Word: steadfastly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international concern and on whether, at last, Cambodian political leaders can cooperate with goodwill to address the underlying problems of their country. Yasushi Akashi, the personable Japanese who heads UNTAC, points out that UNTAC "cannot force Cambodians to be free." The international community and UNTAC need to be steadfast if Cambodians are finally to have the chance...
...such a sophisticated attack. While other teams in the league are introducing zone blocking and timed pitches, Harvard is steadfast in its complexity and sophistication. You've got to confuse...
...residents are still steadfast in their demands for a quieter, safer Harvard Square. And their campaign to tighten both the management of the bars and liquor licensing laws has not only become a crusade against noise pollution and an occasional bout of violence, but a fight to clean up their neighborhood...
...past four weeks, possibly in response to an attempted coup. For now, though he is defeated militarily and surrounded on nearly all sides by enemies, Saddam is playing a skillful game. "It's quite a brilliant strategy," says Leonard S. Spector, a Carnegie Endowment proliferation expert. Saddam is "stubborn, steadfast, holding as much stuff back as possible and giving us enough to defuse a possible attack." Such deft maneuvering means Bush has a far larger problem on his hands than anyone imagined after Iraq's defeat on Feb. 27. Until the nuclear menace is removed, Bush's yearlong nightmare will...
...Sergent argued that Americans would not go to war in the Persian Gulf because they cannot face reality, only simulated versions of it. Now, after the battle, a writer named Jean d'Ormesson allows that Bush, an apparent "simpleton . . . has revealed himself, to almost universal surprise, to be a steadfast head of state . . . He has restored America to the first rank of nations...