Since then, their steadfast work has resulted in 10 similar contracts with other corporations, almost doubling the wages and guaranteeing fair working conditions for thousands of tomato pickers.
The more we are able to participate in meaningful dialogue about potentially provocative and polarizing initiatives, the less likely we will be to feel those wild rumblings beneath our feet that indicate a massive shift is underway -- a feeling that can often result in steadfast resistance to change.
"As a result of our steadfast focus on risk management and prudent lending, and our disciplined approach to capital and liquidity management, we were able to avoid the worst outcomes experienced by others in the industry," Dimon told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in January 2010.
Dr Tom Evans, interim CEO of AERAS said: "Because of the urgency to control the global TB epidemic, and despite these trial results, we remain steadfast in our belief that an improved TB vaccine will be developed and represents the best hope for eliminating the disease".
The reports of his supposed crimes, they say, help to hide the good he is doing for the community and his steadfast struggle against the Taliban which has resulted in nine attempts on his life.
"Steadfast implementation of reforms is beginning to deliver results in terms of current accounts and regaining competitiveness," the commission president, José Manuel Barroso, wrote in a letter to the leaders of the 27 members of the Union.
It is the ability to remain steadfast, knowing that with enough tries you will get your result.
As a result, people's locus of attention becomes more steadfast.
Some fear that Germany's steadfast lobbying for Mr. Koch-Weser could produce a similarly muddled result for the monetary fund.
A fourth motivation for steadfast views is that in certain cases they give intuitively more plausible results than conciliationism.
