Sentence examples for issues firmly from inspiring English sources
Menzies Campbell, foreign affairs spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, said Mr Kennedy would be raising human rights issues "firmly but respectfully" when he met the Chinese president.
Placing women's issues firmly at the heart of his leadership campaign, Corbyn committed to a regular gender audit of Labour policies to ensure the party is engaged in moving towards gender equality in society.
With economic issues firmly in hand, investors are likely to focus on the ongoing flood of earnings reports.
Hopefully this year the men the public really care about - the drivers - can again put on a spectacle that keeps F1's other issues firmly in the background.
The movement has placed several issues firmly on the national agenda.
With today WIPO has put these issues firmly on its agenda, acknowledging that in a healthy and competitive knowledge economy more IP is not always better.
He tells them: "The prime advantage … is to place the 'management and control' issue firmly outside a high tax jurisdiction".
By its actions, Israel has put the Palestinian issue firmly back on the international agenda from which it had largely disappeared since the Arab uprisings of 2011.
Earlier this season, when Steelers running back Willie Parker complained publicly that Pittsburgh wasn't running enough, Tomlin dealt with the issue firmly without being overly harsh.
Yet even as demonstrations and anger have erupted in cities across the country in recent years, pushing this issue firmly into the national consciousness, the actual pace of deadly shootings remains unchanged.
In 2011, with the whole nonpareil musical genius/dippy woman who says "wow" issue firmly sorted out in most people's minds, her behaviour seems to grow more inscrutable still.
