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  • Unyielding commitment to the human and economic rights of persons with disabilities is the lifeblood of many people in the disability community.

    Elisabeth Rhyne: A New Financial Access Frontier: Persons With Disabilities 2010

  • Unyielding, he is, but decides to throw off his characteristic 1970s textbook style and has a mad swipe at a wide one that races to the third man boundary past an empty slip cordon for four.

    England v Pakistan – as it happened! 2010

  • Unyielding even rigid in his public life, Eduard was a study in contradictions in his private life.

    'The Man Who Sold America' 2010

  • In his review of Edmund S. Morgan's essay collection American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who S.aped Early America [NYR, June 11], Russell Baker, drawing on the estimates mentioned in Morgan's 1958 essay "The Unyielding Indian," wrote that in North America at the time of Columbus, "there may have been scarcely more than a million inhabitants."

    Clarification Editors, The 2009

  • In a chapter on the "Unyielding Indian," written in 1958, Mr. Morgan begins by noting the immense diversity that distinguished the many tribes and civilizations of pre-Columbian America.

    The Naysayers' Achievement 2009

  • Unyielding support for the war in Iraq may yet prove to be an electoral albatross, but for the moment it is being seen as proof of McCain's integrity.

    The Pilot vs. The Preacher 2008

  • Unyielding in its expectations of a woman's role in maintaining a career, home, husband and family.

    CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2008 2008

  • Unyielding, he then tackles the malignancies that eat away at our once great nation from the eradicating of political corruption, to health care for every American, to bringing the troops home from Iraq, to rolling back the massive trust-fund tax breaks shamelessly passed during the preceding five years.

    Democratic Candidate for Ohio, Charles Sanders, Has No "Intellectual Confusion!" 2006

  • Twenty-six entries in I and the Bird #24 blog carnival are now available in cartoon format at Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding thanks to the artistic and creative genius of Carel Brest van Kempen.

    I and the Bird #24 John L. Trapp 2006

  • Miss Snark, the literary agent: The Changing Room...also Abattoir for the Unyielding skip to main

    The Changing Room...also Abattoir for the Unyielding Miss Snark 2005

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