Always ready to defend passionately his own interpretation of his subject's history, John was the epitome of the independent researcher, working steadfastly for decades without any institutional support.
Expanding and improving treatment will test our ability to set long-term goals and work steadfastly toward achieving them - without being diverted by seductive promises of a simple solution.
He was a man without illusions, holding steadfastly to a confidence in what he could not see.
He remains steadfastly unable to do a straight performance, without veering into meme territory.
He also suggested the Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 could be extended today without debate, something Republicans have steadfastly refused to do for fear of leaving all the leverage over the remaining tax cuts in Democrats' hands.
DeMint's congressional and ideological predecessors believed in the right to secession and disunion -- of course without constitutional authorization, as Abraham Lincoln steadfastly maintained.
Without overtly editorializing, the film quietly and steadfastly champions state-funded public education available to all.
When Wilson suffered a stroke that partially paralyzed him in 1919, Marshall steadfastly refused to assume the powers of the presidency without written requests from first lady Edith Wilson and the president's doctor and a congressional resolution, fearing that he would be accused of "longing for [Wilson's] place".
However, the people of India for the most part steadfastly went along with their top leader's ambitious plan without any major protests, disruptions, or violence.
The father of the 5- and 7-year-old boys painted himself as a tortured man, ridiculed without reason in the disappearance of his wife, steadfastly insisting he was innocent until the end.
