While regretting for the failed plans in the past year, you can still make resolution to do it better in the coming year.

也许你还在为没有实现的目标后悔不已，但是你还是可以下定决心在来年做得更好！

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One resolution would make slaves of all Negro soldiers captured from the Union army.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

What about John Worster, the Catholic priest? "I make a New Year's resolution every year and usually by the third or fourth of January it's already been broken,so.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

He indicated the administration intends to make an assessment by year's end as to whether a diplomatic resolution of the nuclear issue is possible.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Mr Sants said that he and his colleagues are determined to make resolution procedures as effective as possible - and they are currently running simulations with the biggest banks to verify how resolution would operate in practice for them.

BBC: Sants: We wanted banks to hold more capital

How do you make a resolution for a loved one without insulting him or her?

WSJ: Bonds: To Stick to New Year's Resolutions, Try Outsourcing Them

The posturing over the Deloitte-Longtop affair may make a resolution more difficult.

ECONOMIST: A dreadful choice: whether to annoy America or China