Sentence examples for firmly rather from inspiring English sources

But with the latest row over his accident-prone defence minister, he evidently felt obliged to act swiftly and firmly rather than let the matter drag on and cause more damage, as he had done with the Deutsche Telekom affair.Related items Charlemagne: Could Lothar Spä th mend Germany?

If you're uncertain, it's much better to let them know calmly but firmly rather than trying to listen to them anyway.

Use your hands or shoes to firmly tamp the soil over the top of the onions; they grow better in firm, rather than loose, soil.

If real closure is to come, if the sex abuse era is to be firmly ended rather than ever-so-slowly left behind, the beginning of this papacy is probably the church's last, best opportunity.

Staying calm will ground your thinking processes, helping you to stay firmly focused rather than being scared and over-reactive.

Instead I'll make an outright observation, a matter of firmly established fact rather than thinly informed speculation: many Republican up-and-comers around the country are deep into highly visible auditions for the job.

Our correspondent in 1932 would have put him firmly among the "rather exotic Westernised intelligentsia" in the post-coup government.

Faith communities often have a systemic propensity to infantilise people, fixed firmly in vulnerability rather than empowerment for human liberation.

But the ECB has been forced into operations it would once have abhorred on the grounds that they put it firmly into fiscal, rather than monetary, territory.

Generally speaking, then, the Tyrocinium proves that, by the middle of the 16th century, golf in the Netherlands was a firmly established and rather sophisticated game.

This is where unionlearn's Skills: Recession and Recovery (SRR) project comes into play, although, as national co-ordinator Kirsi Kekki points out, it remains firmly in recession rather than recovery.