"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.

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In recent weeks Mr Clegg, the deputy prime minister, wrote to Liberal Democrat party members saying he was "determined to make sure we do more" to ease the cost of child care.

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"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.

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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.

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But, like Liberia's new president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the continent's first female elected as head of state, women are determined to make a gender difference in the way they do business.

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If Ellison goes shopping outside his home sector to buy chip companies or another hardware maker, as he seems determined to do, he will be increasing the odds that Oracle will eventually make an acquisition blunder.

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Determined to make my mark, I made my first trip to China in September 1992, completely unprepared to do business in the country.

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But I think if anything, it will make people a lot more determined -- Brits are quite stubborn, they don't like being told what to do.

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