Sentence examples for is firmness from inspiring English sources
noun
The state of being firm; strength; permanence; stability; hardness; resolution.
His social-policy mantra is "firmness but fairness": acting tough on security while being fair towards minorities.
For 58-year-old Jonathan Youdan, owner of S&J Pantry and a pastor at the Mayfield Wesleyan Reform Church, in Fulwood, the key to winning his vote is firmness and fairness.
"For him [President Hollande], it is firmness, notably that exercised by France, which will make the resolution of the crisis by the UN a realistic prospect," writes Alain Barluet in Le Figaro.
Traits assessed were: firmness, acidity, sweetness, juiciness and crispness.
One component was firmness -- telling Iraq and the world "this will not stand", he rallied Arab states who were fearful of Saddam and uncertain of American resolve.
The only appropriate response, he added, "is unity, firmness and serenity".
There is a firmness to her voice when she says this, as if she had glimpsed the only thing she can hold fast to.
On this model of faith as belief, all that characterises faith apart from its theological content is the firmness or conviction with which faith-propositions are held true.
For the determination of the lysis index, the clot firmness prevailing 60 minutes after maximum clot firmness is reached, is divided by the maximum clot firmness.
What the poll did not register was the firmness of the predictions.
The striking and hopeful thing about the speeches given by the leaders of the major carbon-emitting nations was the firmness with which almost all of them reiterated their unilateral commitment to making significant, if inadequate, cuts in emissions.
