"I know, I firmly believe, that decisions I have made were necessary to secure the country".
But the frontman, whose penalty-taking prowess is well known, was firmly backing himself to score all the same.
The Sheikh also said that he and everyone he knew was firmly convinced that "the Jews" were behind September 11th, the invasion of Iraq, globalization, and just about everything that he might label "pernicious" in the course of our conversation.
Indeed, you might argue that my team - Arsenal - has nothing to do with England at all and yet, in a way, it has quite a lot in common with the London I know - firmly rooted in the area, with a proud tradition of cultural and racial variety.
Despite the different views on the future of the EU, I do know – and firmly believe – that we should not lose sight of this one goal that every single European country has in common and will continue to pursue: peace.
Caroline Chung Simpson, an associate professor of English at the University of Washington, said: "I think Ichiro's appeal to most Asian-Americans I know is firmly tied to his having proven the stereotypes about Asian men wrong.
gluttons for punishment, know, I firmly believe that the popular vote is a relevant moral category, even when, as is uniquely the case with our Presidential contests among elections that can be described as free, the popular vote is a juridical irrelevancy.
As regular readers of this column know, I firmly believe we're headed for a time of benign price deflation, propelled by increasing productivity and the resulting excess supply.
It is not implausible to argue that we sometimes or often act or think on the basis of tentative views, or on the explicit assumption that something is the case (which we don't know or firmly believe).
"This technology would enable the user to know how firmly they are gripping an object, which is vital for handling fragile objects - imagine picking up an egg without any feeling in your fingers".
