How To Use Unbending In A Sentence

  • It didn't work because my fingers kept bending and unbending in his.
  • Because Cassius is yoked to him both in love and their deadly and momentous endeavour, he is a tragic hero too, powerless against the unbending resolve of Brutus to do what philosophy, not opportunity, dictates.
  • He belonged to a family of high rank and unbending pride which would brook no mésalliance, and yet wealth could no longer be considered secure except in plebeian hands. Indiana
  • We treat this as a matter of the utmost importance, since we have a comprehensive, strict and unbending set of standards to miss.
  • AA LB Brandon Spikes was concerned in an eye gouging incident which led HC Herban Meyer to announce which this was a teaching moment for his team, as good as he followed which up with a unbending chastisement for Spikes of a cessation from a Vandy diversion for a 1st half. Archive 2009-11-01
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  • But he's clearly a man of principle and unbending honesty - who, at times, can be cruelly insensitive, as when he tells a man he has casually examined that he has a tumour.
  • A highly publicised investigation of Hollywood in 1947 resulted in prison sentences for a group of unbending witnesses, writers and filmmakers who came to be known as the ‘Hollywood Ten’.
  • 14 Hence, when a pawn is stolen the pawnee can sue, even though his debtor be perfectly able to pay the debt; for it is more advantageous to him to rely on the pledge, than to bring a personal action: and this rule is so unbending that even the pawnor who steals a pawn is suable for theft by the pawnee. The Institutes of Justinian
  • 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.
  • The galloglass were renowned for their valor and steadfastness in battle - and an unbending loyalty to their employers.
  • It was, therefore, to take a leading trait of character, in this instance the uncompromising, unbending business ethic of a London merchant, and to trace its damaging development and its ultimate, purgative downfall.
  • The whole middle east quagmire is as a result of the U.S. policy in backing the most unbending nation in the world. Kennedy says no to joint ticket
  • The Minister was proving unbending on key issues.
  • 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.
  • He had been its implacable scourge, its unbending critic, preaching and practising austerity and revenge.
  • The man looked past Crook at Elizabeth's unbending profile. STAGE FRIGHT
  • You can imagine why a dynamic, self-adjusting system cannot be governed by a static, unbending policy.
  • He was resolute, firm and unbending in his position toward Nazi Germany's aggression.
  • Out of the mountains, unbending slowly from dense groves of coconut palms, pushes the sweet water of the Rio La Laja.
  • Pyongyang's unbending attitude only makes it even more difficult to resolve the dispute through peaceful means.
  • He remained unbending under the severest of tortures.
  • She felt her own stiffness, her own unbending hard shell as she moved around doing her mother's chores - now her chores. FAMILY PICTURES
  • Times change and Skye's economy now relies on the seven-days-a - week business of tourism but further out at sea, on the Outer Hebridean island of Lewis to which Smith withdrew, the unbending religion he epitomises has held on.
  • 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.
  • John Paul II will rightly be praised for his unbending opposition to communism and his support for Lech Walesa.
  • One example given was of a Dutchman seeking consensus but all the Dutchmen I know are are a blunt, individualistic and unbending lot - a world away from the Japanese.
  • Patnaik was an unbending man with firm convictions.
  • The world's most fearful autarch finally encountered someone more unbending, self-righteous and ideological than himself. Times, Sunday Times
  • If Beijing sticks to its unbending attitude on the textbook issue, Japan and China will never be able to resolve the dispute.
  • Such an unbending position was his ‘obligation’ to the public.
  • I know it is somewhat uneventful, but I should point out that should one of the pins get bent, you are going to have a heck of a time unbending it, as the pins are extremely closely spaced together and quite tiny.
  • They desire clear, unbending moral and behavioral codes, a fondness for systematization, a willingness to tolerate inequality and an inherently pessimistic view of human nature. June Carbone: Polarized Politics: How Extremists Have Taken America Hostage
  • The one unbending rule that bleacherites are required to follow is this: should an opposing player hit a home run into the bleachers, the ball must be thrown back onto the field.
  • He has earned a reputation as a stern and unbending politician.
  • She stood in the dark hallway and began unbending bobby pins.
  • For his admirers that clear vision was reflected in his unbending refusal to consider ‘a betrayal of the great principle for which we have been fighting for the last 30 or 40 years.’
  • Those are the words of her husband - and they provide a tantalizing glimpse into the private life of a man whose public demeanor was that of an unbending, ruthless soldier.
  • Thus full of contradictions, unbending yet haughty, gentle yet fierce, tender and again neglectful, he by some strange art found easy entrance to the admiration and affection of women; now caressing and now tyrannizing over them according to his mood, but in every change a despot. I.4
  • One of these unbending attitudes is related to language.
  • The Thai Monarch is probably best known, universally, for his unbending resolve to improve the lives of each and every one of his people.
  • an unbending will to dominate
  • How do people develop such a ghastly attitude, such an unbending devotion to rules?
  • We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
  • 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.
  • I love shuffle and I have a fairly unbending rule that I don't look at the display and I don't fast forward.
  • Perhaps, this is unbending youth from northeast of China.
  • I'd always had Watts down as an unbending authoritarian, but now I realized I'd misjudged him. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
  • The chill rain of this unbending April pattered at the window. LOADED QUESTIONS
  • How to explain this unbending sense of rectitude?
  • In this respect he is indeed just like her: courageous and unbending when facing up to the weak, the workers and the poor; grovelling and sycophantic to the rich, the strong and the powerful.
  • She was unbending and ordered a couple of security guards to hustle me out.
  • He reacted against it as an institution with an unbendingly dogmatic definition of itself.
  • In early June, Eisenhower reconsidered his rule of unbending neutrality in all prenomination races. Going Home to Glory
  • He cut a singular figure as a commander by being unbending and demanding absolute adherence to the rules.
  • But he's clearly a man of principle and unbending honesty - who, at times, can be cruelly insensitive, as when he tells a man he has casually examined that he has a tumour.

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