Through polling and focus groups, the Romney campaign has found that while undecided women said they were concerned primarily about economic issues, they were troubled by whether Mr. Romney's positions on issues like abortion and contraception were too unyielding.
There was a brief on-stage demo fail when an iPhone X apparently failed to identify Craig Federighi's face, and therefore wouldn't unlock — displaying the other potential problem here, given that a tech that's too unyielding in opening up to its owner may be highly secure but it won't be at all convenient.
Another conductor and orchestra might have been able to take over at these points and sweep us along; but Dudamel's conducting was too often unyielding and foursquare, the orchestra's range of colour too limited.
That's in part because normal red blood cells are able to squeeze through tiny capillaries to carry oxygen throughout the body, but red blood cells carrying malaria parasites are unable to do so because they're too big and unyielding.
The Hundred Years' War brought representative institutions to the fore on both sides of the English Channel, but by that time it had become clear that the estates were too unwieldy (and too unyielding) to become an organ of consent for the French monarchy.
They argue that current Snell-rated helmets are too rigid and unyielding to properly absorb impact energy in the great majority of motorcycle crashes, subjecting riders to preventable brain injuries.
On the other hand, I was too aggressive, opinionated and unyielding in my beliefs -- the way women who are persistent and goal-oriented are often branded when men with the same qualities are lauded.
His plunge in public popularity can be traced to his fumbling of the state budget--too quick to tax one year, too unyielding the next, resulting in summer gridlock and embarrassing IOUs.
The movie is too beautiful to be described as an ordeal, but it is sufficiently intense and unyielding that when it is over, you may feel, along with awe, a measure of relief.
They are too poor; their immigration status is in question; they just can't sustain the logistical burden of taking on unyielding bureaucracies.
