Sentence examples for By firmness from inspiring English sources

We must face resolutely the grim realities of this hour, fully cognizant of the fact that the Communists can be restrained only by firmness and countervailing power.

The agreement that Kofi Annan, the UN's secretary-general, has brought back from Baghdad Iraq's written pledge to provide immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access to all suspected weapons sites demonstrated the value, as this soft-spoken man of peace put it, of "diplomacy backed up by firmness and force".

Postharvest life of tomatoes is limited by colour and firmness when unripe and by firmness when over-ripe.

Hewn from the remains of a British Arctic exploration vessel with "especially strong timbers" whose name means, "Set in purpose or opinion, characterized by firmness and determination," she stands in stark opposition to our current presidential choices.

Ms. Ozick seems somewhat perplexed by the firmness of her conclusions in these and other pieces in "Quarrel & Quandary".

As I reported from Honduras last month, the coup leaders were privately stunned by the firmness of the American reaction.

The golpistas were privately stunned, I was told, by the firmness of the U.S. reaction — this would never have happened if the Republicans had still been in power.

And the company, which derives 80 percent of its revenue from overseas, was badly hit by the firmness of the Japanese currency last year.

Major talks in 1992 and 2012 followed regime changes in Bamako and popular calls for peace.Yet the current president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, came to power by pledging firmness against northern uprisings.

They may have been inadvertently off-message with one another when Chuck declared he would have voted for Scottish independence and Flav said he was against all forms of "separatism" (although the comment was aimed at "racist mother****ers" in his own country), but their lively set is only ever enhanced by the firmness of belief at the music's heart.

Maturity can be assessed by measuring firmness and sugar content.