When, in September 2016, I announced to the parliament of Catalonia that the means of resolving the Catalan issue was "a referendum or a referendum", I was committing myself to two premises that we have observed unfailingly: first, that Catalonia's fate must be decided by its own citizens through a referendum, and second, that this could only be resolved by peaceful, democratic measures.
They were unfailingly an objective third party, a sounding board, a valuable source of reasonable counsel.
During my too-brief time with the car, first-to-second and second-to-third gear changes were unfailingly herky-jerky, despite expert counsel from Simon Dickinson, chief instructor for Aston's Performance Driving Course.
When I met Jjuuko, a nervous, intense man who is unfailingly formal, he shared his first impressions of Mugisha.
Indeed, the five concerts I saw during the festival's first weekend were unfailingly well attended, preconcert lectures included.
In the first scene, the unfailingly polite Dunn begins a conversation with a woman sitting next to him on a train, and the camera glides between the two of them, framing each person between the train's seats for a widescreen emphasis of their anxiety.
At the approach of an American journalist, a group of ninth graders from Tokyo was unfailingly polite, and even excited to be answering questions about their trip here.
McCoy is unfailingly polite but he has no idea, at first, how to help.
She's unfailingly gracious — and tends to speak in the second person, preferring "you" over "I" — but there's a ferocious undercurrent there too, as might be expected.
Long gone are the days where one was given a three quarter length polyester pleated skirt and cardi combo for one's fiftieth birthday and expected to sport them unfailingly every day until we shuffle off this mortal coil.
"Death stands at attention," wrote Winston Churchill in 1924: in the next war mankind would possess, for the first time, "the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own destruction".
