Sentence examples for strident from inspiring English sources

Yet this inclusive, winning style around the office always went hand-in-hand with strident, polemical writing.

Once upon a time not long ago Fine Gael leaders were even more strident in their defence of the Catholic church's "special position" within Irish life as drawn up in Éamon de Valera's 1937 constitution.

Confronted with this recent outpouring of anti-Thatcher sentiments, I am struck by the strident tones from "wronged" miners and other working people, and a marked absence of any mea culpa.

With MacKenzie at the helm, the paper not only regained its energy but became an agenda-setting paper renowned for its strident support for the blessed Margaret Thatcher and outrageous headlines that achieved iconic status: Freddie Starr ate my hamster, Up yours Delors, Gotcha! and It was the Sun wot won it.

Autocrats in Pyongyang have been strident in their criticism of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's film, which centres on a US plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un and is said to feature a scene in which the face of the "supreme leader" is melted off.

Persistent, detailed, passionate and sometimes politely menacing, the missives the Prince of Wales sends to Whitehall often coat strident demands for government action in self-deprecation and flashes of humour.

He spoke as the morning headliner at the Freedom Summit, a one-day meeting convened by Steve King, the firebrand Republican congressman for Iowa and talk radio host renowned for his strident views on topics such as immigration.

Full forgiveness is when the relationship after is different from the relationship before and that has not happened in South Africa yet While her father has been a powerful political figure for much of her life – from his strident anti-apartheid stance to his vocal criticism of the current South African President Jacob Zuma – publicly Mpho remains less politically outspoken.

Other sponsors including Coca-Cola also took a notably more strident tone.

Inevitably, strident voices on the far left and the far right are calling respectively for more state control or clampdowns on immigrants, but the truth is, the nearer we get to the elections, no one in the French political classes seems to know what to do with France.

At the semi-finals on Tuesday, the two 17-year-olds were greeted with boos from the 10,000-strong audience in Denmark, thought to be a response to Vladimir Putin's aggressive actions in Ukraine but also a statement against Russia's strident anti-gay legislation.