And journalists, watching as chips of the stoic walls began crumbling, were under unmanageable pressure to produce to keep their jobs.
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The stoic, steely-eyed religious leader was exiled from Iran in 1964 but continued to denounce the shah as a corrupt dictator and Washington's puppet.
AD, Ulpian was expounding Roman law as a system based on the Stoic idea that we are all born free and equal, that slavery is against nature, and that all people, including slaves, possess a dignity that can be vindicated in legal proceedings.
He has always been the most stoic of ballplayers, never crushed by bad breaks or down about even the toughest losses.
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Among other interesting rankings of the countries around the world in 2012, there is the Gallop poll that officially labels Ukraine as one of the most stoic and reserved nations of them all.
This is why the accidental genius of Charles Dickens is to have made, of Ebenezer Scrooge, the only character in the story who has any personality to him and the one whose stoic attempt at a futile resistance is invoked under the breath more than most people care to admit.
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The picture they paint is of stoic defiance in the face of overwhelming odds.
Barcelona's efforts to become the first team to retain the Champions League trophy, meanwhile, ended in frustration in the face of a sensationally stoic defensive show from the Italians.
Here I had been teaching these young people about the slow erosion of our financial and economic underpinnings, each year turning more and more cynical and stoic at the same time, all without encouraging them to go out and make a difference in an optimistic way or offering solutions.
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While much of her work graphically depicts her physical suffering (a famous canvas shows Frida as a bleeding deer shot with arrows), the letters reveal her stoic side.
They want to play the next play whatever the consequences, they are stoic warriors.
Iranians seem stoic, but the pressures of urban life take their toll.
The trio are all so stoic, cool even about their experiences.
"While the British tend to be quite stoic, other nationalities might be more concerned, " he said.
"You get everything from stoic, staring into the sky ... to people breaking down and crying, they're just so moved, " he said.
Spock, in the film, retains the traits of the archetypal Vulcan, adhering to logic with every conclusion and inference, governing his emotional impulses with stoic alignment and unwilling to break even the most minute rule.
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But we do think that the public response to his self-control shows how poorly Stoic qualities can go over in our times: a philosophy built on emotional control seems strange in the age of over-sharing.
The president sat with his body tensed, one hand gripping the side of his chair, the other clutching his chin, like a stoic enduring punishment.
And I didn't know they were referring to myself or David, and they said what had - the allegations that had been made against the governor, and we all just very stoic at that time, just in disbelief.
Taking the lead from the prototypical Duke of Wellington, this model of stoic self-control was then rolled out from top to bottom of society.
The mood among the workers I talk to is worried, if stoic, unwilling to contemplate exactly what it would mean to lose their job.
Mr. MELOY: Just instead of writing the sort of, really, realist kind of stoic, creative non-fiction, I just started using things outside of my experience, entirely outside of my setting in history.
While much of his time as Emperor was spent in battle, Marcus made a major impact on the study of philosophy by establishing four Chairs of Philosophy in Athens, one for each of the principal philosophical traditions (Platonic, Aristotelian, Stoic, and Epicurean).
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Frustrated by their inability to break free of this stranglehold, Gaza's leaders are showing signs of shedding their stoic discipline, which has generally, since the war ended in January last year, stopped Hamas people from firing home-made rockets into Israel.
He sounded almost stoic as he watched his own belongings escape from the lower level of his home.
The big difference is that Jordan and Ascher know that true stoic understatement is heroic it contains emotion rather than covering for its absence.
Pressures on the NHS could grow, he added, because the "baby boomer" generation now approaching retirement expected more from the health service than their parents, who were "incredibly stoic".
Mr Bailey said Dunn was "very stoic" when talking about his time as a PoW during the war.
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