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Meanings of unyielding in English
Stubbornly unyielding.
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Examples for "persistent"
Examples for "persistent"
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There are two new categories this year; original property and persistent game.
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The main outcome measure was the number of days with persistent cough.
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However, early reports suggest that the roof collapsed under persistent heavy rains.
4
Metal pollution of aquatic habitats is a major and persistent environmental problem.
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However, certain viruses can subvert the immune response to establish persistent infections.
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Second, past reforms reveal the critical role of dogged and personal leadership.
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However, they were left exhausted by the New Zealand team's dogged defence.
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The young tennis player had been dogged by injury in recent years.
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Certainly, though, through his dogged determination, Giuliani has broken new scientific ground.
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However, its conversion to a medical centre has been dogged by controversy.
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S: And most surely he is tenacious in the love of wealth.
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Thereafter he was to trust the silent and tenacious general through everything.
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The Latin race has never been tenacious either in politics or commerce.
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None of the animals of the Phoca genus are tenacious of life.
5
The cause of denominationalism is the tenacious clinging to faith and doctrines.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fans gather to watch 'dour German second division football'.
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The opening quarter-hour was dour with neither side taking a dominant role.
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A dour deduction that Hamish reached, all by himself, just hours ago.
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And you seem... well, somewhat more dour than I've seen you before.
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The clinic was located in a dour Victorian hospital in central London.
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The duke, however, was pertinacious; he could not give up the subject.
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Defeated by the pertinacious insects, he rushed howling away through the forest.
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The pertinacious opposition of these men inflamed to anger Moore and Thomas.
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The greater number were pertinacious thieves, and addicted besides to many vices.
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I was pertinacious, and would accept such favours on no other terms.
Usage of unyielding in English
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The cold affected the going at once; it was slow and unyielding.
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But is our unyielding desire for approval and attention really harming anyone?
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Hans shrunk a bit at Harpal's tone and unyielding choice of words.
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She crossed her arms and made sure to appear stern and unyielding.
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In France, again, the objects of the attack were inelastic and unyielding.
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Summer in Baltimore is its own unyielding argument, its own critical mass.
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Dillon's expression was hard, unyielding, and his tone smacked of unpleasant reality.
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She softened her words, but her voice was as unyielding as steel.
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She looked at him then; her beautiful eyes were hard and unyielding.
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Somewhere behind me I hear the unyielding tock of a wall clock.
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He could not accept that part of her, so bloodthirsty and unyielding.
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For several minutes she surged and tugged upon the unyielding metal strand.
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Another wall, huge and unyielding; two walls actually, closing with him between.
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Andrew Jackson was by nature one of the most unyielding of men.
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His theoretical supremacy was thus limited by the unyielding facts of geography.
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At twenty-five one cannot be unyielding in one's avoidance of the sex.
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United Kingdom
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