Diplomatic but firm suggestions for improvement: Here you must be specific and concrete.
There are reticent but firm suggestions that the brilliant cameraman was more committed to his work than to his marriage.
He offers suggestions about how most of them can be resolved, in some cases firm suggestions, but he doesn't pretend to have final answers.
If you're an exercise shirker because you're fat or old or asthmatic or chained to your computer or just plain lazy or all of those things rolled into one super-health disaster zone, they will come to you in the form perhaps, of a stern lady with a clipboard and make some firm suggestions.
This was met with a gentle but firm suggestion that I couldn't be expected to think clearly in this emotional state, and besides, didn't I realise that there were plenty of women out there who couldn't conceive and would give anything to be in my shoes?
He writes that "individuals, fluent in difficult languages and able to pass as native members of other cultures, will have to befriend and win acceptance by their own societies' enemies," and he adds that fiction may supply "firmer suggestions as to how the war against terrorism should be fought than academic training courses in intelligence technique".
With a little under 20 minutes to go, the Columbus keeper gave DC the firmest suggestion yet that this would not be their day, with a sequence of reflex saves, including a point blank block from Dwayne De Rosario, that left the DC captain shaking his head.
The firm's suggestions that swapping of files by its users counted as "fair use", and that such swapping was protected by a previous case relating to the use of video recorders for time shifting, were both rejected.
Zhejiang Capital Investment Promotion Association, Zhejiang Hang Tianxin Law Firm: "Citizens' Suggestions on Requesting the Examination of the Legality and Rationale of the Regulatory Documents [(Jin ZhengFa, [2009] No. 10) and (Jin ZhengFa, [2008] No. 23)] of Shanxi Provincial Government", November 9, 2009.
Given that Cameron won't want to combine his reshuffle with PMQs on Wednesday, that firms up suggestions that the reshuffle is coming tomorrow.
TDC, Denmark's leading phone company, has attracted the attention of several private-equity firms, and suggestions have emerged that Deutsche Telekom, Germany's biggest phone company, and Swisscom, another market leader, may be interested too.
