Sentences with firm
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F f - The firm's employees were expecting large bonuses.
- Fruit should be firm and in excellent condition.
- A MELBOURNE law firm has hired Australia's first sharia consultant.
- Defence Department silent over investigation into top official after contracts worth millions awarded to law firms outside competitive.
- If you have to climb up, use a firm platform or a sturdy ladder.
- The quick handshake was firm and cool.
- The firm has grown to 38 advisers in Melbourne and five in Sydney.
- Defence Department probe looks at how an Australian law firm was awarded millions of dollars worth of contracts in short succession without.
- She had to be firm with him. 'I don't want to see you again.' [+ with]
- He made a firm decision to leave Fort Multry by boat.
- Four partners and one former partner of a country law firm appeared before the Legal Profession Tribunal yesterday charged with grossly.
- Firm1, in referring to material consistency, suggests a compactness that does not yield easily to, or is very resilient under, pressure [firm flesh]; hard is applied to that which is so firm that it is not easily penetrated, cut, or crushed [hard as rock]; solid suggests a dense consistency throughout a mass or substance that is firm or hard and often connotes heaviness or substantiality [solid brick]; stiff implies resistance to bending or stretching [a stiff collar]
- This man may have killed others but unfortunately we have no firm evidence.
- Although the Yakutians are a minority, they have firm control of the territory.
- The couple met about two years ago and soon became firm friends.
- Cotton prices remain firm and demand is strong.
- Firm more soil over the roots and water thoroughly. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
- He stood firm over his obligation to pay
- A firm friendship
- A firm faith
- A firm command
- A firm contract, a firm order
- Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. [ …] Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
- It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands.
- A firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent
- firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood; firm land (i. e. not soft and marshy)
- firm ground; firm texture.
- A firm voice.
- A firm belief.
- firm friends.
- A firm expression.
- The stock market was firm today.
- To firm up one's hold on something.
- To firm up prices.
- Butter firms by churning.
- Stock prices firmed again today.
- He stood firm.
- The firm of Smith & Jones.