Many banks, particularly European ones, have steadfastly kept up their dividend payments throughout the crisis, despite pleas from regulators to cut dividends and concentrate on rebuilding capital levels.
Yet Bergen County -- affluent, densely populated and a stone's throw from New York and home to just about every major retailer in the Northeast -- has steadfastly chosen to keep the doors shut on Sunday.
This, after all, is a White House that has steadfastly tried to keep "enemy combatants" beyond the purview of American courts, whose defence secretary has publicly declared that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to the battle against al-Qaeda and whose Justice Department once produced an infamous memorandum explaining how torture was part of the president's war powers.
Despite previous calls from prominent Democrats and Monroe County's Republican Supervisor of Elections Harry Sawyer, Republican Governor Rick Scott has steadfastly refused to keep polls open beyond an 8-day early voting period that ended Saturday at 7 p.m. -- or make that Sunday 1 a.m., when the last voter in line in Miami-Dade was finally able to cast a ballot.
Despite the current crew of Canadian Soldiers of Odin members knowing full well who Mika Ranta is and what the name implies they have still steadfastly kept the title.
I know of a highly-rated England Under-20s hopeful farmed out this season by his Premiership club to a Championship side to keep him match-fit, whose new coach has steadfastly refused to pick him.
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.
Feinstein, who has steadfastly defended the NSA's mass surveillance programs, added that both Barack Obama and members of her committee, which is supposed to received classified briefings, had been kept in the dark about operations to target foreign leaders.
He has steadfastly refused.
The government has steadfastly denied the reports.
