| strident rhetoric | 0.92 | Anti-US rhetoric as strident as ever. | ||
| strident tone | 0.92 | Alvarez, in turn, chose a more strident tone. | ||
| strident critic | 0.79 | Australia has been a strident critic of both China and France over the testing issue. | ||
| strident nationalist | 0.66 | Could Lebed or some other strident nationalist make it happen? | ||
| strident criticism | 0.46 | But he was a crowd-pleaser with his strident criticisms. | ||
| strident nationalism | 0.46 | With his anti-American diatribes, Zhirinovsky has become well known for his strident nationalism. | ||
| strident opposition | 0.46 | Even more strident opposition has come from Minnesota. | ||
| strident call | 0.39 | During the war came the strident calls for patriotism, blood and vengeance. | ||
| strident voice | 0.39 | Critics complain that he has been straining for effect, his voice strident and his timing flat. | ||
| strident campaign | 0.26 | The disclosure comes after a strident campaign against homosexuals by President Robert Mugabe, an ally of Banana. | ||
| strident demonstration | 0.26 | And on Monday night, that question boiled over into a strident demonstration across Fifth Avenue from the Pierre, on the edge of Central Park. | ||
| strident language | 0.26 | The march also comes amid increasingly strident political language and symbols by the communist government. | ||
| strident opponent | 0.26 | Ottawa is a strident opponent of the US Helms-Burton law, which aims to punish non-US companies that do business in Cuba. |