Voorbeelden van steadfastly

• While national leaders reluctantly accepted state reform, they steadfastly refused to consider any modification of their own highly centralised political party structures.

• They have maintained a steadfastly scientific approach to their work and have resisted the temptation to make wild claims about their 'new electrotherapy'.

• The majority of self-help manuals are handbooks of a youthful middle age, steadfastly looking forward to the past.

• But they steadfastly avoided emulating the white man in this regard.

• Strangely enough, however, though selfstyled patriots of all stripes imagined schooling as indispensable to the republic, schools themselves remained steadfastly local institutions.

• Although he steadfastly denies "seeing" in the usual way when presented with visual stimuli, he frequently describes some kind of concurrent awareness.

• Our successful agers did not seem to opt for this option - in fact they steadfastly resisted it for the moment.

• This could, eventually, spell disaster for those opera houses that have steadfastly resisted innovation on stage.