staunchly

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Keeping and staying the same
anti-progressive
calcification
calcify
consistency
consistent
continuum
invariant
inveteracy
kept
leave well aloneidiom
left
stability
stabilization
stabilize
stably
stay
unreformed
wallow
wallow in something
wouldn't have it any other wayidiom

Examples of steadfastly

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.
Only later would it be learned that formidable mountains in the back country stood steadfastly in the way.
Let us remain steadfastly attentive to the central mission of resilience research: to use existing scholarship and research toward maximizing the well-being and life chances of vulnerable children and families.
Lkhe dashed forward to get near, but his fury was futile because the security guards steadfastly held him back.
At their most engaging, these accounts of difference steadfastly refuse to reduce identity to one or the other, negating claims to either form of pure determination.
The latter, meanwhile, steadfastly refused all such demands or entreaties on the ground that they were merely tenants not owners of the land whose proprietor was the state.
For well over two years by this time he had steadfastly maintained that the mass of the neutron was about 1.0067 amu - definitely smaller than the mass of the proton.
If, after such consideration, you still remain ignorant of decisive facts, then look to your highest loyalty; look steadfastly at the cause of universal loyalty itself.
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