The system is not an obdurate one-man rule, but a balancing of power groups, including the military, government and internal security, all have different interests and policies.
This stasis need not be obdurate, there could be subtle oscillations in morphology (Lieberman et al. 1995; Eldredge et al. 2005), but overall net stability prevailed.
The Swiss have not been completely obdurate.
(Maybe the church shouldn't be so obdurate on condoms).
The E.U. is obdurate, too, not least because its negotiators fear that the U.K. is not in a position to reciprocate concessions, but will instead pocket them and demand more.
The time to insult him was in past years, when he was obdurate and brutish, not now, when he has made a journey beyond that and demonstrated considerable magnanimity.
We often comment, "How could Bronson have been so obdurate?" I regret not asking that question of my great-aunt Ruth, who was temporarily shipped east from Chicago as a child.
At the end of the process, they can declare that, despite all their high expectations, the deal is not good enough, and the obdurate EU has left them with no choice but to campaign for an "Out".
