Sentence examples for he firmly held from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, President Reagan was seen as not committed to arms control because he firmly held to the position that unless a bilateral agreement on intermediate-range nuclear missiles could be reached, he would deploy such weapons on Western European soil by the end of the year to counter Russian missiles behind the Iron Curtain.

In one sense, he's more like Bernie than anyone else on this list: he's firmly held his stance on controversial issues when it wasn't necessarily en-vogue (sexism, family violence, the Iraq war).

But he now has firmly held convictions about how to handle pitchers, and they stand in direct opposition to baseball's prevailing orthodoxy — what he calls "the babying" of modern-day pitchers.

"This is an opportunity to hear from a high-profile industry insider on issues on which he has expressed firmly held, and sometimes controversial, views," the bumf for the event gushes.

So Locke has concluded that bodies can operate on one another through some means other than impulse, but he retains his firmly held belief that any such operation is not intelligible to us.

Later, as our "date" was winding down, he swiftly and firmly held my jaw in place and proceeded to kiss me.

And he still firmly holds to the position that dicing is a useful alternative to a 'therapy culture' in which we search constantly for our particular motivations, and agonise over the making the 'right' decision.

I said, "How do you know it was the analysis that changed you, and not simply the fact of getting older?" "That's a very common and firmly held idea," he said.

He heard countless stories of faith, mostly of the Protestant Christian variety predominant in the South, and he noted the power of a psychological crutch, firmly held.

"I admit to a firmly held prejudice," the book begins.

From the early days of the federation two principles were firmly held.