Sentence examples for steadfastly asking from inspiring English sources

Indeed, Arpaio's critics have been steadfastly asking the federal government to end all 287 g) agreements.

Meanwhile, her neighbors remained steadfastly loyal, asking her to continue to represent them, but, instead, her district was eliminated and apportioned among other districts.

Despite calls for a formal war declaration, Adams steadfastly refused to ask Congress for one.

I steadfastly refused, and later asked another staff member who said there was no way any adviser would suggest a customer remove a qualification.

Yet the circumstances of these remarkable recordings remained steadfastly vague, despite Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner pressing Dylan during his second major post-accident interview to spill the beans, asking him for "the origin of that collection of songs, of that tape".

The defining question driving "Neva," Mr. Calderon has said, is this: "What's the point of seeing a theatrical work when, because of politics, people are dying every day?" This strikes me as a dumbfounding question for an artist to be asking, particularly in the context of a play capitalizing on the renown of a writer who remained steadfastly apolitical throughout his life.

Yet he is also a Southern gentleman, steadfastly polite, refusing to bite when asked about a city official's observation that, hey, people in jobs sometimes have to move, so why not a displaced animal?

So why not do what Madison and his successors have steadfastly refused to do for more than two hundred years: ask the people in a referendum which form of government they prefer, and then accept their verdict.

When Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker and the only mayoral candidate to have remained steadfastly in support of the marine transfer station, was asked about Mr. Thompson's remarks, she reiterated her support — noting that the goal of this and other new marine waste transfer stations was to reduce the number of trucks rolling through poor and minority communities outside Manhattan.

Earlier in the week when Mrs. Clinton was asked about this highly classified drone program, she steadfastly declined to comment.

But I ask all good and idealistic readers to forget this, and to refuse steadfastly to believe that there are any inhabitants of a Victorian Wessex outside these volumes".