Determinedly

"I can never do that," said Anne determinedly and darkly. "You can punish me in any way you like, Marilla. You can shut me up in a dark, damp dungeon inhabited by snakes and toads and feed me only on bread and water and I shall not complain. But I cannot ask Mrs. Lynde to forgive me."

The European Union has to become more united and more efficient. There is no other way. Reason can prevail only when the reasonable people act together determinedly.

where closeness, when it does manage to show itself, usually falls victim to outside forces that seem determinedly hostile to any manifestation of happiness.