The loudest roaring is coming from Daniel Bouton, the mulish chairman of Société Générale (SocGen), and Michel Pébereau, the bullish chairman of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP).
It is striking that, even after this, the "tough" IMF wants to ease up on budget cuts whereas the "soft" EU remains mulish about sticking to austerity.
Mr Bashir's inflammatory rhetoric and often mulish resistance to humanitarian pleading have made Sudan a pariah, at least in the West.
As Eritrea faces the challenges of making a nation out of a national movement, it is still to be seen whether its mulish and self-reliant people can rediscover the extraordinary inner strength they demonstrated as a fighting rebel army.
He apologised for his mulish handling of the issue by mumbling, somewhat incoherently: "Maybe I felt too strongly about getting all the wrong priorities out of the way so we can focus on the right things at once".In this section Still sick and gloomy, now rebellious Facing the voters End of the road for the Taliban?
The 83-year-old group can afford to let noisy secular rivals scrap with mulish ruling generals because its own front, the Freedom and Justice Party, along with some smaller partners, looks poised to sweep nearly half the seats in parliament's lower house.
Mr Boorman's agonising account of Toshiro Mifune's mulish misconduct during the making of "Hell in the Pacific" should be recommended reading for any director who ever thought he was stuck with a difficult star.
AFTER leading the Turkish Cypriots for over three decades, Rauf Denktash, the mulish president of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, is at last stepping down in favour of his determinedly pro-European rival, Mehmet Ali Talat.
Of the latter he wrote: He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood.
He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood.
