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unbending adjective adamant, durus, firm, fixed, hard, immobile, immovable, implacable, inflexible, intransigent, narrow-minded, obdurate, relentless, renitent, resistant, resolute, rigid, rigidus, stern, stiff, straight, straitlaced, strict, strong-minded, stubborn, unchangeable, uncompromising, unpliant, unyielding, willful See also: callous, draconian, firm, formal, immutable, implacable, inexorable, inflexible, insusceptible, intractable, ironclad, irreconcilable, obdurate, orthodox, parochial, pertinacious, precise, relentless, resolute, rigid, severe, strict, unalterable, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The eminent nineteenth-century Syrian legal scholar Ibn Abidin warned that any jurist who held unbendingly to the standard legal decisions of his school without regard to changing times and circumstances would necessarily obliterate fundamental rights and extensive benefits, bringing about harm far exceeding any good he might possibly achieve. Kate Mulgrew describes herself as a liberal Democrat but is, nonetheless, unbendingly pro-life. |
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