Sentence examples for a firmness from inspiring English sources

Through contract CRAFT-1999-70106, funded by the European Union, the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA) has designed a firmness sensor capable of classifying peaches in three categories: very firm, firm and not firm.

"She wants to maintain a firmness, and I think a lot of people around her hope she maintains a firmness.

This has a firmness and consistency which is rather comfortable.

"But when you have a firmness in the right, you proceed".

His voice was reedy, but he spoke with a firmness and maturity that belied his air of fragility.

The unusually warm temperatures have baked the greens to a firmness that is unfamiliar to habitués of the tournament.

And when he spoke, he did so not in anger but with conviction, a gentle firmness, and an easy smile that disarmed rather than threatened.

The final setting time is the point at which the set cement has acquired a sufficient firmness to resist a certain defined pressure.

Without missing a beat, and with a noticeable firmness in tone, he answered: "If you don't have a dream, you have nothing.

During ripening fleshy fruits undergo a loss of firmness, a process known as softening, and several genes coding for different cell wall degrading enzymes are involved in this process [ 20, 21].

Rare meat will be soft and wobbly, medium will have a springy firmness and well done will feel very firm and unyielding.