Sentence examples for firmly pointed out from inspiring English sources

But I firmly pointed out that that was not fair, and that we should be more civil and understanding about it.

An odd stance, but remember defence is not a devolved issue for Nicola Sturgeon any more than it is for Labour's Kezia Dugdale, as the shadow defence secretary, Maria Eagle, firmly pointed out after Sunday's Perth vote.

Indeed, during his recent visit to Rome, it was politely but firmly pointed out that that his record in office was hardly that of a conscientious Catholic.More attractive to Mr Blair is probably the Roman church's vast international reach and professed interest in the poorest people in the world.

Inna firmly pointed out that everything they do at protests is for the cameras: "The action will go on until the last camera has left," she told the group.    .

Time and again, he corrected the President, politely but firmly pointing out that his proposals were being misrepresented.

Religion, the creators firmly point out, is showbiz, and they systematically dismantle the absurdities of Joseph Smith's 19th-century cod revelation through the intoxicating frivolity of musical conventions.

Update: As Geoff Dyer gently but firmly points out below, my remark about Sebald's influence on his work is pretty roundly contradicted by the chronology of publication.

This from the May edition: "New York punk progenitor Richard Hell writes to very firmly point out that he does not claim to have based his haircut on the French poet Rimbaud – a charge repeated in Mojo's review of his memoir, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp.

When it was pointed out firmly to the government that the section 75 regulations did in fact compel commissioners to introduce competition, the regulations were modified, and health ministers in both houses repeated the reassurances.

The seminar, which was the first of three in which the inquiry appears to be making a genuine attempt to understand some of the key issues, was open to the media and, as inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot pointed out, firmly on the public record.

He repeatedly pointed out that Mr. Romney had firmly opposed the federal bailout of the auto industry, which turned out to be the single biggest act of job creation in the last four years.