firm stamp

Though they move with coordinated precision in Ms. Ziemba's exuberant routines, which evoke the vibrancy and varied vocabulary of Jerome Robbins's work on Broadway, each performer registers with a firm stamp of individuality.

It was during the twenty-seven year Generalate of Father Wlodzimierz Ledochowski (1915 - 1942) that the traditional character of the Society received the firmest stamp and clearest definition since the Generalate of Claudio Acquaviva in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

There were hints as well that any move toward openness and democracy would bear the Kremlin's firm stamp and that Mr. Putin would continue the policies that have been the focus of condemnations of late, including cuts to social benefits, the protracted war in Chechnya and consolidation of political power in the executive branch.