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But in this age of caving in to strident minority groups, it's nice to see that occasionally common sense can reign supreme.

CNN, meanwhile, continues to lose out to its more strident rivals, in prime time at least.

He was known as "The Hammer" for his tough approach to marshalling votes and his strident advocacy for conservative positions.

A college classmate of mine wrote me a couple weeks ago and said she thought I was a little strident.

He remembered that strident bell and his leap for the control panel. His frenzied fumbling as he strapped himself into the seat.

A large North American owl (Strix varia) having barred, brownish plumage across the breast, a streaked belly, and a strident, hooting cry.

In an unusually strident reaction from a business, Lavasa said in a statement that the ministry acted "without jurisdiction. "

The noise rose higher and higher, and the phantom pulsed with a strident green light that smote his eyes, making them water.

Yet the strident nature of the revelations will leave many without their bodies.

It sat out a by-election May 16 that more strident opposition parties had portrayed as a de facto referendum on faster democratic reforms.

The adoption by some Salafist broadcasters of a strident, aggressive tone against Shia and Christian minorities has alarmed authorities.

In unusually strident language, Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, said it would be "absolutely wrong" to free him.

Next to it, I noticed the line of hemp, grapeseed, red palm and canola oils, all smartly packaged, all making strident health claims.

The top Chinese leadership will also change next year, which could well see Chinese foreign policy take on a more strident tone.

IN THE past few weeks American and European officials have been strident: Kosovo should not be partitioned. Who said it should be?

But the re-emergence of a spectre from the darkest period of modern history argues for a different, indeed strident, response.

However, the talks do indicate the value of activism by hedge funds or any other strident investor.

In belittling conspicuous consumption, I may be a little too strident, but there's a reason.

Some of the comments on Chinese Internet boards have been unusually strident .

But for all the ACFTU's propaganda, few expect it to emerge as a strident new champion of workers' rights.

If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress.

The man who has made headlines in recent years for his strident bearish call on China has run out of stuff to short.

Republicans are even more strident in their opposition to a more powerful Fed.

Aiming to win the supermajority that would have eased this task, Mr Erdogan embraced a strident anti-Kurdish tone on the campaign trail.

At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away.

"They've become very truculent, sometimes strident, sometimes arrogant, always difficult, " he says of recent Chinese diplomacy.

Isn't it amazing that you say the mildest thing against religion, it's automatically strident ? You've ever noticed that?

Yet in Europe, opposition to GM food appears as strong as ever, despite increasingly strident scientific dissent.

The toughest obstacle to improving the worst is the strident opposition of the teachers' unions to meritocracy .

India is clearly taking a more strident approach in its engagement with China.

Mr. Noda's more strident rhetoric did little to convince investors that Japan has the firepower to stop the yen's ascent.

Armed with Olan's identity, Fortuna began making a strident return to the criminal underworld.

In the 45-minute telephone interview Thursday night, Ms. Stone was at first strident and then contrite about her remarks.

Bitches are big, tall, strong, large, loud, brash, harsh, awkward, clumsy, sprawling, strident, ugly.

Enthusiasts have always touted Linux as the best operating system, and they've become more strident and shrill since Vista's launch.

Some writers have suggested that Egypt's strident rhetoric has hampered the spirit of co-operation between Nile states.

City , where the population concentrated in , the conflict between the people's activities and entironment becomes more strident.

"The China Dream" does not represent government policy, which has been far less strident about the nation's goals.

He pushed sweeping socio-economic initiatives and strident ideological campaigns, often with disastrous results.

The way that the song ends, with repeated screams from Yorke, after a very strident guitar led interlude.

I'm sympathetic to that view, but I think it's unnecessarily strident.

Mrs Bracegirdle passes on. Bilbo's ears are assailed by a familiar strident voice.

There are western misconceptions that the Chinese were only capable of displaying strident nationalism.

blatant radios; a clamorous uproar; strident demands; a vociferous mob.

Asked why his show is not more strident, Mr Huckabee replies that people want to relax at the weekend.

In a flurry and strident voices often make others feel nervous.

The language in Ballmer's latest letter was markedly more strident than in his first letter to the Yahoo! board, dated Jan.

Too strident support for Mr Ma could actually encourage some Taiwanese to vote the other way.

He has, as the world and this newspaper wanted, taken a less strident tone in dealing with friends and rivals alike.

Larry's strident voice was difficult to listen to for more than five minutes.

NARRATOR: Determined, and some said strident, she would revolutionize the economy.

The more she emotes, the less he listens, and the less he listens, the more strident and emotive she becomes.

The tone of Attorney General Shutleff's subsequent Tweets seem strident and unprofessional.

As in America, the most strident opposition to the EU's deal with Korea has come from the car industry, and for much the same reasons.

The strident call of a crane or goose.

Denunciations will only grow more strident.

Those games saw a previously strident Arsenal pick up only one point.

But some say India's voice has become more strident and highhanded of late, perhaps in reaction to China's growing influence.

In the final chapter, however, he adopts a far more strident voice.

And what makes the situation so volatile is that those forces are increasingly strident and increasingly invested with legal sanction.

The Okinawans, however, will do their best to keep their strident opposition to the base in the public eye.

Its vowels include plain pharyngealised strident and breathy and they carry four tones.

His strident voice rang through the house.

People are put off by her strident voice .

On some issues, such as Tibet and Taiwan, official Chinese policy and rhetoric remain strident and unyielding.

MOORE: I would call the tone strident, if you needed to find a word, not aggressive but insistent.

AT every backward and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which resembled a cry of rage

a strident voice. Something clamorous is both vociferous and sustained