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Grassley affably but unbendingly explained to her that there would be no agreement without agriculture.

Unlike other Rasta groups, such as TTI and EWF, the Boboshanti, arguably the most conservative wing of Rastafari, unbendingly rule that scalp and facial hairs should not be cut, but kept in dreadlocks.

A fear of an unbendingly hostile outside world was also needed to "sustain the power concentration, top-down command of socioeconomic and cultural lives, mass mobilization and extraction, censoring of information, total obedience and elimination of opposition and critics, atomization of the society with the state as the only internal organization, harsh dictatorship and brutal use of force, and endless sacrifices of human rights and human life."

In person, Martin-Green is a far cry from her character Michael Burnham, a human who was raised as a Vulcan, rendering her prone to the more monolithic of Vulcan traits - logical, rational and unbendingly stoic.

Most important, while "not unbendingly opposed to government," "they are worried about overspending and taxes" and hence willing to back the GOP.

"Time will be wasted and the presidential vacuum will continue if parties continue to stick unbendingly to their opinions," he said.

This is a country where "You snooze, you lose" is the political mantra of the masses, unbendingly.

Sometimes when you are faced with an all-powerful Goliath with no reason to listen, there's nothing to do but annoy Goliath, impeccably politely but unbendingly, until he listens.

To stick with the policy unbendingly, is to make the same mistake of policy stubbornness that led India to its present predicament."

He had not only described Khan as "the most credible, supremely patriotic, unbendingly honest and upright political leader of Pakistan, but had also went on to remind Musharaf of his own statement of August 2004, in which the former President had revealed Khan as his preferred prime ministerial candidate.