The doctor's warning stiffened my resolve to stop drinking.
医師の警告で禁酒の決意が固くなった。
The bureaucrats maintain solid ties with the gigantic corporations.
官僚達は大企業との強固な関係を維持している。
Your argument is not any more convincing than that of my stubborn father.
君の主張は、ぼくの頑固親父のと同じく納得できない。
He persists in his confidence.
彼は自分の確信に固執する。
I'm firmly opposed to corporal punishment.
私は体罰には断固反対です。
God, please give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
神よ、私に貞潔さと堅固さをおあたえください。ですが、いますぐにではなく。
The older you grow, the more you tend to adhere to fixed ideas.
年をとるほど、ますます固定観念にとらわれるものです。
I have amongst my relatives, a single one who sincerely lives righteously, has strict principles and pursues an ideal, but all my other relatives speak ill and make fun of him.
While welcoming the firming up of the present government policy to abandon the proposal of the reform bill to the Diet, at the same time some are worried that Prime Minister Koizumi won't clearly state the bill's withdrawal.
In the past it was perfectly normal to get the back of a teacher's hand or fist as punishment.
昔は、悪いことをすると、学校の先生から平手をくらったり拳固をもらうことが当たり前だった。
Jim persists in his opinion.
ジムは自分の意見に固執している。
And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.
They are binding the gravel with cement to repair the road.
道路修理のために彼らはじゃりをセメントで固めている。
He still sticks to his opinion.
彼はまだ自分の意思に固執している。
If it becomes stubborn indeed it stands alone.
頑固になればなるほど孤立するよ。
He has a firm belief.
彼は確固たる信念を持っている。
Solid water is called ice.
水の固まったものを氷と呼ぶ。
I have a firm belief in his innocence.
わたしは彼の無実を固く信じている。
Tom likes his spaghetti noodles a little on the hard side.
トムは少し固めのスパゲッティが好きだ。
This lid is too tight for me to open.
このふたは固くて取れない。
Akagi sprained an ankle during practice so before the game he taped it up until it was stiff as a board.
赤木キャプテンは練習中に足を捻挫したので、試合前にテーピングでガチガチに固めた。
They still clung to this doctrine.
彼らはなおもこの理論を固守した。
I tried this and that, blending yellow with white powders and obtaining brown, mixing crystals with powders and getting dust, combining liquids with solids and making mud.