Sentence examples for switched firmly from inspiring English sources
You could remotely instruct all appliances plugged in but not in use to be switched firmly off, so there would be no wasteful leakage of electricity into set top boxes or microwaves on standby, or into idle phone or iPod chargers.
He must be sure to flick the switch firmly with this finger.
Each cell must provide instant access to the handful of these genes needed by its cell type, but also keep the rest firmly switched off to avoid chaos.
There is no musical soundtrack score to the film: we only hear the music the characters can hear: old numbers that trigger memories, and which must either be loyally and sentimentally danced along to – or firmly switched off.
Reach for the clicker and gently but firmly switch to Hallmark.
The leveller switched the momentum of the match firmly in Swansea's favour and, as the encounter moved into the closing stages, Michael Laudrup's men looked the likeliest to grab a dramatic winner.
Keidanren, the business lobby that was once firmly in the LDP camp, has switched sides.
Firmly determined to switch to art that is financially within the reach of large numbers, Ms. Couvelaire turned to new ways of creating abstract compositions at a lower cost.
Germany's chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, reckons that Russia has become more favourable to co-operating with NATO since the alliance rejected British calls for an open commitment to a ground war.Serbia's hawks have certainly held the view that Russia would switch back to a more firmly anti-western position if NATO embarked on a ground war.
No one at the Edinburgh Festival was firmly committing to switch production back to the UK until the tax break is confirmed, but BBC2 did announce plans to make Wolf Hall, an adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker prize winner about the rise of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII and the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.
During 150 resistive switching cycles, the LRS currents firmly hold on about several milliampere, and the HRS currents keep very low.
