Russia and China were firmly objecting to that.
That way, you've laid the groundwork that allows you to calmly but firmly object if your offspring get too bossy or overstep their boundaries.
I refuse to have Salafi zealots dictate to me how to live, just as I firmly object to bigoted islamophobes interfering in my personal choices, of what I should and should not wear.
William Shawn, the editor of The New Yorker in the nineteen-fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties, always objected, politely but firmly, when a writer wrote that something or someone was "very unique" or "more unique" than something or someone else.
"As I tested how firmly the object was lodged in its nose; it was clear that it was lodged into her nose very deeply," Nathan Robinson, who works with the sea turtle conservation organization Leatherback Trust, wrote in a blog post.
Time Warner also objected to Fox's plan to use non-voting shares as a component of the deal because that would keep the Murdoch family firmly in control.
Others, such as Selma Mountford of the Brighton Society conservation group, are more measured in their views, but object no less firmly to "this horrendous thing in the sky".
In this paper, the control of cooperative robots using only joint measurements is considered to manipulate an object firmly.
According to Chrysippus, the criterion of truth is the 'cognitive impression' (phantasia katalêptikê, lit. an impression that firmly grasps its object) (Diog. Laert., 40A).
