They ranged from homeowners who had witnessed oil seep into their backyards from the burst pipeline in 2007 to activists with multiple arrests under their belts to members of First Nations that had steadfastly opposed the pipeline's progress through BC.
Then you will be put in solitary confinement, still a widely used form of punishment, which has little to commend it beyond the fact that it so steadfastly avoids the notion of progress.
Without him, we'd never have made the progress we have". REYNOSO KNOWS that progress often comes slowly, but he steadfastly believes that persistence and patience can result in reform.
"Unfortunately, nobody mentioned this to (education secretary) Michael Gove who steadfastly stands in the way of meaningful progress in delivering high quality physical education and school sport across this country".
Since then, there has been consistent progress as academic researchers have been steadfastly working on developing more and more accurate models.
"The Tatmadaw has steadfastly held on to the multiparty system for five years and progress has also been made.
Antrim hurling boss Kevin Ryan continues to remain steadfastly against the new Leinster SHC format despite his team's progress in the competition.
She steadfastly refuses to poeticise Mary, and instead charts, with infinite precision, the degrading progress of her drug dependence.
Played out against a backdrop of wars, revolutions and recessions, of technological progress imbued with an almost sacred aspect, not to mention old gods who steadfastly refuse to die, all of this amasses to an oeuvre that, again like many of the best writers — Stendahl, George Eliot or Pynchon, for example — forms a lens, or prism, through which a whole era lurches into focus.
The president steadfastly refused.
Instead, Bhutan has steadfastly ignored our demands; multiple rounds of talks between Bhutan and Nepal over the status of the Lhotshampa have yielded little progress.
