Whenever something is clearly impossible, San Franciscans seem determined to do it, and Golden Gate Park is living proof.
Oblivious to the facts, they stubbornly continue down the same unsuccessful path, determined to do it their way.
They seemed determined to do it right, but it was taking for-evah.
She said she knows it's an uphill battle to turn her city around, but she's determined to do it one kid at a time.
Yet Mr Chavez says he is determined to do it, even if it takes the whole of the two six-year terms to which he aspires.
David Jordan, the BBC's director of editorial policy and standards, said any interference from BBC management would only have made reporters "more determined to do it".
"You and I, Jim, have worked at the BBC for long enough to know that the suggestion that the BBC management in one part of the BBC was reluctant to allow an investigation by a news programme to go ahead, frankly, would only spur that investigation on and make people more determined to do it, " said Mr Jordan.
"We are determined to do whatever it takes to be the leader in the online rental space, " said John Antioco , Blockbuster's chairman and chief executive, in a press release that took direct aim at Netflix.
With the ECB determined to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro and the Fed promising to buy securities in the open market until the cows come how, world without end, Amen, then that chips some of the downside risk.
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Seven months down the line, we are attending one of Shawn's first training sessions in the gym while her parents are coming to terms with their determined daughter's decision to do it all again.
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"The report points us in the right direction to do that and we are determined to see it through, " he added.
After problems involving transport and electronic scoring mechanisms at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, it was determined to show it could do better.
Some have been transferred to their home countries, some to other countries either because they -- the task force determined that it was okay to do so, or in some cases judges have ruled in habeas cases that the government no longer has an acceptable reason for keeping that individual.
"What I'm absolutely determined to do is to make sure that it doesn't hurt as much at the places it really matters, " he said.
But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends.
Google is determined not to let Microsoft do the same to it by building Internet search into Windows.
She acknowledged it was a difficult time for the police as there was "a lot going on at the moment" but she said ministers were determined to make it easier for them to do their job while increasing accountability through the election of the first crime commissioners later this year.
But that doesn't change the fact that President Clinton, for all his flaws, was determined to reduce government borrowing, and he took on powerful constituencies to do it.
He was very determined and very single-minded about what he wanted to do at the club and I think it is one of the best signings that the board has made.
Not only was Miss Morris determined to go, but she said it was time for Mrs Shipley's ruling National Party to do the same and call an election.
"We are determined to do our best to have the Democratic Party of Japan at the helm of the nation... and fight it out to move politics forward, " he added.
In the world of comedy, if you are absolutely determined to stand on a stage for five minutes with a mike in your hand, someone in London will let you do it, if only once.
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