Sentence examples for firmly was from inspiring English sources

"That," Ms. Hurwitz said firmly, "was the way I was brought up".

What he said to me, very firmly, was that the reason he wanted me to come back was to bring more structure, order and discipline to the organization.

Sukarno was persuaded to invest him with emergency powers and then, politely but firmly, was made to stand aside.The better to winkle out the communists, Suharto set up two intelligence agencies.

Already, costs were three times higher than originally expected.This episode, when "the first thing that happened was that expenditure took off into the stratosphere and had to be sat upon very firmly", was long etched into the collective memory of senior health and finance officials, says Jeremy Hurst, a health economist at the OECD.

She was unfazed by a majority of the criticism, but the assumption she rejected the most firmly was about her upbringing.

An alternative interpretation, however, is that the passage in Bede should be translated as "Rædwald, king of the East Angles, who while Æthelberht lived, even conceded to him the military leadership of his people"; if this is Bede's intent, then East Anglia firmly was under Æthelberht's overlordship.

"Being in the Specials," says Golding firmly, "is wonderful".

But the only leg still standing firmly is Social Security.

He referred to Scottish "snouts firmly being in the trough".

"No day," she says firmly, "is a good day".

"They," she says firmly, "are strong women".