pride nor resolution, was preparing to encounter her share of it with tolerable calmness.
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- 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. (source)
- My manner as I thus addressed him was impressive but calm; I had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death, and this purpose quieted my agony and for an interval reconciled me to life. (source)
- Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may never know, that I am wavering in my resolutions. (source)
- Even the sailors feel the power of his eloquence; when he speaks, they no longer despair; he rouses their energies, and while they hear his voice they believe these vast mountains of ice are mole-hills which will vanish before the resolutions of man. (source)
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We anticipate a peaceful resolution to the dispute.
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- We continue to work together, but there is still no resolution to our disagreement.
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It is a paradox in whose grip we still live, and there is no prospect yet that we will discover its resolution.
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- Mom and Bob's problems were my first introduction to marital conflict resolution. (source)
- Why, when we offer them psychologists and counselors and experts on conflict resolution, are they going to youth groups and looking for friends? (source)
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A man genuinely interested in a peaceful resolution.
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The resolution of that mystery calmed fears but did nothing to soothe Savannah's increasing impatience with the new art school.
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As for the settlement of the disputed deed, you can be sure the Indians were not the beneficiaries of the resolution to that difference of opinion.
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resolution = solution or outcome
- A. Joe Fish, a federal judge in Texas, heard Supreme Beef's arguments and immediately ordered USDA inspectors back into the plant, pending final resolution of the lawsuit. (source)
- This chance may soon come, as I understand that the prospects for a peaceful resolution of the current differences between North and South are not hopeful, and the Southern States talk seriously of secession. (source)
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Poincaré didn't offer any resolutions of this quandary.
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resolutions = solutions
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Other disputes have dragged on for weeks before reaching resolution.
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resolution = solution or outcome
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Your Honor, I see where counsel is going with this and I think I have a resolution.
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resolution = solution
- And we see two things: schizophrenia would have destroyed it, and a successful resolution of its problem would preclude vengeance. (source)
- The resolution of the arguments of the Cosmologists came from a new direction entirely, from a group Phaedrus seemed to feel were early humanists. (source)
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He too performed a Copernican inversion and as a result of this inversion produced a resolution of the separate worlds of classical and romantic understanding.
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resolution = reconciliation
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Phaedrus' resolution of the entire problem of classic and romantic understanding occurred at first in this high country of the mind, and unless one understands the relation of this country to the rest of existence, the meaning and the importance of lower levels of what he said here will be underestimated or misunderstood.
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resolution = way of reconciling
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- Using the elemental code above and supplemented with low-resolution images, gradually build up to a full linguistic system.† (source)
- When all this is over, maybe we can help piece things together, bring some resolution.† (source)
- Though muted, their tones suggested they were still a few steps from resolution.† (source)
- The book included items such as the mission statement of the school, the honor code, the cadet resolution, and all of the military and cadet ranks.† (source)
- A high-resolution scan of the album's cover appeared on my display.† (source)
- To one born in a religion where the battle for a single soul can be a relay race run over many centuries, with innumerable generations passing along the baton, the quick resolution of Christianity has a dizzying effect.† (source)
- Despite Langdon's assurances that the keystone had nothing to do with her past, Sophie still sensed something deeply personal entwined within this mystery, as if this cryptex, forged by her grandfather's own hands, were trying to speak to her and offer some kind of resolution to the emptiness that had haunted her all these years.† (source)
- He looked as though this was costing him every ounce of resolution he had, but his face was set, his arms were folded, he seemed decided.† (source)
- Me and the bird-face here have come to a resolution.† (source)
- I don't see the need for a formal resolution on this," Dodgson said.† (source)
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- She made a resolution never to live in any of them.† (source)
- My "map" (such as it is) consists of satellite images far too low-resolution to be of any use.† (source)
- If a case had been solved he had written the date of its resolution on the back of the photo.† (source)
- I obsessed constantly without resolution.† (source)
- Who knows how she adopted that resolution or how it affected her; as the years went by, the poor thing went completely out of her mind.† (source)
- There's positive resolution.† (source)
- Him I can easily kill off if we don't come to a happy resolution," he says.† (source)
- But I have not given up hope that a resolution can be found.† (source)
- And she got results: the Maryland State Senate sent a resolution on fancy paper, saying, "Be it hereby known to all that The Senate of Maryland offers its sincerest congratulations to Henrietta Lacks."† (source)
- There's no resolution.† (source)
- With its high-resolution images he had picked out the fairy's tell-tale breath crystals.† (source)
- FOR MONTHS, THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY Council pressured Iraq to comply fully with U.N. resolutions, especially those requiring inspections of suspected weapons of mass destruction and related sites.† (source)
- Jan 7 Dear Cass, Remember when we were kids and Mom always made us come up with one resolution for New Year's we had to keep, no matter what?† (source)
- At its regular Wednesday meeting the Grounds and Buildings Committee passed a resolution wishing Root a speedy recovery.† (source)
- If we see it as Sonny's story, the resolution will be profoundly dissatisfying.† (source)
- We can now get high-def-quality resolution in a camera the size of a thumb.† (source)
- I approve the council's resolution.† (source)
- Given the shifty resolution, there's no way to see the tattoo clearly, but it appears to consist of words.† (source)
- Maybe at camp she could've gotten into a scuffle, but the consequences would've been dire: hours-long conflict-resolution seminars with the counselors and the rabbi.† (source)
- I made it my life's resolution to refuse any invitation that excluded Sarah Byrnes.† (source)
- It's one of my New Year's resolutions.† (source)
- Anyway, he rationalized such a conversation would only bring more pain with no resolution.† (source)
- There will be no closure, no resolution.† (source)
- I'm still wired by training to work toward resolution, but every time I think I've tied a pretty bow on this story, it unravels.† (source)
- "In their enthusiasm for conflict resolution, the Amity have apparently forgotten that meddling creates more conflict," says Tobias.† (source)
- "You can't lock me up like you did Max," Clary added, seeing Alec's weakening resolution.† (source)
- Florentino Ariza spoke in a most tenuous voice, but with the most imperious resolution of which he was capable: "Be that as it may, I cannot answer without knowing what she thinks.† (source)
- I will not leave Charlie and Renee without the best resolution I can give them.† (source)
- The nurse was right: the resolution was far superior to that of the other sonogram.† (source)
- They each had a slender build and upright posture and dark skin, and though the feed lacked audio input it was of sufficient resolution that lip-reading software could identify their language as Tamil.† (source)
- I burrowed myself into caves of facts, and found delight in the logical resolutions of mathematics.† (source)
- Blomkvist found her in a blurry, low-resolution photograph downloaded from the Cochran Farm website.† (source)
- Two weeks before the December Riot, JACL leaders met in Salt Lake City and passed a resolution pledging Nisei to volunteer out of the camps for military service.† (source)
- No resolution.† (source)
- Why are you trying to weaken my resolution?† (source)
- I had no doubt I wanted resolution, I just wasn't sure I was ready for it tonight.† (source)
- Also, knowledge of our existence shall bolster the spirits of the dwarves and the Varden and counteract any adverse effects Murtagh and Thorn's appearance on the Burning Plains may have had upon the resolution of their warriors.† (source)
- He was too proud to use her, or anyone, as a haven, too proud to accept any resolution of his sorrow not forged by his own hands.† (source)
- But toward dawn, there was a resolution.† (source)
- —International Astronomical Union (IAU), excerpt from Resolution B5† (source)
- When he turned, the grief was still vivid in his eyes and something else—a kind of resolution—that she did not understand.† (source)
- "My father has never so much as swatted my hand, and he's always taught us to seek peaceful resolutions.† (source)
- He seemed to come to some sudden resolution.† (source)
- Nothing involving paperwork happens quickly in prison (except for lockups in solitary), and a prisoner has no way to get speedy resolution with a prison staffer.† (source)
- A geologist from the University of California named Stanley Margolis came to the museum and spent two days examining the surface of the statue with a high-resolution stereomicroscope.† (source)
- The third pair was digitally enhanced for color resolution, and the fourth was digitally enhanced for line resolution.† (source)
- "Resolution," Brian said.† (source)
- "They have done what UN conferences, endless resolutions, and government statements have failed to do," Foege told us.† (source)
- Through the reins, Pollard felt Seabiscuit's mouth harden down on the bit: resolution.† (source)
- People made New Year resolutions, such as losing weight and so on.† (source)
- A new-house resolution of sorts, but it hadn't really taken hold.† (source)
- Feeling hopeful, like the resolutions I made (less meth, more family, and all the Trey I can get) are within reach.† (source)
- In Wisconsin, the State Senate passed a resolution on April 12, praising "John Bradley" as one who "helped plant the American flag on Mount Suribachi."† (source)
- My resolution to be unseen gave way.† (source)
- Resolutions: I will be a much nicer person, to people who deserve it.† (source)
- A crisis is at hand—and the resolution will have repercussions both in this world and in your own.† (source)
- When the image was magnified, though, it became grainy and lost its resolution.† (source)
- Her face was a mixture of fury and resolution.† (source)
- General Dreedle's great, red domineering face was gnarled with perplexity and oaken with awesome resolution.† (source)
- He hit it without hope but with resolution and complete malignancy.† (source)
- Full of temptations, too, which are steadily eroding his initial resolution to follow the rules.† (source)
- As I made my resolution, I realized I no longer called him "the grandfather."† (source)
- I ran with new resolution.† (source)
- The weighty resolution is at one with the voice of Fate (Es muss sein!† (source)
- Strange dissonant notes thrown together, wanting resolution, and somehow they captured America and Science and all that was bold and brash and daring and exciting about America (or at least the way she imagined America to be).† (source)
- Still staring at him, but with more resolution now There was only so much of this she could take before she began to believe his lies.† (source)
- We love closure, resolution, and clarity, while thinking that we are people of "faith"!† (source)
- My honor, duty, and every other tie held sacred among men, call upon me to proceed with firmness and resolution….† (source)
- After Tom left, she had been firm with herself, setting herself all sorts of resolutions for the day and the days to come.† (source)
- In the resolution of this mystery was his mission, his purpose, and perhaps an unknowable redemption.† (source)
- I had started with a determinedly stout heart, but in spite of my resolutions it weakened somewhat when darkness fell.† (source)
- What resolution?† (source)
- "Now, that seems to me a noncontroversial resolution," Molly said.† (source)
- It is when the alien hand pollutes the source of will, when a stranger force of violence shatters the mind's calm resolution, this is when a man is made to commit the awful treachery of relief, commit in his thought the unspeakable blasphemy of seeing the hand of the gods in this alien rupture of his world.† (source)
- ' Calling up his remaining strength and resolution, he dragged Sam to his feet, and forced his own limbs to move.† (source)
- A voice, pure and dutiful, spoke with resolution.† (source)
- The resolution failed miserably.† (source)
- Of what use is resolution at the gates of death?† (source)
- I think anybody who should see the destruction they have caused in this country would applaud the resolution.† (source)
- Of understanding that hopelessly intricate network of clash and resolution that has been woven over the last twenty years?† (source)
- It was possible he had made some sort of resolution on the train trip down, because he was so easygoing on that visit, so uncritical even with the orphans.† (source)
- But I don't think their resolutions bind him.† (source)
- When she was finished, my father and I both watching in silence, she stood and said, "Now I can make my resolutions," and she went inside to strip the sheets from the bed in the guest room.† (source)
- Especially Committee on Permanent Organization, Resolutions, and Government Structure.† (source)
- Which was where all the really serious binding resolutions were always hammered out.† (source)
- Then, filled with resolution, I packed some grub in a haversack, saw to the supply of ammunition for my rifle and revolver, slung my binoculars around my neck, and set out to make good my failure of the previous evening.† (source)
- He pressed his eye against the peephole and watched the moving night, turning the big plastic dial to full focus, high resolution, and he watched Quang Ngai move.† (source)
- It is an adequacy deriving from what Mandelstam called "the steadfastness of speech articulation," from the resolution and independence which the entirely realized poem sponsors.† (source)
- At the bottom of these five-thousandfoot breasts of the earth, we made a big pre-New Year's resolution.† (source)
- They passed a resolution behind my back that any guest who complained about the food should be automatically elected cook.† (source)
- Mrs. Vanbruuker-Brown coughed and choked, recovered herself and continued: "With a sick heart, but the resolution to lead the nation to victory and peace, I leave you for the time being."† (source)
- If the resolution had been a bit better, we might even have calculated his size.† (source)
- At the end of it a resolution to subsidize Thurn and Taxis failed.† (source)
- The novel which he esteemed above all others, he said, was Madame Bovary, not alone because of its formal perfection but because of the resolution of the suicide motif; Emma's death by self-poisoning seeming to be so beautifully inevitable as to become one of the supreme emblems, in Western literature, of the human condition.† (source)
- But at last her eyes started to droop, her breathing to deepen; and a little before midnight, in spite of her resolutions, she slept the sleep of the utterly exhausted.† (source)
- (With resolution) We won't let him in the town!† (source)
- I always did make good resolutions.† (source)
- His mind held, not as warring principles but as a solemn resolution, the length and breadth of the valley stretching out as if endlessly from the burning wreck, and the close-knit pattern in the wallpaper of Will Jr's livingroom.† (source)
- This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal, a resolution.† (source)
- The resolution!† (source)
- Keep up your good resolutions.† (source)
- The whole concept, concoction and passage of the resolutions were perfected by fraud ... a plot to get me out of the Senate and out of the way of the disunion plotters.† (source)
- Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the Nation.† (source)
- Behind that there was turmoil; a mounting resolution to kill quickly… kill savagely… destroy now and arrange the evidence later… As Reich reached for the bow, his eyes carefully averted from Hassop, his mind intent on the throbbing heart that was his target, Powell drove forward urgently.† (source)
- At the same time, she was making a secret resolution not to be quite so pernickety with the next servant she found.† (source)
- Malfoy was showing less resolution than ever.† (source)
- High-resolution scrutiny reveals that both quarters were minted in 1984.† (source)
- I'm trying to enhance with filters, but the resolution on the X-ray is not great."† (source)
- Now the page was refreshed, and the coastline was full-screen, and the resolution was perfect.† (source)
- It was a folder containing four low-resolution photographs and five Word documents.† (source)
- As it was, you just left everything hanging, no resolution, nothing.† (source)
- "Since the resolution of the Wennerström affair, he's been taken pretty seriously."† (source)
- Trying to visualize a diplomatic resolution?† (source)
- Despite her resolution, she had to admit that the whole thing left her feeling a little off-balance.† (source)
- The screen is tiny, and the resolution is terrible.† (source)
- Not only wasn't there a resolution, but he blamed himself for it.† (source)
- LATER, SHE MADE A RESOLUTION: Never EVER sleep in Tartarus.† (source)
- It could only pass resolutions, not laws.† (source)
- They will consider whether the resolution is important to their immediate interests.† (source)
- She came back with some resolution plainly renewed in her mind.† (source)
- Again the owl sang; Ultima's spirit bathed me with its strong resolution.† (source)
- But no one knew and nothing seemed to portend a resolution of the struggle.† (source)
- It was a high-intensity model with an image-resolution attachment.† (source)
- The Conservative Party described the resolutions as hostile to Afrikaner interests.† (source)
- That resolution of the National Council of Metal Industries said-† (source)
- They pass so gendy and so quietly, but as if with such resolution.† (source)
- And it was the first to pass the resolution of independence.† (source)
- In his diary he wrote of chopping wood and translating Justinian, with equal resolution.† (source)
- Why does it steel my resolution to believe-even if I can hardly make a living.† (source)
- That fine-grain film really gives resolution when you need—† (source)
- "Then I think I shall," said Stoddard with sudden resolution.† (source)
- They will then decide if enforcing the resolution will be inconvenient.† (source)
- At the same time, James Madison undertook a version of his own resolutions for Virginia.† (source)
- The kindling touch of that farewell warmed her resolution yet.† (source)
- However, they have an unequal influence, depending on the subject of the resolutions.† (source)
- Why was he constantly forming yet never executing good resolutions?† (source)
- The judiciary must have the authority to enforce its resolutions.† (source)
- The legislature could pass a series of resolutions which take away the President's powers.† (source)
- But he doesn't like to veto resolutions passed by the two houses of Parliament.† (source)
- When more than the majority is required to pass resolutions, it hurts governmental operations.† (source)
- It may be proposed that two-thirds of the States (9) must consent to pass important resolutions.† (source)
- From that moment on when I had made this resolution, I also knew that I would carry it out.† (source)
- The resolution!" people were repeating on all sides.† (source)
- JEAN: [to BERENGER] I sincerely hope you'll keep up your good resolutions.† (source)
- Indeed, he was somewhat confused by his partial success, and for a moment his resolution faltered.† (source)
- It was my resolution to learn love from this most beautiful woman.† (source)
- Resolution down to a few micrograms.† (source)
- But the thing that tested Harry's resolution most appeared in his favorite shop, Quality Quidditch Supplies, a week after he'd arrived at the Leaky Cauldron.† (source)
- And the resolution of this image is good enough that Hiro can see the pier speckled with little doughnuts: probably rings of sandbags.† (source)
- Four technicians in lab coats were peering into double-barreled stereo microscopes, or looking at images on high resolution video screens.† (source)
- Or rather, she cared less, for her mood had shifted since being with the twins, and her thoughts had broadened to include a vague resolution which took shape without any particular content and prompted no specific plan; she had to get away.† (source)
- And Alec—Alec stared from his sister, to his mother, to his father, and then looked at Magnus, his clear, light blue eyes darkened with a hard resolution.† (source)
- I decided my New Year's resolution would be to get a new gym membership, and more than that, to actually go.† (source)
- A combination of horror and desire subsequently impelled him back each evening, despite his earlier resolution that they do nothing that was disrespectful to his parents, and they would touch and stroke and taste, always stopping short of sex, upon which she no longer insisted, and which they had by now found ample means to circumvent.† (source)
- The committee met and passed a resolution whose closing passage read: "The men who have helped build Chicago want the fair, and, having a just and well-sustained claim, they intend to have it."† (source)
- The resolution to replace facilitate with enable and ensure was adopted by a unanimous show of hands and a universal stomping of feet.† (source)
- Harry could not bear to hear these things, nor did he think his resolution would hold if he remained sitting beside her.† (source)
- The Big Creek Student Council today has responded to, and I quote, the 'threat of Sputnik' by passing a resolution--I have it in my hand now--that dedicates the remainder of the school year to academic excellence.† (source)
- During those first confused twenty-four hours, their hopes that the situation would come to a swift and happy resolution sank.† (source)
- All my resolutions gone in a second.† (source)
- By drawing the moving three-dimensional image at a resolution of 2K pixels on a side, it can be as sharp as the eye can perceive, and by pumping stereo digital sound through the little earphones, the moving 3-D pictures can have a perfectly realistic soundtrack.† (source)
- A subsequent resolution approved by the Exposition Company's directors stated that as of August 1, "no expenditures whatever connected with the construction, maintenance or conduct of the Exposition shall be incurred unless authorized by said committee."† (source)
- The visor drew the OASIS directly onto my retinas, at the highest frame rate and resolution perceptible to the human eye.† (source)
- It took a low-resolution image every second and stored them all on the hard drive of another PC laptop in the wardrobe.† (source)
- All around him men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives, making resolutions.† (source)
- This time the resolution was perfect, and Alan Grant had a glimpse of the skeleton, beautifully defined, the long neck arched back.† (source)
- They were in another room, and from the deep green glow he realized it was the deserted DNA-extraction laboratory, the rows of stereo microscopes abandoned, the high-resolution screens showing frozen, giant black-and-white images of insects.† (source)
- Best of all, it had the first 17-inch screen in the laptop world with NVIDIA graphics and a resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels, which shook the PC advocates and outranked everything else on the market.† (source)
- More than thirty minutes passed unnoticed as these scraps—memories, judgments, vague resolutions, questions—uncoiled quietly before her, while she barely shifted her position and did not hear the clock strike the quarter hours.† (source)
- In talking, he has the appearance of candor, becomes pathetic at times when pathos will serve him best, uttering his words with a quaver in his voice, often accompanied by a moistened eye, then turning quickly with a determined and forceful method of speech, as if indignation or resolution had sprung out of tender memories that had touched his heart.† (source)
- As my avatar plummeted down into the museum, the green vector-graphic theme disappeared and I found myself in high-resolution full-color surroundings.† (source)
- I pulled up some image-analysis software and made a high-resolution scan of both sides of the wrapper.† (source)
- On the TV screen, we see Halliday use a sword to slay a red dragon, although due to the game's crude low-resolution graphics, this looks more like a square using an arrow to stab a deformed duck.† (source)
- It was a high-resolution scan of the instruction manual cover for the text adventure game Zork—the version released in 1980 by Personal Software for the TRS-80 Model III.† (source)
- The OASIS contained hundreds (and eventually thousands) of high-resolution 3-D worlds for people to explore, and each one was beautifully rendered in meticulous graphical detail, right down to bugs and blades of grass, wind and weather patterns.† (source)
- But the resolution was a futile one.† (source)
- Sometimes it was about little things—Amanda was nothing if not opinionated—and they'd bicker furiously for a while, usually without any sort of resolution.† (source)
- Ryan knew that he was departing from his resolution to remain perfectly stoic for her sake, but realizing that BoneMan saw himself as a kind of Satan, he thought it only prudent to point out that in the real world, everyone fled the terrors of evil and ran for the loving father.† (source)
- After I'd heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language.† (source)
- It reminded me of long-ago afternoons spent with my grandfather studying historic maps in National Geographic—maps drawn long before the days of airplanes and satellites, when high-resolution cameras couldn't see into the world's every nook and cranny.† (source)
- I know …. the screen size and resolution on the end of this staff are pitiful, but I will have to make do.† (source)
- After what Valentine did, he stands here talking about monsters— "The only monster here," she said, despite herself and despite her resolution to keep silent, "is you.† (source)
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It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may he.† (source)
- DAY 5 Resolution.† (source)
- I am a modern, a member of a church far removed from Puritanism, yet I have accepted this resolution.† (source)
- A desiccated violet flattened in waxed paper made him first frown in perplexity and then smile, but without saying why, and he spent some time studying a typewritten list of what must have been New Year's resolutions.† (source)
- "A resolution was taken to retreat," remembered one of Mawhood's junior officers, "i.e., run away as fast as we could.† (source)
- By resolution was decided that Speaker (Finn) had succeeded to Presidency after Finn and I had decided that Wolfgang was best choice for Prime Minister.† (source)
- There were two more lengthy articles in the days that followed as more information was released, and in the beginning, everyone was confident that the case would have a resolution.† (source)
- Annabeth wanted to argue, but as soon as he said sleep, her body betrayed her, despite her resolution never to sleep in Tartarus again.† (source)
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