Hardnosed?

I'm a little rusty yet.

A beaker head with a God complex?

he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers

He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers

I'll be a dadblamed polecat... if you aren't about as ornery a specimen as ever I clapped my eyes on.

And We turned the city upside down , and rained on them stones of hardened lava .

And We turned the township upside down and rained upon them stones of heated clay .

and We turned it uppermost nethermost and rained on it stones of baked clay .

And We made the upside there of downwards , and We rained on them stones of baked clay .

And We turned ( the towns of Sodom in Palestine ) upside down and rained down on them stones of baked clay .

And We turned it upside down , and rained down upon them stones of baked clay .

and turned the land upside down , and rained down stones of baked clay .

And We utterly confounded them , and We rained upon them stones of heated clay .

and We made its topmost part its nethermost , and rained on them stones of shale .

We laid it ( the city ) upside down and rained stones of baked clay upon them .

And We made the highest part of the city its lowest and rained upon them stones of hard clay .

We turned the town upside down and showered on them lumps of baked clay .

Thus did We turn it upside down , and rained down upon them stones of what had been decreed .

We turned the town upside down and rained upon them stones of clay .

And We turned ( the cities ) upside down , and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay .

Beer is basically liquid bread, or bread is solid beer.

The philosophy of sumud is rooted in Palestinians implacable belief in the righteousness of their cause and the justness of their methods.

Shame on the US if it squanders this extraordinary chance by digging in its heels at the upcoming Strategic and Economic dialogue.

By flouting the will of the international community and adopting an uncompromising position, Azerbaijan is only ensuring the continued suffering of the civilian population and creating extreme hardships for all peoples of the region.

Mr. Clerides claims that the Turkish Cypriot side is intransigent and cites the Secretary General apos s report of 30 May 1994 as evidence (see S 1994 629).

80. In order to be universally applicable, training courses must be designed with flexibility and without imposing a single rigid focus or approach on the trainers.

51. To be universally useful, training courses must be designed in such a way as to facilitate their flexible use, without imposing a single rigid focus or approach on the trainers.

The philosophy of sumud is rooted in Palestinians implacable belief in the righteousness of their cause and the justness of their methods. It operates both passively and actively in Palestinian culture, demanding stubbornness and tolerating ruthlessness, violence, and duplicity.