steadfastness

How To Use steadfastness In A Sentence

• His courage and steadfastness never fail him; he looks ever forward, confident in divine protection; the shield he carries is adorned -- a wonderful stroke of poetic genius -- with scenes of the future, and not of the past (viii. 729 foll.): talia per clipeum Volcani, dona parentis, miratur rerumque ignarus imagine gaudet attollens umero famamque et fata nepotum. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• The opinions ranged the gamut, from panic to indifference, many with steadfastness and underlying optimism.
• I was most struck, though, by the buttons Brown was most eager to press: references to steadfastness and so on to emphasise his gravitas compared with Cameron's "fluffiness"; calls to national unity/common purpose designed to imply that if you, young Dave, are against me then you are against us all. Brown Trounces Ming at PMQs
• Suddenly those virtues of steadfastness, commitment and long service as embodied by the Queen appear to be fashionable again.
• His steadfastness and resolve in the face of his critics are deserving of praise.
• From the pews the congregation looked on with mild affection, perhaps half hearing the weighty words about trust and steadfastness.
• And this has made him show increased steadfastness in condemning the Iranian regime. Officials: President Obama reconsidering July 4 invitations to Iran
• The broken glass symbolises the broken faith, broken trust and shattered justice, our axe symbolises the steadfastness of our determination.
• If, on the other hand, we say of a boy, ‘He's not going anywhere,’ we are not praising his steadfastness but damning him as an ambitionless sluggard.
• They are the lessons of steadfastness and trust, honor and humor and, above all, grace under pressure.