Outside Germany, she is seen as unbending.
Rights are not about civility or manners or being sensitive; they're about unbending individual freedoms.
France, he said, should be "flexible" over subsidies, but "unbending" in its demands for more regulation of market prices and for "community preference" (ie, favouring EU produce over imports).That might sound like give and take.
Auntie Mei did not understand their logic: Chanel's depraved; Paul's unbending.
We have marked the very corporate-like environment we work in – all straight lines, uniform spaces, impenetrable concrete, unbending steel – with signs of alternative voices, thoughts-in-the-making and issues up for debate.
These winds are whipped up, though, not by any want of retrenchment but by an unbending adhesion to the austerity dogma.
In narcissism, an inflated grandiosity is repeatedly punctured by an unbending reality.
Others say he is "utterly ruthless", has a "voracious" thirst for knowledge, but also an appetite for fixing the facts; that he always has an open mind, and yet also that he is an unbending ideologue.
As one commentator I spoke to yesterday argued, perhaps the best these two once proud, fundamentalist, and unbending parties can give us is a stable deal.
Both misremember past leaders as unbending ideologues: Margaret Thatcher here, Ronald Reagan in America.
In his Today show appearance, Cruz rejected the notion that he was an intransigent extremist whose unbending positions in the Senate had made him an enemy of compromise – the most glaring evidence of which, his critics say, being the partial shutdown of the federal government he helped precipitate in October 2013 with a profoundly feckless attempt to block the president's healthcare law.
