stand firm
hold firm

She could certainly stand firm with the best of them, however.

He was right of course, but she tried to stand firm.

But local and state officials, with the law on their side, stand firm against him.

Every man's hand has been against us, and yet we have stood firm.

This was a woman who wanted to stand firm, on her own.

Which, he decided, made it all the more important to stand firm.

He should have made up his mind and stood firm.

In a little while, if a man of them still stood firm, he was one with nothing to lose.

But I stood firm there and at last she gave way.

I would just like to tell the Council to stand firm.

Minas Tirith is known to have stood firm well into the Fourth Age.

Joshua Martinez stood coldly firm, the police issue pistol aimed at his heart.

The bottle stood firm however, held in place by a magnetic rim round the bottom.

You must not let the cookies stand too long or they will harden or become too firm to be molded.

"And throughout, they stood very firm against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait."

These are key areas for the European Parliament, and it is precisely in these areas that we must stand especially firm.

We need to stand very firm on this.

So far the Commission has stood very firm in this dispute.

Fourteen people died, but the building stood so firm that tenants returned two days later.

Mrs. Bendix would discover that perhaps her own goodness wasn't standing quite so firm under the strain as she had imagined.