Some of us still remember the scenes in the 1977 original movie in which Carrie Fisher's unflinching Princess Leia stands up to Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader, and later shows Han Solo and Luke Skywalker how to use a blaster.
Now that I'm an educator in that system, I've decided to stand unflinching when it comes to the real issues facing our children today, I've decided to be unafraid to question injustice, unafraid to take risks in the classroom — I am changed.
Essential to this public trust is a responsibility for lawmakers and management agencies to stand unflinching guard against the constant pressures, often insidious, to privatize access to public wildlife.
He wanted to reach over and brush it away, but she stood, unflinching, perhaps unaware.
(That particular Facebook content policy has stood unflinching for almost a decade).
CHICAGO — On a film soundstage here, a tense scene was unfolding, with the actor Lou Diamond Phillips, playing a rogue cop, holding a gun aimed at the head of another actor, who stood tall, unflinching, his face and frame thinner than in his glory days, but still handsome, his hair concealed under a tight-fitting black beret.
Even though their latest record, Cosmic Microwave Background was in departure in some respect from their previously unflinching methods, it still stands as monument of deep-room techno-terror.
Praising Hollande for his "unflinching stance" to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons as well as a strong stand against Syria's use of chemical weapons, Peres expressed confidence in France's support for peace and opposition to terrorism.
But they end up saying things like, "I'm afraid to tweet this": Is there not one senior academic, one Nobel Laureate, who will stand up and in unflinching language decry sexism and the support of sexism that we are currently seeing from so many leading figures?
The prominent American poet Ai, whose work — known for its raw power, jagged edges and unflinching examination of violence and despair — stood as a damning indictment of American society, died on March 20 in Stillwater, Okla.
