Sentence examples for it more firmly from inspiring English sources

Other changes would have modernised the army, removing its responsibility for internal security and placing it more firmly under civilian control.Some of these proposals formed part of the 1996 agreement that ended a civil war in which perhaps 200,000 people had died (most of them Mayan civilians killed by the army).

Past presidents had allowed it to run on its own, controlled by the faculty, while Summers wanted to bring it more firmly into the university's control.

He has grasped it more firmly than McKim, Mead & White.

"You need to hit it more firmly to get it up onto the grass," he said.

"This narrows the organization and pushes it more firmly into the hands of religious conservatives and the right wing," Mr. Rice said.

In the meantime, she married, had two children, wrote 100 poems and worked on her writing voice, steering it away from Auden's England and rooting it more firmly in the Bronx where she grew up.

If soccer isn't as popular in the United States as it is in Europe and South America, it is more firmly established than ever.

The resolve would have been more effective had it been applied earlier in Mr Putin's presidency; it would make a bigger impression if it were more firmly and quickly backed up by Britain's European partners.

Jackson was a vehicle for something divine, and so, perhaps, we find it pleasing to tether him more firmly to our world, by proving that he is exactly as shoddy and vulgar as we all are.

Watsuji contends that had Heidegger equally emphasized spatiality, it would have tied him more firmly to the human world where we interact, both fruitfully and negatively.

That means it has to be crippled now, before it gets more firmly established.