Sentence examples for * obstinacy in from inspiring English sources

Their obstinacy in sticking to their customs, one could not deny it respect.

His obstinacy in the face of bleak odds has impressed, as has his tenacious hounding of the coalition government.

With persistent obstinacy in Congress, the greatest opportunity for progress, the thinking goes, lies in foreign affairs.

The donkey's occasional obstinacy in refusing work too heavy for it has become proverbial, but its equally proverbial stupidity is often a reaction to brutal treatment and neglect.

In December he offered Republicans a compromise on the deficit only to see them walk off and double down on their obstinacy in the House.

If historians were to seek out proof of unionist idiocy and obstinacy in the early Troubles they need only to point to moronic messages like that one.

Against this tendency, it is sustained an approach based on respecting the person and on the adequacy of the means to employ in order to avoid any form of therapeutic obstinacy which in any way can not include the assessment of the quality of the newborn's future life.

The distrust and obstinacy start in the streets.

(The company's obstinacy resulted in 28 liability suits filed by municipalities claiming that Glock is responsible for murders committed with its weapons; 11 suits remain).

That's the only way to explain the obstinacy demonstrated in facing this situation.

The recent UN world report on drugs shows that the obstinacy which, in the past, stymied every debate on policy liberalization has made way for a more tolerant attitude.