Sentence examples for Firmly explained from inspiring English sources

On the final day, Dad took me to one side and firmly explained that I wasn't going back with them.

Eventually my father, a recent immigrant who spoke little English, met with my teacher and firmly explained the importance of calling me by my actual name — and how to pronounce it correctly.

A month into the term, the professor, Charles Long, gently but firmly explained that he didn't expect me to offer novel insights into "The Faerie Queen" or "Paradise Lost".

Northern Ireland's Muslim surgeons and businessmen calmly but firmly explained that they were not amused.To calm things down, first Mr Robinson and then his Irish Republican deputy, Martin McGuinness, paid emollient visits to the Islamic Centre and praised Muslims' role in Ulster society.

Calmly but firmly explain what you're doing, and acknowledge that the tourniquet may be painful.

Passengers may appeal to a guard who will quietly but firmly explain: "dame desu"—it's not allowed.

With 14 years on the job, she calmly but firmly explains that she will be able to handle the problem.

The simplest might be to have your boyfriend sit down with his mother, without your being present, and firmly explain the situation to her.

"Leaving children wealth is like leaving them a case of psychological cancer," Mr. Rogers said firmly, explaining that he believes a child can never gain a sense of his true worth under such circumstances.

He must respect all creatures "from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope" and when Simba points out that they eat the antelope, Mufasa quietly but firmly explains that when lions die, they become grass "and the antelope eat the grass, and so we are all connected in the Circle of Life".

"I did have them softened," she parries firmly, explaining that once the orange cushions arrive it will be more comfortable.