Furthermore, Japan's enormous historic baggage and its steadfast refusal to live up to it make it impossible for it to effectively play Foxconn to the American Apple in Asian security.
"If you don't have a secure citizenship status, unless you're living in a steadfast democracy that will at least respect your human rights then you're in danger and you don't have another country to go to for security," Belton said.
Mr. Steinbrenner's steadfast generosity to our cause and compassion for those living with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) will not be forgotten.
But my hunch is that some of Roger's most steadfast friends are people he has never met, people whose living rooms he has graced, for more than 30 years, with his articulate, sometimes combative judgments of coming attractions.
"[Entsch] is the federal MP for the one seat in the country that has the most amount of native title holders living in it, and yet he is the most steadfast opponent of the Mabo decision on native title.
Her spirit is resilient and her determination to live is steadfast.
Márquez-Greene mourns the loss of her daughter, but she also mourns the version of herself that existed before the shooting; a woman with a naive but steadfast belief that she lived in a place where a mass display of gun violence could never happen.
If the couple went through a sticky patch back in 2002, amid rumours that they were living in separate apartments, Bellucci's pregnancy confirmed a union that has held steadfast ever since.
While Leontes is living on the dark side of the moon, he is visited by Hermione's steadfast friend Paulina (the outstanding Noma Dumezweni, who plays with Shakespeare's language as delightedly as she plays with her character).
I would rather have him alive, living an authentic life, true to who he is, than to live a stalwart steadfast lie that backs him in to a suicidal corner.
