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Take a firm stand   /teɪk ə fərm stænd/   Listen
Take a firm stand

verb
1.
Be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge.  Synonym: insist.






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"Take a firm stand" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the unhappy appearance of the prospective bride would be explained. She had been forestalled in her chance to make an appeal. Mrs. Baron emphatically sustained her husband's purpose, concluding: "My dear sister, in this crisis you will have to take a firm stand with the rest of us. Louise is acting like a perverse child, and no more realizes the necessity and wisdom of our course than ...
— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe

... his character in a still grosser and meaner light; while, if withheld, the unexplained motive might be presented as a partial justification of his course. He had been surprised into damaging admissions; but here he would take a firm stand. ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor



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