Sentence examples for obdurate character from inspiring English sources

Given that Glencore's 34% stake in Xstrata would not be voted, Qatar's holding amounted to a blocking stake.Mr Glasenberg, an obdurate character, refused to budge, saying that he did not regard the tie-up as a "must do" deal anyway.

And one of the strangest things about this obdurate, thuggish character is that Mr. Maine gives him a sweetness that is as apparent as his boorish side.

Patrick's father was a soldier, and he came up with a character who was very obdurate, slow-thinking, stiff, granitic.

This is in contrast with, and "set off by" the character of "Lady Macbeth, whose obdurate strength of will and masculine firmness give her the ascendancy over her husband's faultering virtue.

As a character in Selma, LBJ performs the role of obdurate-cum-helpful ally, a function most white ally politicians in the 1960s (including LBJ himself much of the time) performed.

The insurgents remain obdurate.

Joyce, however, was creatively obdurate.

Very obdurate, these island dudes.

Students have proved just as obdurate.

"The lawyer alone is obdurate," Münsterberg wrote.

Joleon Lescott has been notably obdurate.