And as a result, there was a real stridency, a need to distinguish himself.

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Last week, when John Rowe, Exelon's CEO, slammed the Chamber's "stridency against carbon legislation, " he was clearly casting his company as a green knight.

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Mexico, after the failed presidency of Vicente Fox, risks a lurch back to the populist stridency that took it down for much of the 20th century.

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But in political terms, the new stridency among senior British Muslims is probably the bare minimum of assertiveness they could show while keeping any credibility with their grassroots.

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The more they vent, the more their stridency softens.

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But Gore's stridency and class warfare rhetoric were off-key.

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That stridency may be pointless, even counter-productive.

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