Word: steadfastly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...matter how hard she and her steadfast backers try, the exit polling from Indiana and North Carolina are not going to help make the case for her going on. In order for Clinton to persuade superdelegates to back her over Obama, she needed to demonstrate that she was the less divisive candidate who could win over general election swing voters in states like Indiana. Her aggressive campaign, however, has led to a growing gap - now between 15 and 20 points in Indiana and North Carolina - in the perception that she has been more unfair in her attacks than Obama...
...Obama was trying to argue before the Ohio contest that he was more trustworthy than Clinton on fixing the flaws in NAFTA - and more trustworthy in general. Power's "monster" comment cast doubt on his campaign's contention that Clinton has been running the more personally negative campaign. Furthermore, steadfast opposition to the presence of American troops in Iraq is one of the chief points of contrast that has benefited Obama in his fight against Clinton. In recent days, news organizations for the first time have stepped up their scrutiny of Obama's campaign, and the Goolsbee and Power flaps...
...interpretation. In a play most famous for the post-show dialogue it sparks, this doesn’t trouble Wright in the least. “[The playwright, Shanley,] has talked before about how we’re living in an age of certainty and how people have this steadfast position that they hold to, so that they can’t have any dialogue,” Wright says. “I know the war in Iraq was a big impetus for him writing this, and I think that it’s just a very important play...
...Iowa, Bill Clinton shaded his own nuanced record on the war, saying he "opposed Iraq from the beginning"; in New Hampshire, the criticism he got for that didn't stop him from blasting Obama's claim of steadfast opposition to the war as a "fairy tale." He twisted Obama's observation that Ronald Reagan had changed the country to make it appear that the Illinois Senator had praised Reagan's ideas. And Bill churlishly diminished Obama's sweeping and historic primary victory in heavily African-American South Carolina by pointing out that Jesse Jackson had also won the state. Liberal...
...don’t believe in jinxes.Last September, as I watched Red Sox rookie Clay Bucholz spin a no-hitter against Baltimore, the Orioles fan by my side did her valiant best to halt the course of events. While I attempted to ignore the steadfast “0” in the Baltimore hit column, she took every opportunity to point it out. A short time later, Bucholz’s teammates hoisted him in the air to celebrate the no-hitter, and my friend went home—as always—a shamed Orioles...