"The Islamic mujahid movement was not defeated, by the grace of God; indeed, because of its patience, steadfastness, and thoughtfulness, it is headed toward victory," he writes.
Known today as "flake white", it was prized by Old Masters such as Rembrandt because of the steadfastness of its colour and the beautiful contrasts it would bring to their oil portraits.
Odio Mimonet, who shows at Lagos Fashion & Design Week, said that when she started her brand 16 years ago, she began buying Vlisco fabrics "for the smoothness of its feel and the steadfastness of the dyes, not to mention the vitality of its colors and the fact that it is timeless, somewhat classic and also lasts a lifetime".
What still impresses about this series is the purity and steadfastness of its vision – in a world where big games now more or less handhold you through the entire campaign, Dark Souls 3 treats its players as equals, a considerable compliment.
ASEAN, South-East Asia's regional club, deliberately chose Bali as the site of its annual summit to show steadfastness in the face of terrorism and to promote the island's recovery.
Like Faulkner's "Sound and the Fury," it germinated from the unlikely image of its protagonist up in a tree and grew into an earnest endorsement of steadfastness: "An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent".
It is so called from the title of its first book, which contains poems descriptive of fortitude in battle, patient endurance of calamity, steadfastness in seeking vengeance, and constancy under reproach and in temptation in a word, the attribute of ḥamāsah.
At this time of high anxiety, the pioneer image speaks to us of resilience and steadfastness, of vision and risk-taking, and of the call to a new future.
"It is this combination of flexibility and steadfastness, of conciliation and conviction, that more than anything else makes a situation ripe for resolution".
It's music of steadfastness and endurance, of uncompromising determination.
