Word: unyieldingness
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His death seems to point out the difference that one man can make, equipped with unyielding hope and a willingness to battle these ills.
The current strike is the fourth at Yale since 1968, when student workers broke the first walkout after six days. In 1971 the strike lasted seven weeks, and three years ago Local 35 was out for ten weeks. There must be some compromise, before this year's strike drags on...
The parallel is not overlooked by Protestant extremists, who use it to justify their claims of Catholic disloyalty and subversion. Catholic demands for civil rights and economic parity are therefore easily dismissed by Protestants, not so much out of disbelief, as out of an unyielding conviction that any concession moves...
But as a rule it is implicitly understood to be the agent of other, almost equally potent divisive forces-class distinctions, for example, or unyielding morality-and the fact that such considerations have the power to keep postmodern lovers apart for no more than about 30 seconds presents the contemporary...
The new constitution might have been more acceptable, if less politically feasible, a decade ago, when the unyielding stance of the National Party had a broader base of white popular support. To succeed now, the government will have to allay suspicion by coloreds that it is only trying to capture...