The ruling centre-right Popular Party of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar -- a staunch opponent of Basque self-determination -- emerged as the region's second political force thanks to its alliance with the smaller conservative party.

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This tension between the prime minister's perception of his political self-interest and the determination of John Prescott to rein back the private motorist has never been resolved.

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He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he hoped the result would reaffirm the principle of self-determination and send a message to both the international community and to Argentines.

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More than any other time in history, this bull market owes its strength to the Fed's unblinking determination to pump money into financial markets until the economic recovery becomes self-sustaining.

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Nadal is a self-proclaimed underdog who so loved the 1993 movie Rudy, about a scrawny kid's dogged determination to play football for Notre Dame, that he has given out 300 copies of it.

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