Sentence examples for rests firmly from inspiring English sources

(The department, its chairman liked to say, "rests firmly on a foundation of Jell-O").

The nation's system of governance rests firmly on the premise of compromise.

The convention, she said, rests firmly on the foundation of the family.

By now, 40 years after his death, he rests firmly in the canon of American music.

Others say the blame rests firmly at home, specifically with Canada's love affair with grease, and particularly the doughnut.

Violence against women is at its peak, and it rests firmly on gender-based discrimination from birth in education, health and freedom.

Against UConn (12-0), the ball and Stanford's chances will rest firmly in Pohlen's hands.

The victory over fascism meant the mantle of global leadership rested firmly on the Atlantic alliance.

European aspirations now rested firmly on the shoulders of Faldo and Ballesteros.

Whatever the original foundations of tortious liability, by the 19th century it had come to rest firmly upon the notion of fault.

And the defendant, Ronald Short, sat through it all in perfect stillness, his eyes clamped shut and his chin resting firmly on his fist.