stand firm
hold firm

And she holds firm to those rules in her class.

If he holds firm, perhaps his efforts will yet make a difference.

From 1928 to 1932, that particular line holds firm in the present show.

I took a massive step forward, my club held firm in both hands.

But even as the two men were being released, the police department that brought the case against them held firm.

She tried to bat his hand away, but he held firm.

Then I went to my mother, and she held firm, too.

The second wall has only two gates and they are holding firm.

Probably the single biggest reason that the 13 held firm was politics.

For now, the Republicans are holding firm in their support of the governor.

We could in no wise loosen this linen, it held so firm on to the body.

He came for me in a crouch, knife held loose but firm, as if he knew what he was doing.

The city's defenses held firm however, so he decided to starve the city into surrender.

Production of the fibers was steady and the market held generally firm.

Yesterday, the backhand held remarkably firm, just as it has all summer, even though Nadal kept testing it.

The kids are still all right, but unless thirty-four senators hold firm Providence may no longer be able to indulge the second without harming the third.

Mrs. Schlafly said she had "every sense that the President is going to hold absolutely firm."

Myself, I think we should hold firm exactly where we are.

But the shorter Treasury notes held relatively firm.

It would hold firm till some adept dissolved it.