Sentence examples for steadfastly kept from inspiring English sources

Many banks, particularly European ones, have steadfastly kept up their dividend payments throughout the crisis, despite pleas from regulators to cut dividends and concentrate on rebuilding capital levels.

A generation ago, it was the Black Sparrow Press which steadfastly kept his titles in print; in the middle of the last decade, Carroll & Graf put out new editions of several of his books.

Notre Dame has steadfastly kept itself above such tawdry muck, but each slip-up chips away at its carefully crafted image as a place where high-level football and the moral high ground aren't mutually exclusive.

I read Mary Mapes Dodge's "Hans Brinker," or "The Silver Skates" (1865), which popularized the tale of the civic-minded Dutch boy who steadfastly kept his finger in the dike, and which, unforgettably, offered a footnote acknowledging the historian Thomas Macaulay.

I steadfastly kept up with the photo books and there literally wasn't anything they did that we can't remember by going back through the numerous books I've made.

Suppose this government also steadfastly keeps out of the business of worrying about how happy its citizens are.

Suppose the government in some country steadfastly keeps out of the business of tracking the levels of virtue in its citizens.

Yet Bergen County -- affluent, densely populated and a stone's throw from New York and home to just about every major retailer in the Northeast -- has steadfastly chosen to keep the doors shut on Sunday.

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.

Despite previous calls from prominent Democrats and Monroe County's Republican Supervisor of Elections Harry Sawyer, Republican Governor Rick Scott has steadfastly refused to keep polls open beyond an 8-day early voting period that ended Saturday at 7 p.m. -- or make that Sunday 1 a.m., when the last voter in line in Miami-Dade was finally able to cast a ballot.

He kept his hands steadfastly at his sides.