It should not take a strident Mayor to rival a high-profile teacher strike in order to replace non-performing teachers.
All of a sudden, however, he springs on her a challenge with the strident voice of a man of huge contradictions, courteous in one instant, cruel in the next.
The tableau of Britain at the opening ceremony included suffragettes, hundreds of dancing nurses, a strident Mary Poppins banishing multiple villains and even a shot of the first lesbian kiss aired on prime-time television.
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While Ryan was an atheist and a strident capitalist in the vein of John Galt, Comstock is a religious figure and an ultra-nationalist.
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Britain's then Prime Minister Tony Blair was a strident proponent of the argument, telling UK lawmakers that Hussein could launch a range of WMDs within 45 minutes.
Researchers in the field fear, though, that despite being much smaller than existing, inadvertent changes, their experiments will nevertheless become a focus for strident opposition unless there is a clear and respectable system of regulation.
But whatever Mr Adams's private feelings, he cannot afford a strident denunciation of the Irish government.
Soon that's all the community may have left--the strident echo of a half-remembered Portuguese culture.
And she has a strident personality that makes it hard for her to reach out beyond her core constituency.
Biden voted for the Iraq war resolution in October 2002 but quickly became a strident critic of the Bush administration's handling of the conflict.
Already, Mr Sharif's critics are saying that an autocratic regime is in the making, unrestrained by a strident chief justice or an awkward-minded president.
This week Geert Wilders, a strident anti-Muslim Dutch politician, was denied entry into Britain where he intended to screen his film, Fitna, a nasty rant against Islam.
He was a strident critic of the Bush administration, although he accepted Justice Department aid when he was sued by former Cleveland Councilman Michael Socha for libel and defamation.
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But this brought a strident response from the credit card industry in January, which argued that only 8% of customers were offered an unsolicited increase in their credit limit in 2009.
But the ANC's leaders are probably strong enough to resist firebrands such as Julius Malema, the leader of the party's Youth League and a strident supporter of Mr Zuma, and so should be able to keep the party together for now.
On his way up the political pole he clashed with Margaret Thatcher over (among many things) industrial policy and opposition to Europe, upset the generals over defence cuts, and appalled the Left with a strident campaign against the CND anti-nuclear group.
But T-mobile has now taken on a more strident tone in its attitude to new masts.
What this means is that this is not just a few strident ladies griping about their lot in life.
Mr Osborne was also able to reach a compromise between the Lib Dem demand for a sharp rise in capital-gains tax and the strident opposition among many Tories to such a move.
Their conclusion may be a little too strident and upbeat, but at least they know they've got something to say.
This new Russia, strident but erratic, requires a subtler approach than either the straightforward rivalry of Soviet times or the handouts and advice (not always very helpful) offered to Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.
Now, it has this strident connotation, you know, a little bit man-hating maybe or whatever.
The taped show, which was broadcast on the Oprah Winfrey Network and on the Internet, marked the end of a dozen years of strident denials from the 41-year-old Mr. Armstrong, who faced several doping scandals during his career but had, until last summer, escaped punishment from antidoping authorities.
Shigeru Ishiba, an influential LDP lawmaker, says Mr Tanigaki may be sounding strident because he wants to bring on a general election before his term as party leader ends in September.
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Or, will the popular program succumb to pressure from strident voices who insist that obesity is a public health emergency that can only be solved by expanding the role of government, limiting consumer choice, and demanding that regulators work against, rather than with, the food industry.
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In a homily a year after Mr. Kirchner assumed office in 2003, the new pope assailed "exhibitionism and strident announcements" that he said characterized Argentine public life, in what was perceived as a thinly veiled critique of Mr. Kirchner.
And that's why I think you're going to see more strident language as they go one on one in a debate in California tonight.
The opposition United Democratic Party, through its newspaper Amandala has been silent about the Belize Telecom controversy and strident in its attacks on Godfrey, who owns a bank that competes with Ashcroft's Belize Bank.
So the answer was not strident or confrontational, but an attempt to sound unthreatening, a little humble even.
The fact is that this congressman from the smog capital of North America has a lot of clout in Washington and the Administration has been placed in a difficult position by his very public, very strident stance.
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