Sentence examples for firmly trying from inspiring English sources

"I am sorry, it doesn't meet our threshold," Victoria says firmly, trying to sound convincing.

Others disagree.In five years as premier, Mr Bouchard balanced the books and governed firmly, trying to create what he termed "winning conditions" for another referendum.

"You're not going to kill anybody," Staff Sgt. Derek Clifton of the 173rd Airborne Brigade told him firmly, trying to defuse a volatile situation in this oil-rich and ethnically divided city in northern Iraq.

For the last several months, he has spent most of his time off from work politely but firmly trying, with remarkably little success, to insinuate himself and his progressive ideas into the dialogue of the governor's race.

"But we're almost there — " "All the same," I said firmly, trying to clean myself up a little with a handkerchief, that other obsolete item, "I think my night is over".

All of us working to create new pathways so millions of girls can transcend their circumstances -- be it through advocacy or on the ground -- we are "the toddler," gently but firmly trying to turn faces, trying to say, "Pay attention".

Ms. Edwards firmly tried to persuade the woman's mother to take her to a hospital.

Conducting the sale with the same decorum that prevails at his fine art auctions, Mr. Ross politely but firmly tried to coax higher amounts from the two bidders still competing for the Italian beauty.

A veritable swarm made its way toward him as Jonathan Loughran and Allen Covert, two of those guys who frequently appear in Adam Sandler productions, politely but firmly tried to keep people away.

He explains, "The more fear whites had of Nat, the more firmly tried to believe in Sambo in order to escape paranoia".

Keep your feet planted firmly; try not let any muscle below your hips move.