Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not giving way to pressure; hard or inflexible.
- adjective Incapable of being changed; unalterable.
- adjective Not willing to change or be persuaded; resolute.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not yielding to force, persuasion, or treatment; unbending; unpliant; stiff; firm; obstinate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
giving in ; notbending ;stubborn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resistant to physical force or pressure
- adjective stubbornly unyielding
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Examples
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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - McCain unyielding in call for gas tax relief « - Blogs from CNN. com
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The viewer's experience now allows him/her to see a world which naïve eyes had believed to be stable, entrenched and unyielding, is actually in a state of constant flux.
William Blake and the Study of Virtual Space: Adapting 'The Crystal Cabinet' to a New Medium 2005
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Bruinhelde, his expression unyielding, glanced over at Andacanavar; and the ranger moved past Midalis, sweeping the Prince and Bruinhelde into his wake, heading quickly for the nearest fallen Alpinadorans.
Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999
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Bruinhelde, his expression unyielding, glanced over at Andacanavar; and the ranger moved past Midalis, sweeping the Prince and Bruinhelde into his wake, heading quickly for the nearest fallen Alpinadorans.
Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999
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It will not dampen our resolve, for our resolve is indivisible and unyielding, which is a weapon infinitely stronger than the plots and the plans of those who wish to do us harm. al Qaeda wants to intimidate us and prevent us from enjoying our lives and exercising our freedoms.
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I love their blathering about "unyielding" Republicans when they can't even get this through their own overwhelming majority.
Kennedy 'expected more of us' on health care, Dodd says 2009
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This kind of unyielding opposition is what the modern Congressional Republican Party, one dominated by conservatives from ultra-red districts where Sarah Palin would easily outpoll Barack Obama, does best.
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The Bush administration spent its first term engaged in a largely abstract, theoretical conversation about radical Islam and its evils — and conservative intellectuals still spout this kind of unyielding rhetoric.
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This kind of unyielding opposition is what the modern Congressional Republican Party, one dominated by conservatives from ultra-red districts where Sarah Palin would easily outpoll Barack Obama, does best.
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This kind of unyielding opposition is what the modern Congressional Republican Party, one dominated by conservatives from ultra-red districts where Sarah Palin would easily outpoll Barack Obama, does best.
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