Sentence examples similar to steadfastly apply from inspiring English sources
But she has steadfastly refused to apply it to Mr. Clinton or Mr. Gore when allegations of fund-raising improprieties swirled around them after the 1996 election -- a stance that legal experts have said was based on the technicalities of the independent counsel law.
UNICEF is guided by the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child and is steadfastly committed to the principle that child rights apply to all children, everywhere.
This, after all, is a White House that has steadfastly tried to keep "enemy combatants" beyond the purview of American courts, whose defence secretary has publicly declared that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to the battle against al-Qaeda and whose Justice Department once produced an infamous memorandum explaining how torture was part of the president's war powers.
Would that those who lost control of the senate had applied the same faith in rules as steadfastly to themselves after busting the filibuster.
In this "Big Case," the Court succumbs to the temptation that previous Courts have steadfastly resisted.8 While the majority assures us that it is not applying any " 'heightened' " pleading standard, see ante, at 23, n. 14, I shall now explain why I have a difficult time understanding its opinion any other way.
The Senate has steadfastly defended an unwritten tradition that allows the home-county Senator of a nominee to block his or her appointment without ever having to give any reason, or even to reveal that he is applying the block.
The president steadfastly refused.
His manner is steadfastly optimistic.
Mackay steadfastly refused.
