Sentence examples for steady fixture from inspiring English sources

BOSTON'S Old South Church has been a steady fixture throughout the city's history.

He provides the only steady fixture in a rapidly changing landscape.

But his big band hasn't been a steady fixture in New York, which is one reason that he's better known for his role in the Heath Brothers, who have been such a fixture, righteously so.

He remained that steadying fixture through the civic paroxysms of the Vietnam War and Watergate.

For while Mrs. Bancroft, 52, is about as steady a fixture as one finds on the society circuit — involved in charities galore, and a good deal of fashion promotion — Mr. Bancroft, also 52, shows up in the party pages as often as J. Press alters the hemline on its Bermuda shorts, which is to say almost never.

Jordan, too, played a steady hand in this fixture with what Chris Nash described as a "world class display of bowling" that saw the England man take five for 68 on day one.

Certainly the NFL's aim of becoming the UK's third biggest sport is not overly outlandish but the steady approach – more British fixtures over time, coupled with a first game somewhere like Berlin – may be the more sensible play before a full-blown London franchise gets the go-ahead.

Throughout its journey, the ring was held steady by a 40-ton fixture designed by the heavy haul transportation company Emmert International.

He was dancing on tables, steadying himself on light fixtures near the D.J. booth, as friends were urging him to get down, said Annie Devlin, 21, of Manhattan, who was also at the club.

What causes the fadeout after three years isn't the star, but the imitation -- a steady increase in wattage that burns out the whole fixture.

A constant shear rate was applied (using ARES with cone and plate fixtures) until stress and viscosity had reached steady values.