It will require considerable firmness, determination, creativity, and, yes, patience.
"In this century we learned through harsh experience that the only answer to aggression and illegal behavior is firmness, determination and, when necessary, action," Clinton said.
As president and commander in chief of the Confederate forces, Davis revealed many fine qualities, including dignity, firmness, determination, and honesty, but he was flawed by his excessive pride, hypersensitivity to criticism, poor political skills, and tendency to micromanage.
Hewn from the remains of a British Arctic exploration vessel with "especially strong timbers" whose name means, "Set in purpose or opinion, characterized by firmness and determination," she stands in stark opposition to our current presidential choices.
Some residents booed him, while three police unions called on the government to show firmness and determination in response to the violence and the attacks on police officers.
As the country's fifth president in five years, Mr. Noboa is seen as little more than a caretaker until next year's election, and has not demonstrated much firmness or determination since coming to power.
As president and commander in chief of the Confederate forces, Davis revealed many fine qualities, including patience, courage, dignity, restraint, firmness, energy, determination, and honesty; but he was flawed by his excessive pride, hypersensitivity to criticism, and inability to delegate minor details to his subordinates.
The amazing peacefulness of the youth which surprisingly contradicted their firmness and determination to bring down a dictator, one who had ruled by corruption and deception for three decades.
"Groups that are characterized by violence, and it's not the first time that they have done this, assaulted and attacked the security forces," he told Radio Fórmula "We have acted with firmness and determination, we are not going to allow them to hurt others, to hurt the institutions, because in that way they are also hurting Mexicans".
Determination, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, firmness (of purpose), steadfastness, backbone, drive, push, thrust, enthusiasm, ambition, initiative, enterprise, motivation, single-mindedness, commitment, conviction, dedication; get-up-and-go.
