The more strident complain of de industrialization.

Some researchers judge to be non strident in English, based on measurements of its comparative amplitude, but to be strident in other languages (for example, in the African language Ewe, where it contrasts with non strident ).

For a grouping of sibilants and , the term strident is more common.

Strident calls for structural reforms mainly target labor markets, rather than product markets.

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The Arabic translation gives the statement a more strident tone and shows a subjective approach.

The tone of the commentaries has, of late, become more strident and filled with war rhetoric.

Strident rhetoric and a hegemon s disdain for the interests of smaller neighbors create only enmity, not harmony.

Since 1989, Liu wrote, the Chinese government has nurtured a strident nationalism to boost its own legitimacy.

Strident articles critical of the United States, Japan, and Taiwan appear with increasing frequency and receive ever more prominent placement.

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

Then Katavasov, in his loud strident voice, read his paper on the scientific work of the man whose jubilee it was.

And this, again this universal outreach is getting subdued in the strident use of religion abuse of religion for nefarious gains.

There are no doubt some among the demonstrators who would like Obama to be more strident in his support of their aims.

Thus, the strident calls to stop the Park 51 project are as serious a threat to freedom as an outright legal ban.

Mixed signals from competing power centers don t help nor does the recurring contrast between Iranian officials usually strident public pronouncements and often moderate private discourse.

But the fact that those dictators suppressed democracy in their country and suppressed Islamic groups in their country actually made the Islamists much more strident.

The strident and damaging dogmatism of fundamentalists of every stripe has a common feature a truculent sense of grievance, rooted in fear and resentment of modernity.

This is inevitable, because that rupture is being fueled by the simple acknowledgement that responsible governments must place national interests ahead of nostalgia, grandstanding rhetoric, and strident ideology.

By last May, the share had declined to half astoundingly low for some of the world s most enthusiastic soccer fans with small but strident protests persisting across the country.

Potsdam or Platts and Friedrichshafen, those main city centers and where the women... That's a lot more strident and the women are definitely the focus of the male gaze.

Strident and self absorbed by narrow partisanship, administration officials have actually betrayed the conservative ideological cause, dismantling the tried and tested institutional foundations of America's economic prosperity and global security.

He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self education, political participation and the abolition of censorship.

In a situation of confusion and uncertainty, and with no solution in sight, the reactionary ultra rightists and neo fascists are getting stronger politically and becoming more vocal and strident.

More neighboring states have more claims to more parts of the South China Sea and tend to push those claims with more strident nationalism than is the case with any comparable body of water.

The repulsive SVP, who ve used what the Financial Times called strident populism to target foreigners of all kinds in Switzerland as criminals, benefit cheats or worse, kicked off the campaign with the poster opposite Stop!

And in place of that, what happens is that Islamism grows as an ideology which is authoritarian, which is quite strident, which is quite anti Western, and which wants to shape society based on a utopian vision.

Reassuringly, it is galvanizing the conscience of humankind to resist and desist from inhuman conduct, whilst putting in place a global social safety net for the poor, the weak and the handicapped in a world of strident competition.

I am not at all sure that we will do better than our forebears in the 1950s years of self imposed political correctness have resulted in muddled, strident and obtuse ways of approaching (or is it avoiding?) the world.

Indeed, in his Song of the Pelagian Heresy he becomes quite strident, describing how the Bishop of Auxerre, with his stout Episcopal staff So thoroughly thwacked and banged The heretics all, both short and tall They rather had been hanged .

But Bush, following the terrorist attacks of 2001, turned his back on conservatism. He sought to radically reinvent the Middle East, not only by overthrowing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein s regime in Iraq, but also through his strident calls for democratization.

I am not at all sure that we will do better than our forebears in the 1950s years of self imposed political correctness have resulted in muddled, strident and obtuse ways of approaching (or is it avoiding?) the world. I should say here that I consider this piece primarily a self critique but I know, too, that though the universe of progressives'' I am addressing is not infinite, it is larger than one.