Sentence examples for day firmly from inspiring English sources
Goals either side of the break from Danny Graham and Moore put Swansea, who rejected Manchester City's £6.2m bid for Scott Sinclair earlier in the day, firmly in control.
However, Chopra's commanding innings ensured that Warwickshire ended the day firmly in charge.
The visitors' Australian fast bowler Hogan continued his form to take his personal wickets tally to nine for the match, but his side go into the final day firmly on the back foot.
Debutant Adeel Malik showed some aggression, hitting three boundaries and a six in his 25 off 23 balls, but Gloucestershire dismissed the hosts in just 45.4 overs before batting sensibly to end the day firmly on top.
Police commissioner Bill Bratton on Friday firmly requested that officers not turn their backs on the mayor again at Liu's funeral on Sunday.
This, though, was not the view of a High Court judge, who on Friday firmly rejected the protest group's application for a statutory review.
But one of those colleagues, Ephraim Sneh, in an interview on Friday, firmly rejected the idea that Israel's military actions were provoking specific terrorist acts.
ATHENS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will lay out his radical left-wing government's policies in a speech later on Sunday, firmly rejecting any more austerity forced on his debt-strapped country by its euro zone partners.
Zahra's appearance is clearly at odds with typical white-washed representations of royal, wealthy, attractive Middle Eastern women, but her look encompassed the cultural feeling of the time, as the abrou-ye peyvasteh or "continuous eyebrow"—sat firmly on a pedestal.
And by Wednesday, when the number hit two million, "Groundhog Day" was firmly established as one of the most-viewed videos in YouTube's brief history.
He was for the most part content to work within the established formal and harmonic conventions of his day, still firmly rooted in tonality i.e., the organization of music around focal tones.
