Sentence examples for obstinacy in from inspiring English sources

Their obstinacy in sticking to their customs, one could not deny it respect.

His obstinacy in the face of bleak odds has impressed, as has his tenacious hounding of the coalition government.

With persistent obstinacy in Congress, the greatest opportunity for progress, the thinking goes, lies in foreign affairs.

The donkey's occasional obstinacy in refusing work too heavy for it has become proverbial, but its equally proverbial stupidity is often a reaction to brutal treatment and neglect.

In December he offered Republicans a compromise on the deficit only to see them walk off and double down on their obstinacy in the House.

House Republicans opposed this aspect of the stimulus bill, but they did not need to frame their obstinacy in the form of an argument.

Against this tendency, it is sustained an approach based on respecting the person and on the adequacy of the means to employ in order to avoid any form of therapeutic obstinacy which in any way can not include the assessment of the quality of the newborn's future life.

The distrust and obstinacy start in the streets.

(The company's obstinacy resulted in 28 liability suits filed by municipalities claiming that Glock is responsible for murders committed with its weapons; 11 suits remain).

Pompidou stated "France is a widow", thus announcing the country's new historical condition with the loss of the single elderly citizen who had husbanded the nation's failing strength in the war in 1940 and from then on had given himself, in devoted obstinacy, to saving France whether in war or in peace, whether in office as its President or in retirement as its critic.

In light of its obstinacy this past December in Durban, the U.S. must act more aggressively and positively as a leader of climate change policy if it expects China to follow suit; U.S. stubbornness legitimizes the excuses of other countries that shy away from effective action.