What is "adamantly"

Usage examples of "adamantly".

He was adamantly opposed to the notion espoused by some that in the ideal republican government public officials should serve without pay--an idea that had been supported by both Franklin and Washington, two of the wealthiest men in the nation.

Even Benjamin Franklin, who adamantly opposed slavery, had once owned two black house servants and had personally traded in slaves, buying and selling from his Market Street print shop.

Strongly opposed to the existing policy of short-term enlistments, Adams declared himself adamantly in favor of a regular army.

But Adams adamantly opposed hereditary monarchy and hereditary aristocracy in America, as well as all hereditary titles, honors, or distinctions of any kind--it was why he, like Jefferson and Franklin, strongly opposed the Society of the Cincinnati, the association restricted to Continental Army officers, which had a hereditary clause in its rules whereby membership was passed on to eldest sons.

The Warrens were among those who had adamantly opposed the Constitution, convinced it would only encourage speculation and vice.

To the Federalists, the bill was a flagrant attempt to diminish the power of the President to the benefit of the Senate, and they adamantly objected, arguing that the removal of ranking officials in the executive branch must be at the sole discretion of the President.

New Englanders also favored New York, it being much the easiest location for them to reach, though Philadelphia, adamantly espoused by the Pennsylvanians, was considered an acceptable alternative.

Pickering, Wolcott, and McHenry, like Hamilton, adamantly opposed the mission.

Warrens were among those who had adamantly opposed the Constitution, convinced it would only encourage speculation and vice.

Alinor had agreed to let him go, but adamantly refused to allow their son Thork to accompany his father.

Webster, an admitted pedophile, had adamantly denied ever having seen either of the boys, and all throughout the trial, had sworn his innocence, had sworn that someone else was responsible for their disappearance.

Even though the embryos from which these cells are derived are developed outside the womb and routinely discarded, antiabortion activists adamantly oppose using them for research no matter how many people stand to benefit.

The stories, similarly, are mannered, stylized, adamantly nonrealistic, with a strong sense of game-playing, fakery and sleight-of-hand.

Then, without preamble or transition, he could become a bearded Buddha, a paradox of a doctor, chainsmoking the cigarettes his peers adamantly condemned.

After being released from the hospital, despite receiving repeated warnings from the doctors about how serious the aftereffects of convulsions could be, Anna adamantly refused to attend followup appointments.