His death brought eulogies praising his "steadfastness", though more from the "street" than from governments.
"The next day in the hotel room, I looked at Alastair and said 'what do we do now?' He just said, 'We try again.' " It is not entirely clear where that steadfastness comes from.
Although Williams has always worked hard and earned excellent grades, her steadfastness comes from a graduate training experience that has seen its share of ups and downs.
The PA formally denied Israeli reports this week that the chairman was contemplating ending his effective house-arrest in Ramallah by resigning or voluntarily going back into exile in Tunisia.Mr Arafat has pledged "martyrdom in my steadfastness for Jerusalem", while desperately seeking support from where he can get it.
Their peace envoy, Anthony Zinni, seems to be staying put in Washington, despite vigorous Palestinian pleas that he return to the region.Mr Arafat has pledged "martyrdom in my steadfastness for Jerusalem", while desperately seeking support from where he can get it.
According to the World Bank (2014), Malaysia's opened economy with a per capita US$8,770 shows its steadfastness to move from high upper-middle income into a high-income economy.
It is UConn's relentlessness that Stanford must match on Thursday, Pohlen said, the steadfastness to play fiercely from beginning to end, to come out punching in the second half instead of waiting to counterpunch.
Among the letters is one written to McNamara from Jacqueline Kennedy thanking him for his steadfastness during the crisis.
"Steadfastness must be translated from a slogan to acts and facts on the ground," he told a crowd late last month in a village called Izbet al-Tabib near the city of Qalqilya, an area where Israel's separation barrier makes access to land extremely difficult for farmers.
Both have suffered from the Israeli occupation for over sixty years and both have showed steadfastness in the face of oppression.
I wrote with the steadfastness of grief.
