(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.
Unyielding
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In these patients, the conservative treatment by bouginage could not be continued due to a stricture unyielding for dilatation or early recurrence of the stricture after a number of dilatations.
(2) Suturing of these ostia is occasionally difficult because of an unyielding calcified vessel wall.
(3) The captain, Rio Ferdinand, was nearly as unyielding.
(4) Its enlargement of the lower portion overlying the basal portion of the heart formed an unyielding, tense membrane.
(5) The inefficient application of an unyielding (non-inertial) lap and diagonal seat belt permitted this injury, although one does not know what other injuries might have occurred had the belt not been worn.
(6) Recommendations to avoid this complication include shortening of the forearm at the osteotomy site and the release of unyielding soft tissue restraints.
(7) Although this study supported the thesis that a porous HA matrix can function as a bone graft substitute, it is noted that the unyielding nature of the implant blocks, compared to granules, requires a solution to the challenge of long-term denture support without ulceration before it can be used with clinical confidence.
(8) If Hollywood needed an emblematic heroine for a year of hard times and tough decisions, it came in the form of Jennifer Lawrence: resolute, unyielding and somehow old beyond her age.
(9) Climate change provides an unyielding science-based deadline.
(10) But he was more than just cinema's great choreographer of scale, the man Anthony Quinn likened to a general, commanding his troops and preparing for battle out in the blazing Arabian desert, or the unyielding Burmese jungle, or on the frostbitten Eastern Front.
(11) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
(12) The unyielding response of Italy, France and Germany came amidst a tsunami of global condemnation for Trump’s decision to renege on an agreement made by 195 countries after decades of negotiation.
(13) This happens in an area in which the deep branch of the radial nerve crossed some narrow structures which are unyielding and have more compression strength (tense cords of connective tissue Fig.
(14) Chen Xi once saw the one-child policy as a brick wall, unyielding and inevitable.
(15) Philosophers first, then early academic physiologists began to exhibit interest in pain, that all too common phenomenon, only too often unyielding to theoretical as well as practical efforts.
(16) This procedure consisted of the application of a rigid clip with a fixed and unyielding gap to the left renal artery and removal of the right kidney.
(17) He admired, and liked, practical people, especially those who had tasted some experience of life outside the City and Whitehall; he often appeared unyielding and unforgiving to the fumbling contradictions of political life, and he certainly had a very low threshold of patience with fools.
(18) As it was, the dominant performer in the stalemate was a resourceful and unyielding centre-half, United's Nemanja Vidic.
(19) It’s the work of the old masters, whoever your masters are, really, that remind you that you have to be singular, inflexible, unyielding in your own work so that even the struggle, that very struggle to achieve, becomes its own reward.
(20) But dogma has a habit of being unyielding, and Corbyn shows few signs of being able to develop fresh responses to a world that has changed out of recognition since his formative political impulses of the late 70s: what to do about the growing influence of Islamic State, the ethics of gene editing or the challenges that technology presents to issues as diverse as employment or transport.