Sentence examples for firmly geared from inspiring English sources

There is a tradition of newspaper vendors, milkmen and dabbawalas – so-called "livelihood cyclists" – who depend on sturdy, black locally made bikes to go about their business, but, as the UCL's Andrew Harris argues, transport policy is firmly geared towards the car.

Yet Europe remains firmly in reverse gear.

Writing in The Independent on Sunday, he says the EU "remains firmly in reverse gear" in the face of a "desperate humanitarian situation" and that talks about British membership are a distraction.

Timothy Olyphant's drawlin', brawlin', Stetson-sportin' US marshal Raylan Givens has verbose criminal kingpin Boyd Crowder firmly in his sights, a showdown for which viewers have been gearing up for six years.

Spinetta's resignation likely means that either Air France is gearing up to make a bid for Alitalia, or that the French carrier has firmly decided not to make an offer for its rival.

However, having done this for a few years now, I firmly believe that all the gear in the world won't automatically result in amazing music.

Then, unable to change gear but with the transmission firmly locked into first, he guided the vast green vehicle on to the stage of a hotel auditorium.

"Over the next five years we have a window of opportunity to shift gear and put the global HIV response firmly on the fast-track to end the AIDS epidemic".

Her left hand was firmly on the steering wheel, her right fist tight around the gear stick.

But after Jeremy Clarkson and his entourage left Top Gear, his on-air replacement has emerged as even more firmly in the driving seat.

Cruising in sixth gear is quiet, the gearchange is light and easy, the brakes pull you up firmly.