Victoria Sharp London Music Masters Jeremy Hunt's firm expression of commitment to the arts on all levels, from local to national, is enormously encouraging.
As yet, there has been no firm expression of interest in him from Real Madrid, with Arsenal having made the only firm move, although Chelsea have also been touted as considering a bid for Suarez.
Philip Marshall QC, acting for the club on company law issues, said the board had narrowed down a field of 130 inquiries – from which 27 firm expressions of interest had arisen – with the advice of Barclays Capital and had accepted the best offer.
There's always a lot of uncertainty and provisional statements, which are heavily qualified, can be seized upon as firm expressions of policy.
Friendly is assisted, of course, by the subject matter of his documentaries, which frequently involve issues that invite firm expressions of opinion.
There's always a lot of uncertainty — and provisional statements, which are heavily qualified, can be seized upon as firm expressions of policy.
"It becomes plain that any summing up of Morrison's work would be a fraud," writes Greil Marcus in the introduction, as firm an expression of what not to expect from his book as if he had given it the subtitle: "This is not a biography".
His round, pink-checked face assumed the firm, benevolent expression of a man who is about to remove a painful splinter from a child's finger.
These firm injunctions are an expression of Islamic orthodoxy, but the very number of poetic divans that contain sections devoted to wine poetry illustrates the extent to which poetry could be used to confront such religious attitudes.
This is a firm belief of mine.
