grim determination

collocation in English

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grim
adjective
uk
/ɡrɪm/us
/ɡrɪm/
worrying, ...
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determination
noun
uk
/dɪˌtɜː.mɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/dɪˌtɝː.mɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
the ability to continue trying to do something, although it is ...
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(Definition ofgrimanddeterminationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It was also highly oppressive in that the foremen, armed with powers of hiring, promotion, and dismissal, ruled the shopfloor withgrimdetermination.
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These items were only visible to a single onstage performer, whose varying reactions (orgrimdetermination not to react) were carefully scrutinized by those offstage.
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I want to get the message across that there is agrimdeterminationin our communities to hold out.
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He is certainly a man with a verygrimdetermination.
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They have spoken eloquently, with sincerity andgrimdetermination, but let us not overlook the fact that the argument is basically philosophical.
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I believe that we shall win it bygrimdeterminationand by doing what we think is the right thing.
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The country to-day is distinguished by agrimdeterminationto carry this war to its logical conclusion.
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They are hanging on to four-figure incomes withgrimdetermination.
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Thegrimdeterminationof someone to deny his body food and nourishment in whatever cause is something that has a powerful appeal to me.
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They will carry on with the samegrimdeterminationin the difficult months ahead.
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I do not believe there was any scare at all; but agrimdeterminationwent through the country that they wanted the ships, and they meant to build them.
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There was a desire for vengeance for what had happened in 1870–71 and agrimdeterminationthat such a state of affairs should never happen again.
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It does not seem to me that this shows agrimdeterminationto deal with the dreaded inflation which has been with us since the beginning of the war.
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He was an old man, and his features wore a look ofgrimdetermination.
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The following day he and the automatic rifleman held their flank withgrimdeterminationand staved off all attacks.
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Vosler, withgrimdetermination, kept up a steady stream of deadly fire.
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Confronted with a desperate and chaotic situation he met it instead withgrimdeterminationand implacable ferocity.
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Struck again, he started to fall; and yet hisgrimdeterminationand valiant fighting spirit could not be broken.
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Once more he was struck, but bygrimdeterminationand sheer courage continued to crawl ahead.
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He is quiet and gentle; although, forced by war, to fight to protect his friends and home, withgrimdetermination.
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