Sentence examples for so obstinate from inspiring English sources

Fell ponies are so obstinate".

He was so obstinate that he quit Life in a dispute over his Albert Schweitzer essay.

With even prominent Republicans saying that his current stance is unsustainable, the obvious question to ask is: Why is the Mittster being so obstinate?

Those curators — Jean Clair, 69, an art historian, and Robert Badinter, 82, a former justice minister — were so obstinate that they threatened to quit the project without La Veuve, or the Widow, according to Mr. Clair.

And I'm trying to cast back — I don't know how far I'd have to go back to find one, a combination of a House, Senate, and White House, that has been so obstinate in resisting facts, dissenting opinions, compromise.

Rumor is rampant in Germany precisely because Mr. Kohl has proved so obstinate in guarding what now amounts to an affair of state as a personal secret, and saying his "honor" justifies this stance.

There had been two conflicting suspicions about Cook's captaincy: the first was that England remained for long enough a team in Strauss's image, and the second that Cook could be an inflexible, obstinate so-and-so.

I'm extremely obstinate, so I don't let things go.

To the Editor: With obstructionists on both sides of the aisle in Congress, the White House has scored an impressive public relations coup in persuading so many that only obstinate Republicans are to blame.

This, say his supporters, shows merely that Mr Chirac is adaptable and pragmatic, rather than ideological and obstinate.Maybe so, but what should one make of his belated conversion, blessed by a referendum last month, to the concept of a five-year presidential term rather than a seven-year one?

Without doubt he was foolishly obstinate in wasting so much public money in appealing against Heather Brooke's freedom of information requests.