steadfastness

Your steadfastness is commendable but I do think you would be more helpful, in the long run, if you could permit yourself to criticize a bit.

Obama Responds to FISA Protest on His Web Site - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

W. deserves credit for a certain steadfastness in the War on Terror, but his administration is suffused with the sort of hubris, sense of entitlement to power, and belief in the ameliorative powers of government action (in both the foreign and domestic realms) that one normally associates with the worst types of statists.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Election Thoughts: 2004

It was, after all, a Southern diarist, the Confederate War Department official R.G.H. Kean, who lamented during that bleak Confederate winter: "I have never actually despaired of the cause .... [but now] steadfastness is yielding to a sense of hopelessness."

A Passive President? 1995

In stability of earth, in steadfastness of rock, I bind to myself to-day God's strength to pilot me;

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919

It translates as "steadfastness" - and is usually understood to mean staying put on your land, living with dignity despite adversity.

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

Lines 2-8 describe the star's steadfastness, which is, above all, one of solitude as hinted by its hanging in "lone splendour", and the poet calls the Star an "Eremite," or hermit.

Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009

It is described as steadfastness, as being steady.

Examining Karma Immediately after 9/11 ��� Session Three: The Laws and Varieties of Karma 2001

But this time they were led by one who had been trained in English steadfastness.

To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903

Each one of us needs the quality called steadfastness -- not the obstinacy which denies us the right to judge fairly every condition about us, not the bigotry which prevents us from a charitable consideration of the views of other people -- but the steady adherence to positive Christian principles which keep us constant in our faith and unwavering in our hold on heavenly virtues.

Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks 1900

Their steadfastness has been the more remarkable because, by their social position, their learning and their wealth, they might be supposed to be indifferent to the ballot-box, as so many thus situated claim to be.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862