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Since then it has firmly established its calamitous impact on the country's tree stock.

Roman Catholic theology preserves the early understanding of the Eucharist as a sacrifice in its teaching on the mass, and it has firmly insisted that the mass repeats the rite that Jesus told his disciples to repeat.

But it has firmly established itself as a symbol of Gateshead, and one that other towns seek to emulate.

It is less than a year since 2 Dope Queens (iTunes, WNYC) shot a comedy glitter cannon all over the podcast sphere, but it has firmly established itself as a guaranteed laugh-out-loud listen.

As the heir apparent to the portable-language-of-choice throne once held by the C programming language, it has firmly established itself as the de facto language for new application development today.

The anti-capitalist collective's reported objective is to "build democracy and solidarity from bottom to the top," and it has firmly condemned the budget restrictions imposed on Greece by the "troika" since 2010.

The Bechdel Test is a far from perfect measurement of the accuracy and integrity of gender portrayal, as Alison Bechdel herself has admitted, but it's one that has firmly stuck in film parlance and criticism.

PAGE D1 Editorial MR. OBAMA AND MR. WRIGHT It took more time than it should have, but Barack Obama has firmly rejected the racism and paranoia of his former pastor.

More recently, however, its staunch opposition to Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel and to King Abdullah's tacit support of the US-led war in Iraq has firmly put it in the opposition camp.

It was an event that has firmly etched itself in the fabric of American popular culture.

From its geographical distribution, it has been firmly associated with Xhosa customary usage of alcohol and homegrown and commercial tobacco, although there seems little doubt that the use of pipe tobacco in various forms is the principal determinant (Bradshaw et al, 1983).