Sentence examples for obstinately from inspiring English sources

Bond advocated a return to the lucid frenzy and forensic violence of the Greeks in Olly's Prison (a 1993 teleplay), in which a father kills an obstinately silent daughter for refusing to drink a cup of tea; and in There Will Be More, when a modern, child-killing Medea becomes a refugee from the asylum bombed by her own military husband.

Obstinately to abstain from addressing two of their understaffed areas which have been obvious for most of the summer will be incomprehensible to the club's supporters.

Even so, Mr Zetsche insisted the long-term goal is to raise Chrysler's sales, which have fallen obstinately short of the 3m target set in the 2001 turnaround plan.

No matter how satisfied Quebeckers are with Mr Bouchard and his government, support for secession obstinately refuses to go beyond 45% in the opinion polls, and sometimes dips much lower.

It began with President Alberto Fujimori obstinately launching his candidacy for a constitutionally dubious third term, which he proceeded to win after an unfair campaign and a rigged election.

For even if the flab obstinately stays on, it appears that exercise alters the way in which fat cells work, presumably for the better.

Airbus, by contrast, has only one customer for its rival A350 long-haul plane, and sees orders for the A380 obstinately stuck at 154.Boeing sorely needed a boost, not least to spread cheer at its civil-aircraft base in Seattle.

With the range of free-to-air digital channels the BBC already broadcasts and the arrival in the shops last month of £100 set-top boxes, the government not only reckons that DTT can be kept alive, but is obstinately sticking to its timetable for analogue switch-off.The government's determination seems odd.