In 2009, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, said, "The United States will lead in the 21st century — not with hubris, not by hectoring — but through patient diplomacy and steadfast resolve to strengthen our common security by investing in our common humanity".
Our unity is a kinship of grief and a steadfast resolve to prevail against our enemies.
But others said they would miss Mr. Klaus's steadfast resolve.
The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said on Wednesday he had a "steadfast" resolve to prevent people smugglers.
El Tri won with a style and character that should be familiar to the Americans: falling behind early, refusing to surrender, prevailing with steadfast resolve.
The plea would bring an abrupt resolution to a case that for some time seemed ensnarled in doubts over Mr. Loughner's mental health and a seemingly steadfast resolve among prosecutors to bring him to trial.
"My steadfast resolve is to build on the success of the recent past so that one day in the near future, fundamental kindness and respect are attitudes that are taken as 'givens' in these relationships," Mr. Boehner said.
Pearl Harbor, he said, was the start of a "long and terrible" war for America, yet out of that attack grew the most powerful Navy in the world and a "steadfast resolve" to defend freedom.
Instead of aiming for the sentimental jugular, she imbued both anthems with an unornamented clarity and a feeling of warm, steadfast resolve that were appropriate to the moment and gratefully welcomed.
He kept at it, modeling the late Vandersloot's calm, steadfast resolve.
