Sentence examples for is as firm from inspiring English sources

The result is a rigid, continuous structure in which the joint is as firm as the member and which distributes stresses between beams and columns.

The course is as firm as it's been all week, and only likely to get even firmer as the day gets longer.

It remains to be seen whether Mr Sharon's commitment to a two-state resolution is as firm as that of his former deputy prime minister.

"The system in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is politically stable and is as firm as a rock," the state-run Korean Central News Agency said.

There then began one of those quintessentially British rows in which the customer is as aggrieved as he can be without actually being rude, and the management is as firm as it can be without actually losing custom.

To that end, America must demonstrate to its allies who feel threatened by Iran not just Israel, but Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states too that its commitment to extending nuclear deterrence to them is as firm as it was to Europe at the height of the cold war.

Gore has never impressed me as being as firm as Clinton.

"You've got to hit fairways when the rough is as tough and the greens are as firm as this.

Not all automakers are as firm as the Big Three in opposing action on greenhouse gases.

Peace groups such as Sane and the Freeze campaign, environmentalists in the League of Conservation Voters and Friends of the Earth, plus groups that count themselves as "populist," such as Citizen Action - all are as firm as ever in their leftward philosophical commitments.

Wales, though, are as firm as at any point on this Brussels night, even managing the odd counter.