First Up, Taxes Mr. Bush's steadfast drive toward his first goal, a big tax cut, dominated his first 100 days in office.
She has harnessed all of her pre-teen enthusiasm into a quiet and steadfast drive that keeps her drilling without complaining and patiently accepting the sport's lessons as they're pummeled, sometimes aggressively, into her body.
Or, when children spending weekends with a divorced parent rant about having to complete an assignment for school before kicking a soccer ball - insisting that rules in the home of the other parent are different, the weekend parent has to remain steadfast, driven by their sense of right and wrong and NOT by fears of being the unfavored parent.
And somewhere amid the melée lurk the Super Furry Animals - a band driven by a steadfast refusal to do anything by halves.
And if people were passionate about their right to drive, they're even more steadfast in their right to use their phones as they please, when they please, how they please.
It seems counter intuitive to a man who would get in a VW bus and drive to Alaska in the 60's, but your ideals are steadfast.
Without the burden, weight or worry about the outcome of your goals, you allow yourself to remain steadfast and more positive; and in turn, by maintaining that upbeat attitude and drive, there exists a greater likelihood of achieving your goals.
As, one by one, his fellow townsfolk grow tusks, and their soft skin turns scaly, it is not steadfast courage or a firm belief in taking a principled stand that drives poor Bérenger, portrayed by the wonderful Serge Maggiani in the French-language production (with supertitles) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Saturday.
The prayer book at the annual Passover Seder intones, "Next year in Jerusalem" continuing this steadfast longing and sense of entitlement of the place from which they were driven.
Neither batsman has been remotely troubled, with Lyth continuing to drive beautifully and pull powerfully, to reach 182, and Lees, a little more steadfast but equally solid, on 131.
Alexander Stevens, who was the Ross Sea party's chief scientist, found Mackintosh "steadfast and reliable", and believed that the Ross Sea party would have achieved much less, but for Mackintosh's unwearying drive.
