A timeline for an American withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a stubborn sticking point during the long days of talks.
Why were women so stubborn on this point?
In private, the prime minister, for all his indecision, is stubborn on one point.
Economists and public health experts say stubborn malnutrition rates point to a central failing in this democracy of the poor.
In tours past the "playing their natural game" mantra has been profound and at times stubborn to the point of self-immolation.
The IRA and Sinn Fein, meanwhile, have sounded stubborn to the point of surliness about the possibility of weapons ever actually being decommissioned.But the approach of the elections may finally have pushed a lever.
But the sense of unyieldingness somehow prevailed, and by 1936 we find adamant meaning just plain stubborn (though the point at which it slid from noun to adjective is "not determinable").
Several people deeply involved in state politics said the very attributes that many voters admired -- stubborn to the point of rude, temperamental and cocksure in his maverick military way -- worked against him with other politicians.
But you can also be stubborn to the point of even feuding with friends.. Nothing will go right for you when you're irritated, so learn to laugh it off.
