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  • (My mother is also an immigrant – though England so not very exotic I guess) Immigrant parents never cease to amaze me in their unyeilding effort to do everything for their children and put asside their own needs.

    All news is BAD news until told otherwise « Bored Mommy 2009

  • With it, he began to write upon the unyeilding black surface.

    365 tomorrows » 2008 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

  • With it, he began to write upon the unyeilding black surface.

    365 tomorrows » Divine Revelation : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

  • Roberts comes off as the typically unyeilding preacher who (secretly) revels in producing such gruesome scenes.

    Truly Scary, Part I: Halloween Hell House 2009

  • Unlike the Israeli position, which is and has always been, rich, dynamic and flexible, The palestinian position is frozen in ice or bloody ice, unyeilding, uncomprehending and priminitive.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • In some cases, your motion will be limited by joints, others by stiff tendons, and in others by unyeilding muscles.

    Moving beyond stretching Steven Barnes 2008

  • In some cases, your motion will be limited by joints, others by stiff tendons, and in others by unyeilding muscles.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Steven Barnes 2008

  • However, the problem is that she was so unyeilding, so divisive and the plan she put forward was so unpalatable to people needed to pass it that it died a horrible death FOR 2 DECADES!

    Clinton Courts the Undecided - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Perhaps that is what I resist and embrace about the book, its instructive and hopeful exploration of motherhood in narrative, an unyeilding self-examination through language, and narrative...made more complicated by the literal spiritual interrogation, the constant searching, the "seeking out his face in a cup."

    Fanny Howe Lemon Hound 2006

  • Perhaps that is what I resist and embrace about the book, its instructive and hopeful exploration of motherhood in narrative, an unyeilding self-examination through language, and narrative...made more complicated by the literal spiritual interrogation, the constant searching, the "seeking out his face in a cup."

    Archive 2006-07-01 Lemon Hound 2006

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