(a.) Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things.
(a.) Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; -- applied to persons.
(a.) Unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; -- applied to abstract ideas; as, unbending truths.
(a.) Devoted to relaxation or amusement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given President Afwerki’s unbending resistance to such moves in the past, there is reason to be sceptical.
(2) Though far from a scholarship boy and privately educated, my life was changed by The Uses of Literacy in 1959. Who can forget some of its chapter mottoes, from Wordsworth, de Tocqueville, Arnold and "Schnozzle" Durante, and the chapter titles Unbending the Springs of Action and Invitations to a Candy-Floss World?
(3) His unbending obsession was with benefits for people of working age.
(4) There state employees protected by labour rules and given higher wages – the result of years of unbending trade unionism – have seen work decline precipitously.
(5) She provoked uproar with her 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , charting her unbending rules for raising her daughters, and spent two years dealing with the fallout, including death threats, racial slurs and pitchfork-waving calls for her arrest on child-abuse charges.
(6) Integrating a large group of people into Apple's strong, unbending culture would, alone, prove to be impossible.
(7) This premelting may correspond to the thermally induced "unbending" of the duplex.
(8) The Paris COP 21 talks surpassed expectations in rising to it, demonstrating just how much can be achieved by determined diplomacy, even while working within the unbending red lines of jealously sovereign states.
(9) They did not need to be confronted by an unbending foot soldier of the Irish Taliban.
(10) Wenderoth and O'Connor (1987b) reported that, although matches to the straight edge of two triangles placed apex to apex revealed an apparent bending in the direction of the chevron formed by the hypotenuse pair (the Bourdon effect), no perceptual unbending of the bent chevron occurred.
(11) In both data sets, there was a large and significant pretest bending effect, which enhanced the magnitude of unbending test minus pretest scores.
(12) In these cases, what began as a relatively small and contained protest against a university administration - a protest by the young and impatient against the old and unbending - burgeoned into a mass movement against the government.
(13) And those who want Britain to remain an open society should not assume the public is unbendingly hostile.
(14) We obtained Bourdon effects similar to those in Experiment 1, but much larger unbending effects.
(15) There is frustration among the population with what is perceived as the unbending attitude of the lenders.
(16) We propose that subjective obtuse angle contraction that exceeds real obtuse angle contraction explains the fact that unbending effects are larger in subjective than in real contours.
(17) Nevertheless, Bourdon effects were significantly larger than unbending effects in one set of data; and in another, Bourdon test means were larger than unbending test means.
(18) Born in postwar rationing, the Defender feels as quintessentially British as the Queen, Churchill or Bond, among the other national icons who have been plonked atop its unbending chassis.
(19) The aim of the reposition is to correct the axis of the vertebra by means of reestablishment of the shape and mass of the injured vertebra body by unbending and simultaneous stretching the vertebral column.
(20) That state of deprivation though is, of course, the condition that many of those rioting endure as their unbending reality.
Unending
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
(2) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(3) Special care in the management of so-called 'chronic Lyme disease' is crucial lest the clinician prescribes prolonged or unending courses of antibiotics for such noninfectious problems.
(4) Many wonder if Ai will tire of the unending tussle and move abroad.
(5) I, of course, told myself at the time that it was because there was something foul about the scene unfolding in my living room; something toxifying in this soft-world parody of the worst, most irredeemable yet persistent aspect of human nature: the unending horror of judgment and mass execution.
(6) Johnson’s complaint states that since he had become chair and chief executive, Martinez “has subjected Johnson and other employees to an unending stream of racist and sexist comments as well as unwanted touching and other unlawful conduct”.
(7) The Pentagon produced a theory to suit: the Long War doctrine postulating unending conflict against ill-defined but ubiquitous enemies.
(8) But so often, open worlds are built from architectural filler – bland unending landscapes and cardboard box tenements.
(9) The core themes expressed include the unending attempt to put the patient in touch with the surroundings; trying to stay ahead of the patient; a decline in the reciprocal relationship; narrowing of the caregiver's horizons; and a search for personal connectedness.
(10) He said his early resignation would undermine the legitimacy of his successors, creating a recipe for unending chaos.
(11) Yet for the families of the mostly young people who died, there has been unending grief, and a traumatic legal ordeal leaving them with questions still unanswered.
(12) Thus may the long night of pain and violence, with the support of all Colombians, become an unending day of concord, justice, fraternity and love... so that there may be lasting peace.” Farc leaders had hoped the pope would agree to meet with negotiators from both sides during his three-day visit to Cuba but the Vatican denied that a meeting would take place.
(13) This is all part of what is supposed to be a clash of civilisations, unending, implacable, irremediable.
(14) After NYT Editorial board editor David Firestone posted the NYT's editorial on Twitter and heralded the speech as "a momentous turning point, making clear an unending state of war is unsustainable," I asked him : "Will it be 'momentous' if it's not followed up with decisive and prompt action?"
(15) Updated at 2.11am GMT 2.03am GMT We're an hour into a possibly unending event and there is yet to be a wedding.
(16) The tax would mean graduates faced "an unending liability", he says, and "the absolute killer" was how European Union students would pay for their degrees under such a system.
(17) In the unending struggle to keep up with new technologies and services, libraries have had to support increasing demands while they receive a decreasing share of the health care dollar.
(18) But it is clear that tackling the crisis in Iraq cannot ignore the unending and de-stabilising war next door.
(19) With that and the unending energy crisis in mind, the Pakistan government has been wooing multinationals at a series of oil and gas exploration conferences in London, Houston and Calgary last week.
(20) The basic idea of New Labour was that the party had been held back by our tendency to let once sensible policy positions become unquestionable and unending ideological commitments... Too often, the Labour party had made a fetish of state action when the means should have been whatever it took to get the ends achieved.