Sentence examples for swift and firm from inspiring English sources
She puckered up her lips and left me, her walk swift and firm.
He welcomed the "swift and firm" action apparently being taken against those responsible.
Judge Ciavarella had never made a secret about liking his justice swift and firm.
"We're very grateful for Uefa's swift and firm action condemning such cruel and archaic practices," she said.
"We simply are never going to tolerate something like that; we're going to take swift and firm action when we see activities of that nature".
In a swift and firm ruling, a federal magistrate said today that John Walker Lindh, the Californian captured with anti-American forces in Afghanistan, must stay in prison while he awaits trial on charges that he conspired to kill his countrymen.
They went about their job the right way: a discreet presence, no provocation, broad tolerance which is expected in an open, democratic society, and swift, firm intervention as soon as a certain threshold was exceeded.
The business took off, and by 2007 Swift and other day trading firms, like Title Trading and Hold Brothers, were offering services to thousands of day traders — often through accounts registered by wealthy Chinese or by expatriates from the United States and Canada.
Without swift, firm and decisive action to reignite a meaningful peace process and to push for a swift deal, the two-state option may disappear forever, leaving Israelis and Palestinians alike facing a future of endless conflict in a region already racked with instability.
But Swift and her record label held firm.
Although there is relatively little wrong with the rest of the farmyard, the disruptions caused by the furore in the hogs' feeding pound is seriously disruptive, and without swift firm action the whole farm can be harmed by the hogs' panic-attack.
