Definition of "hold firm" [hold firm]

• Refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The audience was exhorted to hold firm to its hardwon agreements on pay, conditions, and redundancy; to stand up to their new proprietors and show them who really ran the newspapers; and not to concede so much as a matchstick of dead wood to new technology."
• "To relax into his desire, to give herself to him body and soul, to forget that the person that was Jessica Moore mattered not at all to him, to forget that the future would hold nothing for them except a waning of passion and a long boredom: it was very hard to hold firm against all these urges when she saw him."
• "In this way, by continually reinforcing their position at Yelnya and keeping up a succession of local counterattacks, the Russians managed to hold firm at the northern end of the breach."