The music came from her firm and sure.
His is not a huge voice, but it is as firm and sure as his command of verismo style.
Vigorous and firm and sure of his own position, in his own time he seems to have been admired rather than loved, even by his intimates.
Ms. Segarra said these policies typically defined what constituted various conflicts, how the bank might penalize employees who violated those rules and also how the firm made sure that it did not inadvertently promote questionable behavior.
Alan Fried, a real estate partner at the Braverman and Associates law firm, made sure that a client met his mortgage-rate deadline recently on a $2.2 million mortgage for a $3.25 million apartment in Chelsea.
Instead, she went to work at a property valuation firm, "making sure the toilets are clean, filling vending machines, counting £1,000 of coins, putting people through redundancy, working in HR, teaching people about the Data Protection Act".
Mr. Pasquarelli's firm made sure the Porter House project would be built, however, by recruiting a developer, Jeffrey M. Brown, to put together the deal, and joining it as minority partners.
A word of warning: if you're going to compare your wage against that of someone else at your own firm make sure you check the company policy on pay confidentiality.
Condorcet rhapsodized: "How welcome to the philosopher is this picture of the human race, freed from all its chains, released from the domination of chance and from that of the enemies of progress, advancing with a firm and sure step on the path of truth, virtue, and happiness".
In the less than 1percentt chance of error, the clearing firm makes sure everyone is on the same page prior to settlement.
