Sentence examples for has steadfastly expanded from inspiring English sources

JANINE JANSEN Benjamin Britten's rarely heard Violin Concerto is a far cry from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons," with which Ms. Jansen first caught the music world's attention, but she has steadfastly expanded her horizons, or our sense of them.

The Republicans have steadfastly opposed expanding the hand recounts to Republican counties, or statewide, arguing that they are less accurate than machine counts and subject to error and mischief.

Although the United States has steadfastly fought efforts by countries such as Japan and Norway to expand whaling, it also has a treaty with the Makahs dating back to 1855, which grants them full rights to hunt whales.

By resisting the tendency displayed by other Asian countries like India to keep expanding its classes of "exempt" incomes, China has steadfastly increased its tax-to-GDP ratio.

Since arriving in Congress in 1999, Ryan has steadfastly voted for legislation that would ban federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research or expand the number of embryonic stem cell lines available to taxpayer-funded researchers.

He has steadfastly refused.

The government has steadfastly denied the reports.

Haakonsen has steadfastly maintained his message.

He has steadfastly denied such links.

Mr. Shuvalov has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing.

But this the government has steadfastly refused.