David took a firm hand with it.

Yet you feel the orchestra is near at hand, and the individual instruments have the same firm presence associated with listening from a good seat in an acoustically perfect hall.

It was evident that a captain should remain at his desk, directing with a firm hand and keeping a firm seat.

About 500 employes of the firm will be on hand to witness bestowal of the honor upon Mr. Sorrentino.

I John Audubon, having this day mutual consent with Ferdinand Rozier, dissolved and forever closed the partnership and firm of Audubon and Rozier, and having Received from said Ferdinand Rozier payment and notes to the full amount of my part of the goods and debts of the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, I the said John Audubon one of the firm aforesaid do hereby release and forever quit claim to all and any interest which I have or may have in the stock on hand and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier assign, transfer and set over to said Ferdinand Rozier, all my rights, titles, claims and interest in the goods, merchandise and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, and do hereby authorize and empower him for my part, to collect the same in any manner what ever either privately or by suit or suits in law or equity hereby declaring him sole and absolute proprietor and rightful owner of all goods, merchandise and debts of this firm aforesaid, as completely as they were the goods and property of the late firm Audubon and Rozier.

) On the other hand if VC > R then the firm is not even covering its production costs and it should immediately shut down.

At the end of the 17th century, after the defeat of Pallavicini ( 1588 ) and Landi ( 1682 ) the Farnese duke could finally hold with firm hand all Parmense territories.

The hilt, either from organic materials or bronze ( the latter often highly decorated with spiral patterns, for example ), at first simply allowed a firm grip and prevented the hand from slipping onto the blade when executing a thrust or the sword slipping out of the hand in a cut.

David in turn would hand over to his brother Sir Robert control of the firm.

But when he brought his left hand against his right, and with it took a firm and tight hold of his fist :-" Knowledge "-he said, was of that character ; and that was what none but a wise person possessed.

A miner and rugby player, Ifor " ruled the household with the proverbial firm hand ".

Despite his firm abolitionist stance, throughout his life he continued to express fears of uprising and rule by pardos ( mixed-race people ) and claimed that the governance of heterogeneous societies like Venezuela " will require an infinitely firm hand.

When the warden stands firm, Butch shoots the warden's right hand man in cold blood, then tosses the dying man out for all to see.

To that end, Ben-Gurion used a firm hand during the Altalena Affair, a ship carrying arms purchased by the Irgun.

As the protector of life, one of the duties of Vishnu is to appear on the earth whenever a firm hand is required to set things right.

When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.

My answer is in the negative because I believe that total capital demands during the Sixties will continue to press against available supplies, and interest rates will generally tend to be firm at high levels.

A good negociant or shipper will not only be the man or the firm which has cornered the wines from the best vineyards, or the best parts of them ; ;

As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".

The court will also examine the ability of the firm to prosecute the claim for the plaintiffs, and their resources for dealing with class actions.

Thus Jesus takes a firm stand on the permanence of marriage in the original will of God.

If the roots are not firm and healthy, the tree will not survive-but the roots only form the foundation of the tree.

The Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel and the engineering firm of Buro Happold, will occupy and will be covered by a roof shaped like a flying saucer.

If the MRP is greater than a firm's Marginal Cost, then the firm will employ the worker since doing so will increase profit.

A firm making profits in the short run will nonetheless only break even in the long run because demand will decrease and average total cost will increase.

This means in the long run, a monopolistically competitive firm will make zero economic profit.

For example, a firm could cut prices and increase sales without fear that its actions will prompt retaliatory responses from competitors.

Also the greater the degree of product differentiation-the more the firm can separate itself from the pack-the fewer firms there will be at market equilibrium.

The theory is that any action will have such a negligible effect on the overall market demand that an MC firm can act without fear of prompting heightened competition.

Sometimes, however, a smaller firm will acquire management control of a larger and / or longer-established company and retain the name of the latter for the post-acquisition combined entity.

Usually, one company will buy another and, as part of the deal's terms, simply allow the acquired firm to proclaim that the action is a merger of equals, even if it is technically an acquisition.

As synergy plays a large role in the valuation of acquisitions it is paramount to get the value of synergies right ; synergies are different from the " sales price " valuation of the firm, as they will accrue to the buyer.

Provided this occurs, the offer will stay ' firm ' for a period of 90 days.

Congress should then be asked to give the Peace Corps a firm legislative foundation for the next fiscal year.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

The pace could now be accelerated, for the inhabitants of the Aegean stood on firm ground.

She might be firm.

It was most unlikely that she would be firm.

He disliked Garth on sight, conservative clothes and haircut, smile a shade too earnestly boyish for a man who must be well into his thirties, handclasp too consciously quick and firm.

Another speaker, William H. Draper, Jr., former Under Secretary of the Army and now with the Palo Alto venture capital firm of Draper, Gaither & Anderson, urged the U.S. to `` throw down the gauntlet of battle to communism and tell Moscow bluntly we won't be pushed around any more ''.

Now you have to be well rounded, firm in motivation and pre-packed with knowledge ''!!

* Senior Principal / Partner: Typically an owner or majority shareholder of the firm ; may be the founder ; titles may include president, chief executive officer, or managing principal / partner.

The firm, Cappi & Diabelli became well known by arranging popular pieces so they could be played by amateurs at home.

The firm made no U. S. buys in 1998, but doubled its employee base with purchases including Spain's largest retail insurance broker, Gil y Carvajal, and the formation of Aon Korea, the first non-Korean firm of its kind to be licensed there.

This they easily crossed because they knew where the firm ground and the easy passages in this region were to be found ; but the Romans in attempting to follow them were not so successful.

Terrain would ideally be flat, firm, unobstructed by natural barriers or fortifications, and interspersed with roads and railways.

Pollen and nectar are usually combined together to form a " provision mass ", which is often soupy, but can be firm.

( For an IT company, the subject matter would be similar to the CIO's, however the CTO's focus is technology for the firm to sell versus technology used for facilitating the firm's own operations.

Second, corporate assets cannot be withdrawn by its shareholders, nor can the assets of the firm be taken by personal creditors of its shareholders.