Sentence examples for firmness with from inspiring English sources

And his firmness with government ministers did not diminish.

Growers determine the proper time for harvest with instruments, gauging firmness with a penetrometer, and sweetness with a refractometer.

"In collecting the licence fee the BBC must balance firmness with fairness," said the BBC Trust chairman, Sir Michael Lyons.

Mr Aznar, who survived an ETA assassination attempt in 1995, trumpets the results of his firmness with the regions.

Maxim Mironov was outstanding in the Rubini role of Ermano, singing with tones that mixed firmness with head-voice flexibility.

One of the jumpsuited operatives stood atop the boards, testing their firmness with apparent satisfaction, while the other quickly loaded the cones into the back of the truck.

Affability combined with dignity Mildness with firmness Bluntness with respectfulness Ability with reverence Docility with boldness Straightforwardness with gentleness Easiness with discrimination Vigour with sincerity Valour with goodness.

Some pillows were described with fill power, some with degree of firmness, some with amount of fill.

This is the moment to make multilateralism, pursued with determination and firmness, work with Iran.

He always treated those he questioned on the Radio 4 Today programme - where he was co-presenter from 1970 to 1976, and from 1978 to 1986 - with firmness, but also with respect.

Tricolons were Lincoln's rhetorical mainstay ("With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right").