Sentence examples for may be firmly from inspiring English sources
— The image of the quintessential American surfer — a bronzed slacker in board shorts — may be firmly entrenched.
By October, political positions may be firmly entrenched, she said, "and meaningful dialogue on sensitive issues may no longer be possible".
His characters may be firmly middle class, but they possess an aristocratic sense of detachment, of being above the world and its petty problems.
Osborne may be firmly behind a concert hall, but where is its audience going to come from when children's music education is in danger of withering?
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may be firmly in the 1 percent, but he does tithe 10 percent of his income to the Mormon Church.
His feet may be firmly under the desk, but rather than relaxing into a comfortable position in the Paris establishment, the Belgian designer is looking at this rarified world with the fresh eyes of an outsider.
Murray's tongue may well be firmly in his cheek, yet he is following in a literary tradition that portrays fictional architects as egotistical, over-ambitious and perhaps even insane monsters.
Even if your child is a toddler, his or her sexual orientation may already be firmly in place... not that they are thinking about it yet.
But the election in Massachusetts and the reaction of the media and markets is sending a message to our friends and enemies that the American people may not be firmly behind our president anymore.
The loops around the empty active site may well be firmly closed in the frozen state that is being observed but they are probably free to open and close due to thermal fluctuations at working temperatures.
Most women who reported a desire to delay or to avoid childbearing reported an experienced pregnancy as wanted then, suggesting that fertility desires may not be firmly held or that women are willing and able to accept an unintended pregnancy in these pro-natalist cultures.
