Dithering in Iraq--one day exhibiting firmness, the next Jimmy Carter-like indecisiveness--has eroded our credibility.
But it is decidedly and firmly hip-hop-if there is any firmness left in the genre.
Will it pursue its own kind with the firmness it has shown Mr Botha?
The trade-off between flexibility and firmness has been a long-running subject of management discussion.
For the time being, however, the council has held firm, and that firmness has paid off.
"Israel knows how to face and continue this battle with firmness and it will triumph, " it added.
These girls show legs of a length and slimness and firmness and brownness never associated with French womanhood.
On Kosovo his government has shown a firmness of purpose and a closely co-ordinated response few had expected.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
And in many of the afore-mentioned controversies, Mr. Stern acted with firmness and purpose in protecting the NBA brand.
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Mr Putin has given the country much greater stability and firmness in government.
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The Bush White House should make clear that, while we support economic liberalization inside China, we will exercise firmness on the diplomatic and military fronts.
The Economist particularly likes him for his robust commitment to free trade, and his firmness in the face of American losses in Iraq.
The steering wheel never wiggled and the bumps were mitigated as good as any smallish car due to the firmness of the new chassis.
The company has a proprietary ProRipeVIP avocado ripening program, which uses an acoustic firmness sensor to measure the firmness of fruit and deliver evenly-ripened avocados.
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How nice it would be if a change of team at the White House could be counted upon to bring firmness to American foreign policy.
"To all, I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me, " he said.
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If I had to choose just one: The vibrant 2008 Hershey Vineyard, with its elegant Howell Mountain tannic firmness supporting an astonishingly layered, flavor-saturated wine.
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Up to a point, the firmness of South-East Asia's currencies is helpful: it holds inflation down at a time when the subsidy cuts are causing popular unrest.
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The episode shows that Mr Putin's firmness of touch, and the economic advice he receives, are not quite so splendid as the ecstatic stockbrokers of Moscow believe.
President Obama will have to balance the firmness and resolution the country expects with his clear desire not to be pushed into snap solutions ahead of clear answers.
Certainly the Salary.com people appreciated the firmness of the process.
Mr Talbott, often sneered at in Washington for his supposed Russophilia, has insisted with particular firmness that all but a handful of Serb troops should withdraw from the province.
"It'll be considerably tougher than a weekly USPGA Tour event just because of the firmness of the greens, the narrowness of the fairways and the length of rough, " he said.
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This scorn for human life is something we must fight with ever greater firmness and with ever greater solidarity between the great nations of the world against those who commit them.
Although the army has made strong statements, warning it will use "firmness and force" to restore order and enforce a night-time curfew, it has seemed unwilling to carry out its threats.
And regarding Iran, we, again, noted that we share views and that we could start negotiations, but that being said, with the required firmness that Iran doesn't get the nuclear military capability.
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Most of the rest of the world, led by the Americans and the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council, including China and Russia, disagree with differing levels of firmness.
He said that he had heard the call by supporters of Marine Le Pen for "the nation, borders, authenticity, authority, firmness", and that he shared centrist Francois Bayrou's concern to reduce the deficit.
Furthermore, it reveals the heart of our political class, who insisted on these changes with absolute unbendable firmness, while acknowledging that these tax hikes would bring in statistically negligible quantities of new revenues.
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