"The age of sumud (stubborn steadfastness) has passed," says a local businessman.
It's easier said than done. It requires not only our perseverance and steadfastness, but also our perseverance and never giving up.
The tree wants to be calm and the wind is not constant. True freedom is manifested in the following three aspects: the steadfastness of the roots, the strength of the trunk and the waving of branches.
Unity of the flexibility of steadfastness and tactics of adhering to principles.
This option might win Israel some plaudits internationally, but it risks allowing Hamas to claim that its resistance and steadfastness has triumphed.
But he was attacked with increasing boldness and steadfastness.
You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.
For that steadfastness and courage, he'll always be our hero.
The "1948 Palestinians", as those in Israel now often call themselves, went from being reviled as quislings to being hailed for their sumud, or steadfastness in refusing to leave their native land.
In his steadfastness to withstand the torment the Titan was supported by the knowledge that in the thirteenth generation there should arrive a hero, - sprung from Jove himself, - to release him.
Because of Guo Moruo's steadfastness, the Kuomintang's die-hards have tightened their surveillance on him. They are unwilling to let him go if they have the chance to defame him.
I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.
The only way to keep our freedom is to have the steadfastness to reject those tempting offers.
