Sentence examples for some firmness from inspiring English sources

Conservatism is a respectable outlook, and its adherents usually have to have some firmness of character to stick by what is so unpopular in universities.

Add the potatoes, saffron and stock, season and simmer for about 10 minutes, until the potatoes are just cooked, still retaining some firmness.

Perhaps, though, the shadow business secretary is in his bad books, having recently slapped down with some firmness in a Sunday newspaper Corbyn's plan to ban companies from paying dividends if they do not also pay the living wage.

You want to cook shrimp just long enough to give them some firmness and color; you don't want to achieve the Superball consistency that marked the shrimp cocktails of my youth.

In the first movement of the Dvorak, having established her identity with some firmness, Ms. Fried entered the recapitulation with a melting, tremendously moving piano, drawing the other instruments after her: one of many highlights that showed the potential of this developing relationship.

"If there's some firmness that comes out, and the green speeds get a little bit quicker and get a little bit firmer, I think we will see some of the young players make some mistakes that will cost them the tournament and the experienced players who position the ball properly and vary their risk/reward shot-making, I think they will have an easier time staying on top of the leader board".

Likewise, the brake pedal would benefit from some more firmness.

Some pillows were described with fill power, some with degree of firmness, some with amount of fill.

But every American President from Truman through Carter believed, or acted as if he believed, that through some combination of firmness and restraint, of patient negotiation and occasional sharp confrontation, time could be bought that would allow the Soviet Union to evolve in such a way as eventually to make the Manichaean East-West struggle obsolete.

This will give some weight and firmness to your invitation.

Presuming the buyer has done some comparative shopping, the firmness of the seats should be compared to those in the other cars tested.