How To Use Bloody-minded In A Sentence
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For a man whose playing career was characterised by dogged resilience and bloody-minded determination, the manager cuts a very different figure.
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The prime minister would, it is said, have taken the plunge had it not been for the bloody-minded insistence of his chancellor in sticking to the Treasury's five tests.
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He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness.
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The first was the Imperium's bloody-minded refusal to die beneath the weight of heresy, secession, alien aggres?sion and daemonancy.
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Impatient, stupid and bloody-minded drivers like this should be made to walk everywhere, so that we smaller fish can cross the road at designated crossings without being in fear of our lives.
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Indeed, everyone can cite cases of knavish behaviour – the bloody-minded GP receptionist, a sullen council jobsworth or disobliging clock-watchers shutting down switchboards at 4. 55pm, regardless.
Loyal, public service merits more than this cold trashing
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But almost two hours, the drizzle isn't letting up, the cold is starting to bite, and a handful of bloody-minded sheep are refusing to respect the newly erected electric fence.
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‘I think it’s called all-American bloody-mindedness,’ I said, a comment which elicited the smallest of laughs from Hughes.
A Special Relationship
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Because thepolice were involved in the kidnapping disaster, and becausethe man in charge, Lawson, was subsequently imprisonedfor murder (a previous case of Karen's, though I don't think that this has been recorded in a book), and because he's bloody-minded and arrogant, Grant is keen to keep the police out of it this time round.
April 2009
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That here is an athlete of such power, skill and bloody-minded determination that victory is accepted quietly, as if expected, and defeat like a plague on his house.
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It's a good team up in York and it would be pretty bloody-minded for the new tenant not to give them a good chance.
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The more people try to stop me, the more I want to do it, just to be bloody-minded.
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And in truth, it wasn't difficult to cite examples of short-sightedness, bloody-mindedness, and cynical manipulation of memberships.
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It was only a bloody-minded determination by the media to wrong-foot the Prince that gave this humorous aside even the appearance of controversy.
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The show is bloody-minded, bizarre and one-off original.
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Nothing is more guaranteed to put off prospective teachers and to undermine the government's efforts to boost the profession than the annual Easter spectacle of bloody-minded, unrepresentative hooligans.
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Even if you bid me good riddance and send me packing; if you wish I was dead as a doornail; if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded, or a blinking idiot, Then -- by jove!
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Strange WordFellows -- Sarah Palin & William Shakespeare
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He had a reputation for being bloody-minded and difficult.
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Meanwhile, he wages a low-level campaign of civil disobedience in the tax office where he works, destroying evidence of fraud - more, it seems, out of bloody-minded laziness than idealism.
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I can't say what effects it had, because I didn't end up taking the stuff - in the end I'm too independent and bloody-minded to to want to have my thoughts and moods governed or ameliorated by a drug.
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Every commercial breakthrough or rich, melodic offering has given way to a more bloody-minded - or just bloody - follow-up.
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Discipline a key factor in this, and all the more important because other teams were clearly going to struggle for tries against such a bloody-minded defence.
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People of this sign have real difficulty fitting into the established order and have a bloody-minded will of their own.
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Everybody else accepts the decision. Why must you be so bloody-minded?
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With a smouldering disdain which could quickly turn to bloody-mindedness, the rams kept their composure, even though the odd knobbly bits on their foreheads were all that remained of horns and pride.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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It's so relaxing to be in a world where things go as you want them to - real life today is so very bloody-minded.
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bloody-minded tyrants
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And all of them could be bloody-minded and contrary, helping you one minute but ignoring you the next.
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The real credit to the team was not just the sheer bloody-minded defence, but the fact it was achieved by so many second-string players in a squad short of depth.
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What the amateur sheep-owner discovers is that lambs are bloody-minded, perverse, suicidal, self-destructive, and infuriating.
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Proud, reactionary, occasionally intimidating, fiercely independent, bloody-minded perhaps, but not sanguine.
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The British were considered more bloody-minded, firing on the downroll into the enemy ship while the French supposedly fired on the uproll, into the rigging to dismande but not kill the enemy.
John Paul Jones
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The network -- reliably thought to be based in Waziristan in Pakistan -- has much of the border regions of Af-Pak tied up, and made a true art form out of bloody-minded thuggery, extortion, murder, and bastardry.
Virginia M. Moncrieff: Clear and Present Danger: The Haqqani Network
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And all of them could be bloody-minded and contrary, helping you one minute but ignoring you the next.
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In the name of customer care, modern companies now set up an obstacle course only the most determined, bloody-minded and technically-blessed customer will get through.
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unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders
