Sentence examples for obstinately refusing from inspiring English sources

Some resisted obstinately, refusing to pronounce the Qurʾān a "created" work.

He quarrelled at once with the new government, obstinately refusing to accept its nominee as foreign minister, Adrian Cioroianu.

By obstinately refusing to expand their Medicaid program at virtually no cost to their state budgets, these states are recklessly imposing additional barriers to the welfare of millions.

Instead, it turned into another war of attrition, with both teams concentrating on getting nine or ten men behind the ball, and obstinately refusing to let anyone on the opposing team make much forward progress.

Meanwhile, the minor failures of main-scale teachers would be aired in evening briefing, upon which each member would shake their heads and tut, obstinately refusing to remember the difficulty of full-time teaching.

Russia is also obstinately refusing to normalise relations with its former Baltic satellites, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which are now close to joining the EU and, most probably, NATO too.The most pressing practical issue is the Kaliningrad region, a Baltic exclave of Russian territory acquired only in 1945 and sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.

Osborne, who was also directing, had obstinately refused appeals for rewrites.

Like most beleaguered managers, he is finding that luck obstinately refuses to help him.

Further, Britain has also obstinately refused to fully acknowledge its bloodied history of colonial violence.

The Acadians, claiming to be neutral, obstinately refused to take the oath of allegiance to the British crown.

Was he not the man to take the decisions which his defeated opponent Yitzhak Shamir had obstinately refused to take?