He had, he said, "obstinately" refused to grasp that the trend of the market had turned against him in early 2008.
'I'll do as I choose and go as I please,' said Bilbo obstinately.
You could say we are obstinately trying to be old-fashioned".
The AFC, obstinately, said only it was working with Fifa and would not even call for his release.
Immediately after the auction, China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage released an angry statement saying "Christie's obstinately went ahead with the auction, going against the spirit of international conventions and common international understanding that cultural relics should be returned to their country of origin".
Canon 915 in the church's Code of Canon Law says that people who have been excommunicated or who "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion".
And yet, under "the dreck and distractions of overloaded tourism and coarsened spectacle," Mr. Hughes says, "the glories of the remoter past remain, somewhat diminished but obstinately indelible" — remnants of Rome's splendiferous earlier lives.
That probably says more about the spotlight than it does about his art, which has been consistent over the years, obstinately so.
"Hip-hop and R&B are so overtly masculine, so obstinately heterosexual that I can appreciate how singing about having loved, or being in love with, a man might have been something [Ocean] had to consider before he pressed record," says urban music writer Hattie Collins.
Then Interior Minister Natan Sharansky, leader of a small Russian immigrant party, resigned, saying that Mr. Barak had obstinately refused to divulge his positions in advance and to build the internal support needed for what could be difficult concessions ahead.
