The long season leads to unyielding pressure on players to perform at their optimum level throughout the year. |
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We're absolutely unyielding, though, on the subject of our good intentions. |
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The sturdy roots dug deep into unyielding rocks and drew nourishment from the seemingly sterile soil. |
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Further afield where camels browse, we found dried-up, and unyielding acacia trees, normally a reliable source of sustenance. |
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As Mr Fowles again points out, we find ourselves adrift on a raft, in a silent, unyielding universe, dominated by hazard and infinitude. |
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This unyielding doctrinairism necessarily brought about the decline of liberalism. |
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It also helps protect your body from being injured by the unyielding hard metal and plastic surfaces on the inside of your car. |
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It is as if all that running around is a smoke-screen, a dazzling distraction to hide the hard and unyielding carapace. |
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Viewers may be surprised to learn these seemingly unyielding shapes are in fact hollow. |
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Friends credit his survival to his positive outlook, his unyielding faith and an iron will. |
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He found himself standing before his unyielding foe, fist cocked, and suddenly shook his head. |
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The drive she feels to achieve, Simone says, can be traced directly to the unyielding support she has felt from her family. |
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Over many years we've demonstrated an unyielding commitment to craft coffees and teas of uncompromised quality. |
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Unlike the previous confrontation, however, his men were equally unyielding. |
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They need some kind of invisible stitching, a dash of the X factor that brings an unyielding aura. |
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The dignified way in which she battled her brain tumour is a credit to her unyielding character. |
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Those who worked with Cameron found him arrogant and unyielding to pressure to alter the course he had set. |
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You hack away with a pick-axe, rewarded only by a few flying chips from the unyielding rock. |
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The malignant effects of chronic pain in children are multifactorial and relatively unyielding without treatment. |
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Katherine first started therapy as a rigid, unyielding business person, with no sense of frivolity or joy. |
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He is unyielding in his perceptions, and his rigidity both elevates and isolates him. |
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She was a tough woman of unyielding principle, standing up in protest against war, injustice and conditions of impoverishment. |
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Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing. |
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Like all self-made millionaires, there is an unyielding drive to Boyle, an urge to act, to be decisive, to control the reins of his life. |
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Athletic and unyielding though they might be, the visitors were not always the cause of the match's nasty undercurrents bubbling to the surface. |
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The fighting will be ferocious and unyielding, the casualties enormous, the narrow alleyways are already booby-trapped. |
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Needless to say, his unyielding defense of the Gospel and unbending refusal to compromise on liturgical and unionistic issues alienated many. |
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Looking below to the hard, unyielding surface below, it is the first time I've had second thought about the whole warrior trainee thing. |
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There's the burly athlete whose pectoral development is matched only by his unyielding vanity. |
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Another fault among instructors is a tendency to be unyielding and dogmatic. |
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Who says electronic devices have to be moulded out of unyielding plastic or milled from hard metal? |
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He was a steely fellow, a man with a gentle Southern accent and an unyielding faith in discipline. |
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A compelling leader with brilliant intelligence, he was adamant and unyielding in his mission. |
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Yet, when put under pressure the apparent unyielding stiffness becomes a lovely springy curve, and it's that which puts pressure on the fish. |
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He enjoys the vast, unyielding power of nature much more than the bustle of city life and civilization. |
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Acute limb compartment syndrome is a surgical emergency characterised by raised pressure in an unyielding osteofascial compartment. |
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All the while he uses his sword to clear his path of ghouls, skeletons and all sorts of unyielding dead things. |
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He coached them in becoming proficient riders and huntsmen, skilled archers and unyielding wrestlers. |
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Instead Hitler found Franco unyielding in his refusal to compromise his nonbelligerency and to permit German troops on Spanish soil. |
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In 2004, his health began to fail, but given his strong unyielding spirit he continued his work as long as was practical. |
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Rain splashed against the unyielding rock, shattering into droplets, fragments scattering everywhere. |
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As the iron-jawed dowager, Diana Rigg has a venomous tongue and a bitter, unyielding nature. |
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It's not that I'm a big softy, but that Whale Rider is so good at showing how a deep abiding love can go hand-in-hand with unyielding harshness. |
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It's hard, unyielding rock, 700 million to 800 million years old, left over from an ancient mountain range. |
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His is a story of a remarkable, unyielding spirit and uncompromisingly fierce defiance. |
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The Tramore defence was unyielding, however, and the final whistle sounded as Richard Hickey cleared the ball to midfield. |
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Her stiff, unyielding upper body makes it hard to color her roles with real, heartfelt emotion. |
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The surface is mushy in places, icy and unyielding in others, and higher up there are rock chutes and faces protruding through the snowpack. |
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This Tuff case is the definitive accessory that will provide your DSi with unyielding security and protection wherever you take it! |
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Europe should therefore remain unyielding and continue to speak with one voice. |
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But their hopes for the future run up against Javanese prejudices and unyielding Dutch colonial law. |
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In the event of unyielding maintenance of language that is basically offensive, we must resolve to close a case without further ado. |
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His left side felt cold, pressing against a hard unyielding surface. |
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The socialists had an egalitarian dream, the achievement of which inevitably foundered under their managerial inexperience and the unyielding zeal of their convictions. |
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Contending that the government's actions were racially discriminatory, Mr. Hirabayashi proved unyielding. |
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The change, however, is as slow and faltering as authoritarian governance is unyielding. |
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With his slight frame and boyish looks, Brown may look like a soft touch, but there's a tough, unyielding obstinacy to him. |
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Through her work, Megan has demonstrated an unyielding dedication to community involvement. |
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They require a strong multilateral approach that needs the commitment and unyielding support of the international community as a whole. |
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The minister is very imaginative when it comes to helping the other Canadian provinces, but his unyielding attitude toward Quebec is legendary. |
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His delegation regretted the unyielding insistence on retaining new, non-agreed language, which had hampered the negotiations. |
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Nothing should compromise our unyielding commitment to performance with integrity. |
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Which part of a bike weighs less than a kilogram yet is as solid and unyielding as rock? |
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The rock in Wales's unyielding defence 11 Shane Williams, Wales Now officially Wales' best-loved wizard. |
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The issuance, per se, of Decree 2047 was a significant change from the unyielding resistance of the past. |
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For example, the drop test surface should be described sufficiently to show that it represents an essentially unyielding surface. |
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It's a harsh, unyielding world, utterly alien to the English newcomers. |
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She wore an apple-green housedress and her graying beehive hairdo was unyielding against the blasts of a chugging air conditioner. |
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I make angry pain noises, clawing at her unyielding fingers in agony. |
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Both insisted Goldwater was scaring away the swing voters Republicans needed with his unyielding conservatism. |
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As unyielding as any of the cold war communist regimes, it is neither economically liberal nor politically democratic, but has ruled for all but one of the past 46 years. |
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Crisp, sharp hurling, was complemented by an unyielding spirit and determination, with the players confidently marshalling their sectors with great gusto. |
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But the best of him testifies both to his unyielding pursuit of perfection in his craft and to a character that was far from being the milk-and-water saint of legend. |
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Spader, so intense and riveting last year as Red, has lost some of that unyielding relentlessness. |
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That standard and his unyielding hold to keeping up those standards made me want to work harder, but I only realized that after. |
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Some are very gentle, polite, and accommodating during the workday to clients and customers, but when they come home they become demanding and unyielding tyrants. |
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The spine cracked as he opened it, and the paper was stiff and unyielding. |
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The cliffs are so solid and unyielding and yet, these beautiful, persistent plants are allowed to set their roots into that so seemingly impervious surface. |
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The main raw material that is a compound of polyester resin mixed with calcium carbonate is caste in silicone rubber which helps in giving it an unyielding structure. |
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He was quintessentially labor, he was uncompromising in his stance for the poor and the dispossessed, and he was unyielding in his respect for the dignity of work. |
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Alas, it not only had large keys, but a stiff and unyielding action. |
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Most famous for his swashbuckling systems and successes at Foggia more than 10 years ago, he was an unyielding believer in attack as the best form of defence. |
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One of the golden threads that links all these great people is their unyielding commitment to do that which was right in the face of mammoth challenges. |
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Women often tied their veils together so as not to get lost, or clasped hands in an unyielding grip that made it impossible to pass through a group in closed formation. |
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Beyond the unyielding stance of politicians who do not want to have anything to do with any kind of association with a sovereign Quebec, the people show plain common sense, realism and pragmatism. |
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As always, the Fund would not have been able to carry out any of its work during the year without the unyielding support of its member governments. |
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But this week Northern Ireland suddenly switched from contemplating a more flexible form of politics, and instead plunged back into the old game of unyielding confrontation. |
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Peter McKintosh's beautiful abstract design is lofty, unyielding. |
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The rigidity of the 1970s economies, where union power and indexed contracts meant wages were unyielding, only magnified the adverse effects of oil shocks. |
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In lighters our unyielding commitment to quality and safety has set us apart from competitors and will continue to strengthen our leadership position. |
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Henze did a marvelous job organizing the unyielding material that assists the reader in navigating the book and its contents. |
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There is one thing at GE that is not negotiable: We expect all of our employees to do the right thing. They are expected to operate with unyielding integrity. |
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Gethin Jenkins, celebrating his 100th cap, and Richard Hibbard, tackling ferociously, were unyielding in the battle with the famed Argentinian scrummagers. |
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It confirms the unyielding continuation of one of SIDI's essential pursuits: to give impetus to the partners' sustainable social change with the help of the Solidarity Chain for Financing. |
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Issue estoppel should be applied flexibly where an unyielding application of it would be unfair to a party who is precluded from re-litigating an issue. |
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Pierre, French for 'stone', the coarseness of the canvas, the roughness of a dense brush sculpting the white surface, turning it black from the inside out, subjecting it to the unyielding harshness of the light. |
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In order to advance through levels, players must learn to master the abilities of the powerful runner Erik the Swift, burly defender Olaf the Stout, and the unyielding swordsman Baleog the Fierce. |
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I loved her clear-headed, unyielding practicality. |
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This has been a particularly unpleasant business in the summer months, when the heat and humidity are unyielding, and one that resulted in a lot of sweaty tourists then tramping around the hallowed spaces. |
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The unyielding coolness is, admittedly, hard-won. |
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Students are told that if they want to succeed they must be like King Goujian, sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall that great accomplishments come only with sacrifice and unyielding purpose. |
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In this regard, it is sufficient to call to mind the proliferation of the sects and movements expounding fundamentalist philosophy or to consider the unyielding urge to react to or escape from historic conditions of the past. |
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Without the vision, the courage and the unyielding struggles of Dr Paul BĂ©langer and the self-sacrificing staff of UIE, it would not have been possible for the Institute to pull through and make a contribution. |
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Mike Hayes completed the tally on 76 minutes as Port found the rock-hard Quay defence again in unyielding form, but too late to matter. |
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They serve to affirm that when children regard us, they do so by taking us at our word, by reminding us of the present, and in evaluations without context, which are ofttimes the most thorough and unyielding. |
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What Granik and her cinematographer Michael McDonough do, unhurriedly yet so compellingly, is to seal us within this hardscrabble milieu and its unyielding, lawless atmosphere. |
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The harvest was fairly early and I suspect the unripeness of someof the crop is responsible for its variability: best in the Graves on the Right Bank, harder, more unyielding in the Medoc. |
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The nets and technicoloured lights clearly displayed the unyielding slate-mine floor below. |
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Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide of days, a yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed? |
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The front part, called the cephalothorax, is enclosed within a relatively hard and unyielding chitinous shell. |
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They could have a field day blasting the bureaucracy for being too slow, too unyielding, and for making Los Angeles an impossible place to do business. |
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Even as it buckled over the years and the nail heads at the edges popped up and rusted from repeated moppings, that floor symbolized her unyielding independence. |
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A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all. |
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