Sentence examples for as obstinacy from inspiring English sources

The persistence identified in the literature (Machado and Espinha 2005; Mizumoto et al. 2008) appeared as obstinacy and tenacity in interviews and highlighted by all owner-managers still in activity (EA, EB and EC) as a key to the survival and growth.

Perhaps this is just Mr. Boehner's opening public statement leading to closed door negotiations, but Mr. Boehner's version of conciliation is basically the same as Republican obstinacy.

So, yes, though all that's feral disheartens and demoralises him, he will put on a feral disposition in an act that is a sort of obstinacy against himself as well as Antonio.

Darwin used the word instinct in a number of different ways to refer to what impels a bird to breed; to a disposition, such as courage or obstinacy in a dog; to selectively bred patterns of behaviour such as the tumbling movements of tumbler pigeons; to feelings such as sympathy in people; and to stereotyped actions such as those employed by honeybees when constructing the cells of a honeycomb.

He interpreted my obstinacy as a great failure on both our parts, but mostly on mine.

"I believe the Turkish side and the Turkish-Cypriot side won't show once again the same obstinacy as they did in the past," said Christos Protopappas, a government spokesman.

It wasn't so much an expression of disbelief in Hatto's existence as it was obstinacy from live-performance purists, who argue that recordings are an unreliable measure of any musician's true qualities, given the manipulations permitted by studio technology.

Ms Merkel, who detects in such a notion an assault on the ECB's independence, will have none of this.Mr Steinmeier, who is under pressure from the SPD to demonstrate some economic leadership before the election, has now seized on Ms Merkel's obstinacy as an opportunity.

Yet, Congressional Republicans have shown unwavering obstinacy, as they stonewall and slow-walk efforts to get to the bottom of #TrumpRussia.

He gives Szpilman elements of vanity and weakness as well as a persevering obstinacy.

"A prisoner... discovers the impossibility of his escape, as well when he considers the obstinacy of the gaoler, as the walls and bars with which he is surrounded," David Hume wrote in 1748, "and, in all attempts for his freedom, chooses rather to work upon the stone and iron of the one, than upon the inflexible nature of the other".