Resolution
The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of analyzing a complex notion, or solving a vexed question or difficult problem.
The state of being relaxed; relaxation.
The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination.
That which is resolved or determined; a settled purpose; determination. Specifically: A formal expression of the opinion or will of an official body or a public assembly, adopted by vote; as, a legislative resolution; the resolutions of a public meeting.
The state of being resolved or firm in opinion or thought; conviction; assurance.
The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem.
A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like.
The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord.
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Resolution Quotations
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau
But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
Barack Obama
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Sophocles
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
Mercy Otis Warren
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Abba Eban
Resolution Translations
resolution in Dutch is resolutie, motie
resolution in Italian is dissoluzione, deliberazione
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