The extraordinary level of co-ordination was designed to demonstrate resolve in the face of financial panic but failed to restore confidence in the stock market.

Yet sport, while an important tool of soft power, cannot take precedence over the need to demonstrate resolve to a regime that behaves with impunity.

He has worked hard, demonstrated resolve, but he has also, perhaps unintentionally, symbolised a wider cultural trend.

Yet amazingly the inner resolve of this 32-year-old drove her on.

Officer training enforces upon young hopefuls a veritable game show of discipline and hardship, much of it humiliating and petty, but all of it calculated to mine that inner resolve.

You have the strength and inner resolve to be whatever you want to be, especially when it comes to work and organising relationships.

There was a more profound manliness that was about respecting and caring for others, and having the inner resolve to walk away when confronted.

She feels an enduring sense of satisfaction, bordering on intoxication, at being a participant in a race that has taught her new and vital things about her inner resolve.

Once again, the creative tension between elegance and convenience, respectively, has proven difficult to resolve satisfactorily.

The safety issues must be resolved satisfactorily, or the good record of motorways will be compromised.

But few of them are resolved satisfactorily, and so people are increasingly taking to the streets.

These arbitrary, or unintentional interference, caused endless confrontation and lawsuits, which were not always resolved satisfactorily for both sides.

At his best resolving tensions, cooking, calming and enabling others to have fun.

For that, the secularists will demand a role in government, which could be the basis for resolving tensions between the two revolutionary strands.

This unique compromise was the outcome of a power-sharing wrangle to resolve tensions between the country's four leading clans.

Other commentators have however referred to the edginess in his music, its restlessness, its often ambiguous nature, its rarely resolved tension.

He says he wants the country to show resolve and fortitude.

Shareholders need to show resolve in getting them significantly shaved back.

He will need to show resolve to demonstrate that in the coming months and years.

And then she played a splendid, battling second set, uncurling the elegance of her forehand, thinking hard, showing resolve and skill and match-savvy.