Sentence examples for firmly trained from inspiring English sources

I absolutely promise that I've got my sights firmly trained on Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne".

For now, Warthen and the Mets have their eyes more firmly trained on a more established starter.

But the spotlights and high-definition cameras are firmly trained on Evans and other serial floppers, forcing everyone to think twice before they flail.

In her place was That Cosmopolitan Girl, the idealized reader on whom Ms. Brown and her advertisers firmly trained their sights.

While the spotlights were firmly trained Monday on Jay Leno, his NBC late-night colleague-in-training Jimmy Fallon was busy making news of his own.

Finishing in the top seven is the minimum aim according to Bennett – "We haven't spoken about it in the dressing room but personally I think it is" – but now attentions are firmly trained on the Cup.

Mr. Cristofer keeps his eye trained firmly on the character's ambiguities, keeping the sensitivity and the brusqueness in perfect balance so that, like his children, the audience is never quite sure whether he's a man to be loved, condemned or pitied.

From there, "Katie" became a fairly standard talk show, with its eye trained firmly on celebrity.

Republicans gathering to formally nominate Mitt Romney in Tampa were forced to grapple Monday with a media that has one eye trained firmly on Tropical Storm Isaac — and that sent several of its biggest stars to cover the extreme weather.

Evans has his sights trained most firmly on Ferguson, who edited the 1997 essay collection Virtual Histories, which reinvigorated the genre.

They are extensively trained and work firmly in the control of precinct officers, with no pay except an allowance for the uniforms they smartly wear.