For the purposes of this series, I am defining fundamentalists as those who control children under the guise of religion: through rigid discipline, uncompromising rules, and heavy gate-keeping so that participation in a certain community is conditional upon conduct.
Like many others in President Khatami's inner circle, Mr. Hajjarian was himself once an supporter of uncompromising Islamic rule, and thus came to be seen by the hard-liners as an apostate.
However, how uncompromising should rules be? When should they be set up? When should they change?
But Bourn is looking for big money, perhaps as much as $100 million in a multiyear deal, and is represented by the uncompromising Scott Boras, so rule the Mets out.
We had a terrific and uncompromising lecturer who ruled the classroom with an iron fist, and she would accept citations in essays from only one periodical: Playboy.
Goodman's conventionalism is pervasive and uncompromising: even the rules of perspective in the representation of space, he claims, are conventionally established and provide only a relative i.e., relative to culturally established conceptual schemata standard of fidelity (1976, 10 19).
The FIFA rule is uncompromising: A deliberate foul by the last defender to prevent a goal-scoring situation must be followed by a red card.
But there are rules – and uncompromising positions – that have a force of their own and may well propel the drama forward.
Playing by her rules, the uncompromising result is a brutally straightforward return to normalcy, with southern accents, country karma and a decidedly human touch.
When I asked her whether the weak world economy was a reason to delay tougher rules, she was uncompromising, repeating her point twice for emphasis: "It's always the wrong time here.
FIFA, soccer's governing body, is uncompromising when it comes to this rule.
