Since he was ordained as a priest in 1949, the year the Communists won power in China, Bishop Zeng has been one of the most steadfast opponents of the official "patriotic" church, which accepts the supremacy of the Communist Party and rejects the Pope's right to select bishops.
Dr. Adadevoh correctly diagnosed the disease and also put in place the appropriate quarantine measures, remaining steadfast even as Liberian officials put pressure on her to discharge the patient and allow him to attend the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) conference.
Perhaps the greatest concern is what one senior Bush administration official recently termed "steadfast efforts" by the extremist groups to infiltrate Pakistan's nuclear laboratories, the heart of a vast infrastructure that employs tens of thousands of people.
Chicago officials were also steadfast in saying they believed that the court's decision, which left open possibilities for local gun ordinances, would have little immediate effect.
Chester E. Finn Jr., a leading conservative critic on education who served in the Reagan administration, said Mr. Riley "would have done standards-based reform more good if he had advised state officials to be steadfast and resolute and to persevere and not be deterred by the forces of resistance to accountability and standards".
But Trump administration officials have remained steadfast that its policies are necessary to deter unauthorized immigration.
THE NEWS Olympic officials in Beijing remained steadfast in their plan to take the Olympic torch to Tibet and Mount Everest, despite the violence.
"He may be the most steadfast reader" in the jail, one M.C.C. official was quoted as saying.
She was recruited by Democratic officials in Washington because of her steadfast demand in 2000 that every one of the county's disputed butterfly ballots be counted by hand.
But to police officials, the statistics demonstrated the department's steadfast commitment to going after illegal guns, and the drop in gun seizures as a percentage of overall stops indicated the effectiveness of the tactic: criminals, officials believe, are now more likely to leave their guns at home, knowing they may be stopped by the police.
Russian officials at the United Nations and elsewhere have been steadfast in insisting that Mr. Hussein's government allow international weapons inspectors return to Iraq and complete their search for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons before sanctions can be lifted.
