United in sending Iraq a message of firmness in an initial resolution, the Security Council will, we have no doubt, remain united to assume all of its responsibilities during the second stage, should Iraq violate its commitments.
Mr. Sarkozy's approval ratings are hovering around 30 percent, a historic low, but loyalists say he will now be able to contrast his firmness in carrying through a historic reform with the behavior of previous governments that backed down in the face of the "democracy of the streets".
Without missing a beat, and with a noticeable firmness in tone, he answered: "If you don't have a dream, you have nothing.
McKinley biographer H. Wayne Morgan notes, "McKinley was the guiding spirit behind the annexation of Hawaii, showing ... a firmness in pursuing it"; the President told Cortelyou, "We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California.
Quality measures included; fresh weight, taken on a Mettler Toledo balance sensitive to the nearest 0.1 g; maximum width, measured using callipers sensitive to 0.1 mm; firmness in kg/cm, taken using a Silverline penetrometer and percentage sugar concentration or Brix, using a Hanna refractometer.
"But when you have a firmness in the right, you proceed".
"But we're seeing a real firmness in the marketplace for retailers that used the last couple of years to get their house in order".
Dove-Edwin served in London for six years, the longest any Nigerian ambassador has stayed in the British capital, and he is still recalled with affection by many as someone who worked hard for the improvement of relations, while retaining a calm firmness in protecting national and African interests.
However, other cell wall related genes (e.g. a fascilin-like arabinogalactanan protein gene, CmFAG cCL1228Contig1) were more highly expressed in PS than in Ved, suggesting that loss of fruit firmness in PS is mediated by a different set of enzymes and is probably independent of ethylene signalling.
