Sentence examples for operated firmly from inspiring English sources

And although he often operated firmly in Miroslav Klose's shadow, his influence peaked around Euro 2012, with five goals in qualifying and three in the tournament itself – making him joint top scorer with Fernando Torres.

The two most popular movies of last year operated firmly on the nostalgia principle.

Policing in any democracy is most effective when it operates firmly on the basis of consent, legitimacy and trust.

"The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm the citizens of the state of Israel and will continue to operate firmly against anyone who uses terror against it.

While Brooklyn's the Men (not all of them are, as it goes) operate firmly within the parameters laid down in the early days of US indie-rock – guitars, distortion, weirdness, melody, more or less in that order – they seem to have read around the subject so much that if we were to start naming all the bands and records echoed on their third album, we'd be here all night.

Thirdly, they operate firmly within prevailing social and gendered norms.

In theory this isn't an awful idea considering that a lot of the VR owners right now operate firmly within the early adopter arena and would theoretically be very open to a model like this.

As one imagines from the I/O partnership, Wear 3100 has Google's smartwatch operating system firmly in its sites.

Those schemes were operated when Rangers were firmly in the grip of David Murray and his business group.

Despite his hatred of the Wahabbis, Suleiman took the mothers to their latest middleman, a shady character named Said, a self-proclaimed Wahabbi who nevertheless lived and operated in a town firmly under Russian control.

They operated, not through the air waves, or under the sea, but firmly on the ground.