Sentence examples for rather firmly from inspiring English sources

"Greece could never have gone into Iraq," said Captain Dimitris, rather firmly.

Always moderate the tone of your voice to make sure you are not speaking too loudly or too softly but rather firmly and earnestly so that your counterpart perceives your willingness to collaborate together towards a mutual solution.

Figure 1 shows that an individual comes to a managerial job with a set of values, by this stage in life probably rather firmly set — for example, that the radio station he manages should provide intelligent fare.

Rather firmly, they clap and sing along to karaoke sessions as images of North Korea's grandeur tower blocks of the capital city; great arches and palaces; plunging waterfalls and more mountains are relayed on a large screen.

Nevertheless, all of these results were still thought to be rather firmly excluded because a further experiment, Xenon10 (also based at Gran Sasso), saw nothing when it really ought to have seen something if the other experiments were right.

"And somewhere along the way it got rather firmly rooted in New York that with a co-op, the governing documents would very often allow the co-op to arbitrarily withhold consent to a transfer, while with a condominium, the only kind of restriction that most people believe would stand up would be the right of first refusal".

It still talks in terms of an indefinite truce rather than firmly accepting Israel's existence.

Then, rather more firmly: "Syriza is plainly the only realistic leftwing choice in Greece now.

Will they still do so if he is in the back seat rather than firmly in control of the wheel?

Leicestershire may have their sights set rather more firmly on Twenty20 cricket than four day stuff these days, but they still needed putting away.

Though she and Mr. Balducci align themselves with the visual, not performing arts, their activity seems liminal rather than firmly situated in either world.