Now, it has this strident connotation, you know, a little bit man-hating maybe or whatever.
She said the mother also expressed some rather strident views about the U.S. government.
It was striking how strident these leaders were about what needs to be done.
The strident rhetoric in ACC could further divide the electorate and the government on climate change.
But T-mobile has now taken on a more strident tone in its attitude to new masts.
And with recalcitrant Republicans vocal in their opposition, the Democrats, too, became more strident.
"He hasn't appeared that strident in going after health care companies, per se, " Funtleyder says.
But whatever Mr Adams's private feelings, he cannot afford a strident denunciation of the Irish government.
With plenty to argue about there are three reasons why the arguments are becoming more strident.
Because she is uncomfortable with the encounter she comes across as strident, even belligerent.
This is the result of increasingly strident West German opposition to replacement of the obsolescing Lance.
The Belarussian president's strident anti-western language does not chime with Mr Putin's tough but friendly approach.
An increasingly strident language movement is demanding that the Berber tongue, Tamarzight, be taught in schools.
Soon that's all the community may have left--the strident echo of a half-remembered Portuguese culture.
As Sheikh Hasina looks ever more strident, people may start tiptoeing away from her.
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The Independent described Sir Mick as being "in good voice" and "impressively strident" in the opening song.
Mr. CLEMONS: Representative Tom Tancredo has, perhaps, the most strident position of the Republican candidates on immigration.
The language in Ballmer's latest letter was markedly more strident than in his first letter to the Yahoo!
So the answer was not strident or confrontational, but an attempt to sound unthreatening, a little humble even.
When he claimed that the final result was invalid, his tone was too strident even for many Democrats.
All of which makes Mr Lee's strident warning, as the head of South Korea's most successful company, more puzzling.
What this means is that this is not just a few strident ladies griping about their lot in life.
Public opposition has been strident, and so far most telcos have backed down.
And she has a strident personality that makes it hard for her to reach out beyond her core constituency.
Her strident certainties on Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood helped to open public figures' private lives to public inspection.
It should not take a strident Mayor to rival a high-profile teacher strike in order to replace non-performing teachers.
Latin America's most strident populist governments, led by Venezuela and Argentina, said that they would not recognise Mr Franco.
Mr. Kozodoy identified another source of the left's strident animus for Mr. Podhoretz.
Whether the Americans become more strident depends on how fast the surplus rises.
That's why liberals' increasingly strident insistence that Obama abandon bipartisan outreach is terrible advice for the president and the nation.
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