She looked around over the shoulder of someone giving her a supportive hug, and she said suddenly, tearfully, "If we are doing the right thing, why are we all crying?" At that instant, the knock came solidly at the door, followed by the requisite bark, "Cease deliberations!" The officer swung the door open, and I stood there with the sheet in my hand.
Most of his conquests in Transoxiana were lost in the years after his death; only in the 740s was the Muslim position restored to the line reached by Qutayba, and only after the Battle of Talas in 751 did the region come solidly under Muslim control.
He is a balding, overweight, middle-aged man who is not especially telegenic, though he comes across solidly on television.
Now, a long-awaited study, by a group widely perceived to be politically neutral, comes in solidly behind the earlier EPA decision and strongly implicates the particles in excess deaths.
One thing the report comes out solidly in favor of is treating the lineup as a double-blind scientific experiment neither the witness nor the presiding officer should know in advance whether the suspect is in the lineup.
There has been an ongoing debate in legal circles on whether obstruction of justice can take place without evidence of a crime to investigate, and Mr Barr comes down solidly, if not entirely, on the "no" side.
While Don Quixote comes down solidly on the side of the warrior, our speakers usually explore the interdependence of both disciplines, often provoking animated classroom discussions.
"The Supreme Court came down solidly committed to both sides, not solidly for either side," said State Senator Scott Beason, a Republican who was a leading sponsor of the immigration bill.
Most of his outs now come on solidly hit balls.
Only one came out solidly on the side of the president with a "no" vote.
