The hoodies, having hitherto been offered a hug by the Conservatives are now being given a firm ticking off.
Tour diaries, coaching manuals and ghastly ghost-written memoirs deserved to be given a firm hand-off come present-buying time.
Serbia and Kosovo have struck a deal on the status of the Serb minority in the breakaway territory, and Serbia has been given a firm commitment that membership talks will start by next January.
But its hopes rose only in 1999, when it was officially recognised as a candidate country, and were further boosted in 2002, when it was told that if it met certain conditions by December 2004 it would be given a firm date for talks to begin.
Moreover, unlike Scott, it seems to be the government, not the inquiry, that will determine the date of publication, although I doubt whether the final report would be delivered to the government until the inquiry is given a firm publication date.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, October 8, 1932 P. 9 Last spring, Mr. Ralph Fulitzer made a rhymed promise in THE NEW YORKER that the lady in the fountain at the Plaza would be given a firm foundation, to take the place of the crumbling ruins she now stands among.
Lorenz [2] was one of the first to describe this phenomenon in 1984, and his results were given a firm numerical underpinning by Sigeti [3].
