But cheap housing and social grants haven't sated demand for education and work opportunities that could offer a pathway to more self-determined advances.

WSJ: South Africa Labor Unrest Spurs Deadly Gunbattle

"Our overarching recommendation is that funding arrangements in London should allow London government to make additional self-determined investments in its own infrastructure both to cater for the growth already forecast for its population and economy, and to promote additional economic growth, " the report says.

BBC: London

They self-organized and successfully determined the direction, speed and size of a series of armored vehicles.

FORBES: Sensing Opportunity

Skeptics and self-styled consumer advocates seemed determined to find storm clouds hanging around in front of these silver linings.

FORBES: AT&T Moves Dramatically Towards 'Internet Everywhere'

Prosecutors decided the 17-year-old would not be charged because they determined that he acted in self-defense.

NPR: Police Arrest 2 Teens In Georgia Baby's Killing

Facebook isn't alone, of course, in offering this seductive fantasy of a radically transparent digital society in which our self esteem is determined by our updates, tweets and check-ins.

CNN: Opinion: Facebook threatens to 'Zuck up' the human race

Through rapid iteration, a group of determined people using low-friction technology had created a vast, self-regulating system.

CNN: People and computers need each other

The Newport runner, who had his lottery funding removed in October 2009, is determined to show there is plenty left in Team GB's self-anointed "elder statesman" in Barcelona.

BBC: Christian Malcolm banks on major experience in Euros

His successor, Ricardo Brinzoni, regrets them too, but his self-criticism is much more measured and his defence of officers brought before the courts is more determined.

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