Sentence examples for obdurate in from inspiring English sources

First, to expect no favours; India's power brokers are ruthless and obdurate in cricket and otherwise.

Gunn, so obdurate in "Breaking Bad," is a more girlish presence here.

Flesh, bone, desire, consciousness — in almost every way, the farmers were different from him and therefore obdurate in their singleness and as capable of pleasure and misery as he.

Using increasingly stern language, diplomats from the United States have blamed Brazil for the collapse at Cancún, saying it was too obdurate in championing the demands of developing countries for an end to farm subsidies in developed countries.

So you can expect that record executives will be patient — which is to say, obdurate — in flogging the follow-up, "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" (A&M/Octone), which was released in May.

I never thought that I would reach this point but, if George Bush continues to be obdurate in his attitude towards global warming, I think I shall have to install air conditioning in my bedroom and spend the increasingly protracted summers in bed.

He also played significant roles both with the ball and as an obdurate tailender in the 2009 Ashes series win, and again in the drawn series in South Africa the following winter.

Convinced that independence for India was many decades away, he found an equally obdurate ally in London once Churchill came to power, in 1940.

Mehmet Ali Talat, a left-leaning Turkish Cypriot who favours the reunification of the island under the UN plan, has formed a government in coalition with Serdar Denktash, a more obdurate figure in the mould of his father, Rauf.

That experience has consisted of remarkable levels of social integration in places like the Atlanta church, new levels of intellectual honesty about the past in Natchitoches and, less happily, a persistence of obdurate patterns in Tar Heel and many other places as well.

They have the most obdurate defence in the world and if they have ceased to be as spontaneous in attack as they used to be in the days of David Campese on the wing, then they are consequently less prone to error.