Firmly example sentences

Gently but firmly he was escorted by the security staff back home to an anxious and angry mother.Peggy knocked firmly on the door, but there was no answer.A delusion is a false belief that is firmly held on inadequate grounds.I used every way I knew to overcome this fear, but it held me firmly in its grip.Opposed to the privileges the old aristocracy had by birth, they firmly believed in the value of individual effort, labour and enterprise.Attitudes that are still in the formative stage, and are more like opinions, are much more likely to change compared to attitudes that have become firmly established, and have become a part of the individual's values.By the third quarter of the nineteenth century it was firmly entrenched as a dance form not only in these two regions, but in the adjoining areas of present-day Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.Unlike golf and tennis, cricket has refused to remake its tools with industrial or man-made materials: plastic, fibreglass and metal have been firmly rejected.On the contrary he must have had to face more uncertain and difficult times, for when he began his career, there were no firmly established film producing companies or studios.Unlike golf and tennis, cricket has refused to remake its tools with industrial or man-made materials: plastic, fibre glass and metal have been firmly rejected.” “Mummy told us quite clearly they were burn scars,” Nishad said firmly.