After months of preparation, the mood here today was one of gritty determination.

But most impressive and moving of all as the cleanup gets under way is the gritty determination of homeowners to restore what has been lost.

Perhaps even more important than the recognition of what has been achieved was the sense of gritty determination to overcome the continuing challenges.

He was known as a team leader for the Giants during their resurgence in the late 1980s, who played the game with a gritty determination.

They were also the inheritors of a strong architectural tradition and a gritty determination.

There is no air of triumphalism, merely a gritty determination to succeed.

Instead he has fought his condition with the gritty determination of the prize fighter he is.

"He has to be stopped," Beti said with gritty determination.

The love, the houses, the beds, the laboratories, the gritty determination to make it work, the very length of it.

Outside the chamber, there was a gritty determination to continue working, and a distinct, uneasy sense of having been there before.