The Fed had full access to Lehman's books for months before it failed, yet steadfastly stood by while the firm descended into bankruptcy.
Once again, David Brooks steadfastly approves of a demonstrably failed foreign policy ("Crisis of Confidence," column, May 8).
Yet the Bank is steadfastly sticking to the old treatment that has failed for four years.
AT&T has steadfastly pooh-poohed this claim, but it has clearly failed to convince regulators of the merits of its case.
Reporters in Haiti found signs of poor sanitation at the camp, but the United Nations mission has steadfastly denied that the troops are to blame, and has said repeated tests have failed to link the cholera to them.
Until recently, the Swiss government had steadfastly insisted on Swiss sovereignty and refused to provide assistance to other governments in cases of tax evasion — that is, cases in which a taxpayer failed to declare income, either intentionally or unintentionally.
Even Liverpool's managing director, Ian Ayre, came out with a statement, though his was used to point out that the club — which has steadfastly defended Suárez at every turn of the Evra affair — had been misled by him when he promised a handshake and then failed to offer one.
A few days into the new year, as the Republican leadership was about to concede that its trainwreck strategy had failed... Representative Frank Riggs, a freshman Republican from California, stood up in a meeting with the leadership and said, "I am vehemently and steadfastly opposed to this defeatist strategy, which is going to blur the difference between the parties".
According to the NRC report, however, Duke has steadfastly argued that this is not a realistic scenario, given that a dam would almost certainly fail more slowly, providing more time for operators to respond.
Ann Beattie, born in 1947, is among the most gifted and prolific fiction writers of her generation, but her books are nowhere to be found on this list; not, I would venture, because she fails to live up to the survey's implicit criterion of importance, but because she steadfastly refuses to try.
