Sentence examples for without relenting from inspiring English sources

He had a round face like a lollipop, very dark skin, a little tuft of hair, brilliantly white teeth, and a strong body with the muscle equally distributed and the limbs seeming to be of equal length — resembling a tough, lumbering, earth-loving animal, a badger, perhaps, that would fight silently and without relenting if cornered.

"His attitude was that 'I've got to decide what's right for myself and go at it without relenting, no matter who is standing in the way.' " Mr. Celley says Senator McCain has carried that attitude with him in other fights, from overhauling campaign finance to federal anti-tobacco legislation to this year's budget battle, in which the Arizona Republican has denounced pork-barrel spending.

They were not going to be distracted by a Lenny Bruce type from a sunny canyon, a grifter with a good lawyer, and they took him on without relenting.

He expressed a less charitable view, however, in private letters to his wife after his mother's death: "My sadness was mixed with incredulity that any mother could have been so hard and cruel towards her eldest son for so many years and yet so demanding at the end without relenting a scrap.

"We should be pushing as hard as we can without relenting at all," Biden said.

In August, with hundreds of thousands of supporters jamming the streets of New Delhi, he went 12 days without food, relenting only when Parliament reluctantly agreed to take up his anticorruption bill.

Džeko can remember only too well the heavy guns that fired without relent from the hilltops that surround the stadium.

The president signed the stopgap bill to bring the nation's longest-ever government shutdown to an end late last month, relenting temporarily without getting any of the border-wall money he shut down the government to obtain.

The F.B.I. and Secret Service agents were pushier, but even they are frozen out in such circumstances, and they eventually relented without so much as a screech of the tires.

But he remained hopeful that they could be persuaded to relent without resorting to force-feeding.

Garcia tried to convince the funeral home to relent, without success.