I'm talking about confidently and firmly voicing opinions, making recommendations and taking initiative when it comes to solving problems.
At this point, Stewart broke, still staring firmly downwards but now, to his mortification, crying on camera, red-eyed and raspy voiced.
The single encore was a beautifully voiced performance of Elgar's Nimrod – a tribute, Dudamel suggested, to a London audience now firmly part of the orchestra's history.
All over the square, women who were on their own were standing firmly in large clusters of angry men, voicing their demands.
He is increasingly voicing misogynist views and now firmly believes that women's place is in the home and they are subservient to men.
But when she was in front of the police or the military, he said, "se engrandec__ía" — she grew big — "speaking firmly, elevating her voice with strength.
"The fact that in December we actually began to speak more firmly with one voice was a way of giving us a stronger political credibility to match that economic strength," she said.
But the countries of the West would be doing both themselves and the Russian people a favour by speaking firmly, with one voice, on human rights, democracy, the rule of law and the brutal war in Chechnya.
Representative Howard P. McKeon of California, the top Republican on the education committee, called that language "a stealth provision to eliminate the scholarship program," because obtaining votes to preserve it in both the Congress and the District of Columbia Council set "an impossible standard with anti-school-choice voices firmly in control" in Congress.
