But business owners in the city's downtown are steadfastly trying to maintain the history of the area and the character of their shops.
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.
The general sentiment of European VCs steadfastly trying to nurture a European born competitor is that they don't want to see the e-scooter rental market be rolled over by the U.S. in the same way that Uber rode in and knocked out many local players.
One is comply with the conservative fold, steadfastly trying to convert one's sexuality through repression and restraint (classic Church history).
"It's a culmination in that we have steadfastly tried to make the case to working people that this election is about their economic future, that there are two very different paths that the two parties want to take them down," Michael Podhorzer, the AFL-CIO's political director, said on a call with reporters Friday.
Men could lead confidently and didn't whine or steadfastly refuse to try.
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.
Sometimes overriding resistance from Washington, Mr. Sharon has used fighter jets, tanks and curfews to try to suppress the violence, and has steadfastly refused to negotiate.
But it eventually fell to a magistrate to try to initiate through judicial procedures what the politicians continued to steadfastly refuse to contemplate.
Nobody quite understood him, and one of the chefs whose nightmare kitchen Ramsay was trying to save steadfastly refused to make dishes from scratch.
