Both teams have had their chances but Algeria are undeniably the more obdurate of the two defences on show at the moment.
Instead an obdurate prime minister has spewed out incendiary rhetoric that sparked anger among the tens of thousands of mostly young people taking to the streets across the country to show solidarity with Taksim.
The third is reported to be one of the co-leaders of the weekend's demonstrations, the head of the National Front, Dr Karim Samjabi, who only last week publicly restated his refusal to take part in any government under what he described as the "illegal monarchy .Related items From the archive: The coming of an obdurate messiahFeb 3rd 1979The speedy revival of talks with the Shah was no surprise.
Angola and Congo have formed a joint company to exploit Congo's oil.But now there are signs that Angola is getting fed up with Mr Kabila's obdurate refusal to co-operate with his saviours.
THERE has been a good deal of discussion lately between journalists and political scientists concerning, on one side, political journalists' dogged ignorance of relevant findings in political science and, on the other side, political scientists' obdurate refusal to make their work accessible or practically useful.
It was he who adjusted it, or corralled it, to the needs of the obdurate, cranky, noisy Linotype machines which then printed almost everything in America.
These would punish Mr Kibaki's more obdurate ministers and backers, while sparing poorer Kenyans from the effects of general trade and aid sanctions.
He has provided the North with unconditional aid, but the communist regime there has remained obdurate.
Nonetheless, faced with Mr Chirac's pre-summit offensive, Mr Blair has been forced to adopt Wellington's tactics at Waterloo: the obdurate defence of a red line.
Despite his two-state utterance, Mr Netanyahu sounds as obdurate as ever.
One of the port's plans is therefore to build a new, better and closer railway yard.If you ask Mr Baker, this is where the problem becomes vintage Californian in its obdurate and litigious bureaucracy.
