Standfast

Our "standfast" was lifted as of Sunday, and Peace Corps drove those of us who were in Tashkent home (except for those flying out West). ❋ Unknown (2004)

We volunteers are on standfast right now which means we can´t travel outside of this area in Pantoja. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fortunately, we were released the next morning, but were on standfast for the rest of the weekend – meaning we had to stay in site. ❋ Belizean' A New Trail (2008)

Needless to say, I am ok, and all volunteers have been place on “standfast”, which means to stay put, not to leave our present locations, and to be alert. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I'm glad to hear that they lifted standfast so quickly. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Dee says that standfast has been lifted for Peace Corps Uzbekistan. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The ability to standfast when everyone is screaming the sky is falling is a quality I cherish. ❋ Miss Snark (2005)

People of standfast habit were always shy of this young person, because, having an acute brain and generous impulses, and being a New-Englander by birth, she had believed herself called to be a reformer, and had lectured in public last winter. ❋ Various (N/A)

But the vamp, in the long run, either dies or reveals herself in her true colours and the hero goes back to the standfast who has never relinquished her adoration for him. ❋ Unknown (1933)

All Peace Corps volunteers have been accounted for and are on standfast. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meanwhile, any enemy EW unit (standfast Terry), would be rubbing their hands together at these enormous 20W power spikes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Therefore standfast brethren ittkoitihe traSiions which ye have been taught, whether ❋ Unknown (1812)

(standfast Para Reg (R)) is nowhere near CIC standard. ❋ Unknown (2009)

however, a standfast order was issued, and additional security measures were implemented. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Prayer, my sin-beset brethren, standfast prayer, is the otherwise unidentified haemony whose best habitat was the Garden of Gethsemane; and with that holy root in your heart and in your mouth, there is "no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against ❋ Alexander Whyte (1878)