Sentence examples for retained firmly from inspiring English sources
He understood the biblical texts literally and inferred from them that the Earth was flat, a belief he retained firmly to his dying day.
Then the coupons with biofilms were removed from petri dish and washed three times with 0.85% NaCl solution to remove all planktonic cells and only retained the firmly attached cells for DC and CHX treatments.
Mr Yeltsin must retain and firmly back genuine reformers at the top of his government, lending them his decree-laden weight at critical moments.
So Locke has concluded that bodies can operate on one another through some means other than impulse, but he retains his firmly held belief that any such operation is not intelligible to us.
After washing by diluted nitric acid, the dispersants have been largely eliminated while the carbon nanotubes have been firmly retained on the surface of the film.
A solution of 50 mM imidazole in 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer at pH 6.0 was used to extract the remaining amount of CREMP-2Rep from the column leaving the TEV protease firmly retained.
The ethos of DOS was firmly retained since compounds with >80 scaffolds were prepared using a small number of optimised procedures.
It is also a bit odd for Ingham to say that press support for Labour in the 2001 general election was retained "a little less firmly" than in 1997, since several newspapers, such as the Times and the Sunday Times, which had opposed Labour in 1997, advocated voting for the party four years later.
Notably, and unlike rival virtual assistant technologies such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri, Alphabet is firmly retaining the Google brand name here at the consumer-facing end of the AI pipe — requiring those who buy into its smart home and AI assistant to give literal voice to the Google brand, day after day, hour after hour.
