How do people develop such a ghastly attitude, such an unbending devotion to rules? |
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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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Pyongyang's unbending attitude only makes it even more difficult to resolve the dispute through peaceful means. |
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I love shuffle and I have a fairly unbending rule that I don't look at the display and I don't fast forward. |
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John Paul II will rightly be praised for his unbending opposition to communism and his support for Lech Walesa. |
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The Thai Monarch is probably best known, universally, for his unbending resolve to improve the lives of each and every one of his people. |
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If Beijing sticks to its unbending attitude on the textbook issue, Japan and China will never be able to resolve the dispute. |
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Out of the mountains, unbending slowly from dense groves of coconut palms, pushes the sweet water of the Rio La Laja. |
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She was unbending and ordered a couple of security guards to hustle me out. |
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We treat this as a matter of the utmost importance, since we have a comprehensive, strict and unbending set of standards to miss. |
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It is quite right to be unbending when it comes to certain important principles. |
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From the highest to the lowest, all were entangled in a subtle web of mutual espionage, and every element of individuality was crushed under the weight of unbending formalism. |
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He exemplified courage, dignity, good humour and unbending principle. |
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Even Michael has some puppy fat, but Deron is all unbending bronze. |
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If the child is not truly integrated into a line of descent by an unbending family, it can lead to serious distress regarding identity. |
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Mumia's only crime was to be an unbending opponent of racism, police brutality, imperialist war and colonial depredation. |
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But on a note of caution: the European Parliament's control over this will be particularly unbending. |
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Now those positions are coming back to haunt him as Republican activists demand a candidate of unbending right-wing convictions. |
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From this point, it is unthinkable that president Morales would risk rushing headlong into a violent and unbending revolution. |
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Mr. Speaker, our predecessor, the Liberal Party, was always unbending and not open to Quebec. Our vision is completely different. |
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The purpose of the tool is to help us develop an unbending 'zero-infraction' attitude in our day-to-day business. |
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In narcissism, an inflated grandiosity is repeatedly punctured by an unbending reality. |
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These winds are whipped up, though, not by any want of retrenchment but by an unbending adhesion to the austerity dogma. |
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Don't let the unbending desire to get everything right all the time prevent you from taking risks, thinking big and learning valuable lessons. |
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Washington, unbending in his role as the noblest republican of them all, administered a severe blow to imperial pride. |
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The nonequilibrium S motor process takes a motor through a pathway in which the motor detaches from the track and then undergoes an unbending motion. |
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It didn't work because my fingers kept bending and unbending in his. |
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She stood in the dark hallway and began unbending bobby pins. |
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In the meantime, few could see any hope of reconciliation or resolution, at least not while the unbending figure of Maxim remains alive and at the head of the church. |
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Barrow, like Queeg, thinks that he can have his way and cut a singular figure as a commander by being unbending and demanding absolute adherence to the rules. |
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The unbending Presbyterian Scots, refusing to set foot in a pub, retaliated by building the stern little post office that still stands on the opposite corner. |
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Koop, a man of the far right, was standing tall and unbending. |
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Finally, I would like to stress that I very much regret the unbending stance adopted by Morocco, which has made an agreement which is advantageous to both sides impossible. |
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During the period that followed, Serbian policymakers and authorities showed time and again that they were unbending and fully dedicated to fulfilling their obligation. |
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Conclusion The deadline of 1 March 1994 set by the European Council in October for the conclusion of negotiations will require unbending resolve and considerable effort all round. |
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Later versions of his life recorded that he was a model king who treated all his subjects with equal justice and who was unbending to flatterers. |
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It can be empty and flexible, or it can be solid and unbending. |
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It does them no good to work for peace as long as feelings of hostility, contempt and distrust, as well as racial hatred and unbending ideologies, continue to divide men and place them in opposing camps. |
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We have one unbending standard of food safety, and the Nestlé Seal of Guarantee can not go on a package of food until newly built or acquired factories can meet a detailed and rigorous set of requirements. |
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To persons in search of stability in a rapidly changing world, they teach fundamentalist doctrines which often provide a false security in rigidly unbending moral codes of conduct. |
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Outside Germany, she is seen as unbending. |
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We have marked the very corporate-like environment we work in – all straight lines, uniform spaces, impenetrable concrete, unbending steel – with signs of alternative voices, thoughts-in-the-making and issues up for debate. |
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In spite of all the defects and imperfections in these primitive techniques and the unbending opponents of the time, the benefits for mankind have been immense. |
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Simple sail change without bending and unbending the jib hanks. |
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Thailand was asking us to lower the cost of accessing international markets, but the West is unbending on that point: protectionist barriers cannot be touched. |
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In a difficult economic and stock market environment, we did the utmost to provide our clients with the top-quality services and unbending confidentiality to which they are entitled. |
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Samuel was stern, serious and deeply in earnest. He seldom smiled and never laughed. He was uncompromisingly religious, conscientious and morally unbending. |
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Unbending he deflects rage, loves her extremes, highs, lows, and in-betweens. |
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