Sentence examples for sits firm from inspiring English sources

PARIS — The rabbit sits firm in front of a leafy wall, ears outlined against a vista of a distant chateau.

A dry cake soaks up the sherry and sits firm and content at the bottom of the bowl.

I hadn't read the book for four years, and as I read the part of Rochester with my student (she opted, of course, to read Jane's lines) I realized I had forgotten how hilarious Rochester can be in his exchanges with Jane: "The forehead declares, 'Reason sits firm and holds the reins...Well said, forehead; your declaration shall be respected".

Asked if he was bothered by that, Chow sat firm and silent for a moment.

Li protested the overrule, circling a mark for Engzell to check, but Engzell sat firm, refusing to leave her chair to inspect the mark.

In 1884, long before a housing project was named for her and 71 years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus, Ida B. Wells sat firm when a railroad conductor told her to forfeit her seat because she was African-American.

A third of India's corporate debt sits in firms with interest costs in excess of operating profits, according to Credit Suisse.

The Series B is led by EQT Ventures, the newish firm that sits under the PE firm EQT Partners, based out of Stockholm.

Allow it to sit and firm up at room temperature for at least 10 hours.

Goldman's special situations group, for example, sits in the firm's fixed income division and invests in securities over a year or more.

Regardless of where a firm sits along the elasticity spectrum, reputation management is arguably more important than it has ever been.