But on that morning it was the Union general who shocked the world with his ruthless and uncompromising terms.
A Victorian field guide, for example, describes Agrimonia in rather uncompromising terms: "Herbs with stipulate, pinnate, serrate leaves and terminal bracteate spine-like racemes of small yellow flowers".
Taylor was the first official figure to make it clear where responsibility for the tragedy lay, and did so in stark and uncompromising terms.
The one thing you could depend on when Pope John Paul II made one of his high-profile overseas trips was that he would hammer home in the most uncompromising terms Catholicism's opposition to abortion.
The brutal message of her "rose" charts of mortality, constructed using data from the Crimean war, was both informative and highly influential, showing in stark, uncompromising terms that the numbers of soldiers dying from disease and squalor far outweighed those dying from battle injuries.
You should be aware, if you are unfamiliar with the Flaming Lips' oeuvre, that although Coyne will maintain the band are "just normal guys", their former manager, Michele Vlasimsky, once set the record straight in uncompromising terms: "These were not normal guys from normal families - you're talking about freaks".
In June, after meeting Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, Mr. Blair met with the papal secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and accounts by Vatican officials said the cardinal laid out the church's objections to some of the Blair government's legislation in uncompromising terms.
To counterbalance these challenges, key Church authorities decided to emphasize the spiritual and doctrinal authority of the pope and Rome in stark and uncompromising terms.
In refusing to bargain -- except on his own uncompromising terms -- with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, he was in fact defying the professional politicians of the British government.
Heller has generally laid low since standing alongside Sandoval last week at a Las Vegas news conference, where he announced his opposition to the Senate bill in harsh, uncompromising terms.
Yep, while hip-hop is often characterized by its detractors as a vacuous music concerned only with chasing the trilogy of money, cars and promiscuous members of the opposite sex, when rappers get political they like to do so in fiery and uncompromising terms.
