"Up until now, major apparel brands have steadfastly refused to take any direct financial responsibility for the obligations to the workers in their contractors' factories.
Steadfastly, I repeated my question.
Over half of its food parcels went to people facing welfare cuts or delays in benefit payments, it said, in a direct challenge to ministers who have steadfastly refused to accept that there is any link between cuts to social security and the explosion in food bank use.
Putin referred to the region as Novorossiya ("New Russia"), evoking claims from the imperial era, and, although all signs pointed to direct Russian involvement in the insurgency, Putin steadfastly denied having a hand in the fighting.
I suggest the writer direct her anger toward the Department of Health, which steadfastly refuses either to conduct or permit a follow-up study of the data they already have, to determine the magnitude of abortion-related risk in older women.
This is not only objectively false -- Israel has never annexed the West Bank -- but it is also in direct contradiction to 47 years of US government policy, which has steadfastly refused to recognize the West Bank as part of Israel.
As directed by Mr. Wolfe, who staged "Angels" on Broadway, "Caroline" steadfastly resists easy opportunities to work its audience into a lather.
The motivation for the crime was to avoid losing control over Congo's resources, but Belgium steadfastly denied any involvement until new evidence collected by a parliamentary commission last year confirmed the direct role of Belgian agents in carrying out and covering up the murder.
To suggest that he alone was responsible for creating a mass movement on global poverty is a direct insult to the millions of people around the world who have worked steadfastly for debt cancellation, trade justice, women's rights, workers' rights and environmental sustainability over decades.
Even so, many Goldman employees are stunned by the public resentment directed at the bank in general and Mr. Blankfein in particular, who, after first steadfastly defending Goldman's profits and pay, recently offered a vague apology for "mistakes" that led to the financial crisis.
Republicans are arguing that individuals should have direct control over how their Social Security money is invested an idea that Clinton and Democrats have steadfastly resisted.
