With his slight frame and boyish looks, Brown may look like a soft touch, but there's a tough, unyielding obstinacy to him.
You could argue, I guess, that completely righteous smacking reinforces an important message about justice – punishment will be decisive and unyielding – but here you have to make damn sure you're right.
But two weeks away from the end-of-March deadline, it is unyielding conservatives in Washington, bolstered by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who are working hardest to torpedo the deal.
Gethin Jenkins, celebrating his 100th cap, and Richard Hibbard, tackling ferociously, were unyielding in the battle with the famed Argentinian scrummagers.
Students are told that if they want to succeed they must be like King Goujian, sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall that great accomplishments come only with sacrifice and unyielding purpose.
He acknowledges the difficulties that face the historian, but is cautious in his use of conjecture, deploying it always with a grace and lightness that gently prise meaning from otherwise incomplete and unyielding evidence.
But the news magazines all increased their news-stand print runs (four times in Time's case), and television in particular has been unyielding.
The news galvanised the hold that Israel's grizzled and unyielding leader seems to have over the Bush administration and much of policy-making opinion in the United States .There is no disagreement in this country on support for Israel," Senator Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, assured Mr Sharon next day.
Although the Central Bank this week raised one of its interest rates by a full six percentage points, rates remain below inflation, giving Argentines little reason to hold pesos.On the fiscal front the government needs to reduce subsidies and remain unyielding in the face of workers' demands for pay rises.
That can come from an unyielding focus on exams or from tight social cohesion.
The rigidity of the 1970s economies, where union power and indexed contracts meant wages were unyielding, only magnified the adverse effects of oil shocks.
