What's the difference between steadfastly and unswervingly?
Steadfastly
Definition:
(adv.) In a steadfast manner; firmly.
Example Sentences:
(1) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(2) "Although she was always a steadfast critic of apartheid, she had a much better grasp of the complexities and geostrategic realities of South Africa than many of her contemporaries," he said.
(3) One of those convictions was his steadfast and passionate belief in the importance of the US-Saudi relationship as a force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond.
(4) His remarks came as the Republican leadership in the US Senate remained steadfast in its opposition to filling the supreme court vacancy under Obama’s watch.
(5) In a statement, a spokesperson said that the Obama emphasised that the US “remains steadfast in [its] commitment to the security of Israel .” Netanyahu told Obama that Israel “vehemently opposes” the framework deal .
(6) But the county authorities, along with Montana's state election officials, have steadfastly refused to grant the request, offering a panoply of excuses, many of them contradictory.
(7) The present review is first and foremost a tribute to Monroe Eaton and his colleagues for their trail-blazing discovery of a major cause of the atypical pneumonia syndrome and their steadfast vision of its importance.
(8) By being steadfast in our values we can impel Russia to rethink its ambitions; by being mild we can encourage their cruellest actions.
(9) He argues that the previous EULA was more restrictive, but is steadfast that "ranks" and "kits" are ways to pay for progress and therefore not allowed – whatever they may (or may not) add to the experience.
(10) Why not?” May on Sunday told Fabian Picardo, the chief minister of Gibraltar, that the UK remained “steadfastly committed to our support for Gibraltar, its people and its economy”, according to the details of a telephone conversation released by Downing Street.
(11) I have also never been more encouraged by your dedication and steadfast commitment to our future.
(12) "Secretary Kerry has a proud record of over three decades of steadfast support for Israel's security and wellbeing, including staunch opposition to boycotts," Psaki said in a statement.
(13) "Donor agencies were given highly credible first-hand accounts of serious human rights violations during their field investigation, and they have chosen to steadfastly ignore these accounts," says the report, written by Will Hurd, an NGO worker who served as a translator for a team of DfID and USAid officials on a visit to the region in January 2012.
(14) Confronted with steadfast mission requirements, increasing demands for dental services, and a reduction of professional staff, the Corps has responded to challenge with the implementation of an alternative to the limitations of established and traditional concepts of practice.
(15) The prime minister, Tony Abbott, has steadfastly refused to do so, citing the Coalition’s long-held refusal to talk about operational “on-water” matters.
(16) Though framed by record high temperatures and an increasing number of extreme weather events, the Paris talks are already beset by the same problems that repeatedly dog climate change negotiations: the richest countries steadfastly refuse to meet legal commitments and shoulder their share of responsibility , preferring to uphold the desires of all-powerful corporate lobbies.
(17) But where some traditions were broken, others remain steadfastly in place.
(18) Her commitment went beyond this role and she remained steadfast to social work and the people it serves.
(19) Is steadfastly denying her son so admirable, when other parents remortgage and raid pensions to help their children on their way?
(20) The mayor has steadfastly refused to step down since reports emerged of a video of him smoking crack.
Unswervingly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) One man who will never criticise its actions is the retired Mandela who, just seven years younger than the ANC, remains an unswervingly loyal party man – leaving it to others to speculate whether it has failed his legacy.
(2) In the foreword, iconic black activist Angela Davis describes Shakur as a "compassionate human being with an unswerving commitment to justice".
(3) He was open and liked making jokes.” Unswervingly devoted, Mulungula adds: “President Mobutu was a positive dictator, not a negative one.
(4) In past versions, the player had to cue up activities; characters couldn’t do two things at once, so actions were rigid and unswerveable.
(5) Indeed, Reid's communism reinforced his popular image as a man of unswerving principle, rather than just another politician or trade union leader.
(6) Ennis-Hill, committed to encouraging children to take part in sport, and unswervingly loyal to her home town – even when the council closed the Don Valley stadium where she trained – as well as to United, has brought her own hero status to bear on the club to recognise the enormity of the idea of Evans’s rehabilitation by the world of football.
(7) Corbyn’s unswerving track record on a portfolio of familiar leftwing causes has put him in some very questionable company – as his detractors never tire of reminding us – militant Islamists among them.
(8) Flint blamed Brown for briefing the Times, which this week reported she had been spotted in parliament's Pugin Room plotting against him, and she insisted she had been unswervingly loyal.
(9) The family movement in schizophrenia would do well to follow the example of the parents of the developmentally disabled in their unswerving devotion to their cause, which appears to be the key to their success in achieving greatly increased services and funding.
(10) Second – and this is at the heart of Putting Quality First – we have to rededicate ourselves unswervingly to that central mission.
(11) This week the book was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize, given annually to a British writer who, as Harold Pinter put it in his Nobel speech, casts an "unflinching, unswerving" gaze upon the world (this year, Carol Ann Duffy), and shared with an international writer who has been persecuted for speaking out about their beliefs.
(12) The true draw – cited as an inspiration by many of those assembled – was the leader of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn , whose unswerving unilateralist stance has electrified the nuclear deterrent debate in a manner few could have foreseen.
(13) A combination of high intelligence and unswervable determination were Lee’s characteristics, and he transferred them, at least superficially, to modern Singapore.
(14) The first was that he owed both Thatcher and the Tory party unswerving loyalty in the difficult circumstances created by the collapse of the Heath government.
(15) The original detoxer of the brand, with his unswervingly middle-of-the-road instincts, may have been the one to tell Britons that they'd never had it so good , but his MPs didn't love him for it any more than they now love David Cameron.
(16) Rwanda has been both criticised for trampling on human rights and praised for its unswerving focus on development and getting things done.
(17) His many outstanding contributions to the fields of immunology, public health, toxinology and herpetology required not only a very high level of observational, deductive and practical ability but also an unswerving vision and sense of duty; this was allied to great administrative skill and exceptional energy.
(18) It requires a vision, an unswerving commitment, and a leap of faith that collaboration will dramatically improve patient care and provider satisfaction.
(19) In some ways he was the archetypal self-made boy from the north, in the same mould as Richard Hoggart , with an unswerving loyalty to high culture.
(20) He was an unswervingly loyal party man and used to joke that after death he would join the nearest ANC branch in heaven.