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- Belle was determined to do right by her family, and she tried to be happy on the farm.†
Chpt 2.
- Harlon was daring and determined.†
Chpt 2.
- And so things went, until finally the only way that one could determine that a stream had once flowed through these dry precincts was by looking at that sign beside a bridge on the Pearl Harbor Highway that promised a "Gila River."†
Chpt 2.
- The following day, most of those same listeners, including hundreds of thousands of children, tuned in again to hear President Franklin Roosevelt intone the six-and-a-half-minute speech whose key phrases would resound in American folklore: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan...With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God!†
Chpt 3.
- His mother, Nancy, remembered Ira's determination to be a Marine: "He just made up his mind to go.†
Chpt 4.
- But Ira was determined.†
Chpt 4.
- There was also the matter of an entrenched Japanese force: a murky army whose numbers and exact distribution were impossible to determine beneath the jungle foliage.†
Chpt 4.
- The actions of these Marines trapped on the reef would determine the outcome of the battle for Tarawa.†
Chpt 4. *
- This type of determination and valor among individual Marines overcame seemingly hopeless odds, and in three days of hellish fighting Tarawa was captured.†
Chpt 4.
- Yet, however much civilian support might have been in doubt, Smith had no doubts about the determination and bravery of his Marines.†
Chpt 4.
- It was the rifleman who would determine the outcome of America's War.†
Chpt 5.
- But there was steel beneath that surface gentleness: Ralph had been determined to enlist in the Marines upon graduation from Boy's Tech in Milwaukee in the spring of 1944.†
Chpt 5.
- But he was determined to bury that record in the black sands of Iwo Jima.†
Chpt 6.
- General Kuribayashi was determined to cause as many casualties as possible over the longest possible time.†
Chpt 6. *
- And it would be the ties at this level that would determine the outcome of the battle.†
Chpt 6.
- Lieutenant Wells's determination drove his men to new heights of valor.†
Chpt 9.
- Surrounded, but still dangerous: Some of the defenders who remained were still determined killers, and no one knew when or where one might emerge with a grenade or a machine gun.†
Chpt 10.
- Rene had determined that Hansen was the figure on the far right, ramming the pole into the ground with his back to the camera.†
Chpt 13.
- But the bad news had only hardened Belle's determination.†
Chpt 17.
- Probably the determining reason.†
Chpt 19.
Definitions:
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(1)
(determined as in: is determined to succeed) firm in purpose
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(2)
(determine as in: determined she is guilty) to learn, discover, or decide
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(3)
(determine as in: this game determines the champion) to control (how something will turn out)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) See a comprehensive dictionary for specialized meanings used in law, math, and logic.