Bosnia-Herzegovina, for example, where Islam long existed in a steadfastly secular environment, saw an explosion of Saudi-financed mosques and an influx of Muslims practicing a puritanical Wahhabi faith in the 1990s, as civil war there wound down.
I have practiced law in New York for 28 years and have steadfastly defended my profession from the barbs and so-called jokes aimed at it in recent years.
But Mr. Twombly, a tall, rangy Virginian who once practiced drawing in the dark to make his lines less purposeful, steadfastly followed his own program and looked to his own muses: often literary ones like Catullus, Rumi, Pound and Rilke.
But Mr. Twombly, a tall, rangy Virginian who once practiced drawing in the dark to make his lines less purposeful, steadfastly followed his own program and looked to his own muses — often literary ones, like Catullus, Rumi, Pound and Rilke.
In a statement, Wright Investors' Services said that the company had "steadfastly supported S.E.E.'s mission of promoting the advancement of ethical behavior" and "we also practice what we preach".
A growing number of Democrats in Congress, meanwhile, cited the article in renewing their longstanding demands for Mr. Trump to release his income tax returns, something he has steadfastly declined to do, breaking with four decades of practice by previous presidents.
The Census Bureau has steadfastly resisted calls to end the practice of counting inmates as "residents" of their prisons instead of the cities and towns where they lived and to which they typically return.
But the Bloomberg administration has steadfastly opposed suggestions to curb the widespread use of the practice, in which police stop people on the street on the suspicion that they have committed a crime.
But John S. Martin Jr., a former federal judge and United States attorney in Manhattan who was hired to coordinate the city's response to the subpoenas, said the arrangement was a normal practice, especially in corporate cases, and depends on the lawyer steadfastly honoring his obligation to his client.
Medicine as a whole is the most conservative of social services, and in order to change practice in healthcare institutions, it is essential to gradually but steadfastly change the attitudes of health care workers, the majority of whom received Soviet education and are committed to old Soviet methods.
And while the legal remedies to punish suicide victims had largely disappeared from American practice – namely, forfeiture of the suicide victim's inheritance to the state – the stigma surrounding suicide steadfastly remained at the outbreak of the Civil War.
