The army claims that, instead of coming to an agreement, Mr Speight keeps bringing new demands to the negotiating table.This new military firmness still leaves a lot of uncertainties in Fiji.
The reason of man, like man himself is timid and cautious, when left alone; and acquires firmness and confidence, in proportion to the number with which it is associated.
She also quotes Madison's statement that "the reason of man, like man himself, is timid and cautious when left alone, and acquires firmness and confidence in proportion to the number with which it is associated" (BPF, 234).
Here, staring back at me, are all the "stigmata of aging," as Imber calls them, a map of ruin delineating the erosions left by time, sun and life experience: laugh lines, worry lines, furrows, nasolabial folds, hooded upper eyelid skin, decreased firmness in the jaw line and -- God help me -- the neck.
Knowing that her life had included the public humiliation of losing a husband to Elizabeth Taylor, two more marriages that left her on the edge of financial ruin, a roller coaster of a screen and stage career, health issues and raising two children more or less on her own, I was a bit taken back by the firmness of Debbie Reynolds' declaration.
3. Back Support – the firmness or give of the mattress.
In his emotional letter of resignation to the IMF, his first public comments since being pulled off a flight about to leave New York's JFK airport on Saturday, Mr Strauss-Kahn said he denied the allegations "with the greatest possible firmness".
Hollande said firmness was absolutely necessary otherwise "the principles of the European Union will be questioned" and "other countries or other parties will be minded to leave the European Union in order to have the supposed benefits and no downsides or rules".
At the time, the Vatican found Hunthausen lacking in "firmness necessary to govern the archdiocese" and said he had not upheld official church positions in granting annulments, offering general absolution, working with homosexual groups, administering health-care institutions and instructing clergy leaving the priesthood.
This will give some weight and firmness to your invitation.
