How To Use Steadfastness In A Sentence
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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
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The opinions ranged the gamut, from panic to indifference, many with steadfastness and underlying optimism.
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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
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Suddenly those virtues of steadfastness, commitment and long service as embodied by the Queen appear to be fashionable again.
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His steadfastness and resolve in the face of his critics are deserving of praise.
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From the pews the congregation looked on with mild affection, perhaps half hearing the weighty words about trust and steadfastness.
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And this has made him show increased steadfastness in condemning the Iranian regime.
Officials: President Obama reconsidering July 4 invitations to Iran
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The broken glass symbolises the broken faith, broken trust and shattered justice, our axe symbolises the steadfastness of our determination.
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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.
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They are the lessons of steadfastness and trust, honor and humor and, above all, grace under pressure.
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The galloglass were renowned for their valor and steadfastness in battle - and an unbending loyalty to their employers.
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Most were Sikhs, Rajputs or Gurkhas, people whom the British classed as ‘martial races’ and they were much admired for their bearing, courage and steadfastness.
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Later, the division superintendent called the flagman to his office to compliment him on the steadfastness with which he stuck to his story.
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He was said chief by reason of the principality in prelation; a stone by reason of his steadfastness in his passion; blaming with his mouth by reason of constancy in his preaching.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4
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They are the lessons of steadfastness and trust, honor and humor and, above all, grace under pressure.
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While tenacity is an admirable quality to some degree; after all, he was re-elected by conveying his "steadfastness" versus Kerry's perceived waffling, it can be a debilitating and cumbersome attribute.
October 2005
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There was no brag or bounce about him, no hideousness of noise or mafficking, no hatred of foreigners or cruelty of uncharity, but a grim steadfastness of determination which meant that, so far as he might, Bates would do or die.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914
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I must tell you of a record of St Bede's, which shows how gladly Ireland in old days, as ever, shared the priceless gift which she of all countries, received with the most passionate entireness and held with the most unswerving steadfastness.
Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
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But rare is the book on evolution theory that tells the story of steadfastness.
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Constantine had witnessed the unusual steadfastness, honesty and duty of the Christians, just as he had seen the horrors of persecution while with Diocletian and Galerius in the East.
Santa Elena, discoverer of the Holy Cross
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The softer side, for example the love and steadfastness of Antigone, is simply uncut hay for the chaff-cutter, the material and not the form of life.
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His true believers, with the steadfastness that comes from monomania, are energized by anger about the war.