You provided the older generation with a model of steadfast devotion, a legacy many of us hope to leave.
There's certainly a kind of steadfast devotion at work there, but I think it's a devotion to an antiquated sense of duty more than anything else.
The concrete expression of ethical requirements in legal precepts takes place with both ends in view, so that the process of beginning the holy community and the process of forming the ḥasid ("pious"), the person of steadfast devotion to God, are concomitant.
Ms. Kennedy recognized him for 40 years of "steadfast devotion to the dream of an integrated society".
It's the same kind of steadfast devotion that Apple fans show when the company makes its own products incompatible with one another without buying extra cables.
For "After You Fall," a ballad of steadfast devotion, Jam and Lewis go more intimate, clearing away everything but Jackson's voice and a tolling piano figure.
A favorite of American servicemen, Ms. Stafford earned the nickname G.I. Jo for her recordings in which her pure, nearly vibrato-less voice, with perfect intonation, conveyed steadfast devotion and reassurance with delicate understatement.
That award states that as a "family physician and psychiatrist, you devoted your professional life to providing care for the seriously ill and under served, with special emphasis on improving services for minority populations, and are beloved by patients, families, trainees and colleagues for your steadfast devotion to disadvantaged persons with mental disorders".
Among the many objections to Mr. Mubarak was his steadfast devotion to Egypt's alliance with Israel and the United States even at the price of suppressing popular resentment of Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians.
Above all, Troy shares his life with his wise, loving, and tireless wife of eighteen years, Rose Daviss), whose steadfast devotion to him is tested when he has an affair — and a child — with another woman.
For all the grim doings that he depicts, for all the ugliness and violence underlying the calm surfaces of country life, Dumont binds the diverse moods and impulses — the bumptious comedy and the steadfast devotion, the free-spirited exuberance and the burning hatred — with a serene and vigorous exaltation in seeing and in being.
