I think the Americans' stubborn position on the Falklands, going along with the view that Britain and Argentina ought to negotiate, while knowing that London has no intention to, is a much more serious affront.But in general there seems to me to be too great a willingness to find deep, antagonistic motives in Mr Obama's behaviour.
But the Los Angeles area maintained its stubborn position almost a dollar higher at $2.66, according to AAA's daily survey of fuel prices.
At a time in which politics is descending into shrill polemic and stubborn position-taking, Chakrabarti has done something admirable in her report.
And in the process he will push riled Republicans into stubborn positions that, if he is successful, will become increasingly unpopular.
Their stubborn positions on Obamacare are self-defeating, and eventually they will have to be bailed out by the federal government -- which means the rest of us in primarily blue states.
Among the Korean Independence Party members, Jo So-ang, who was a famous thinker for the "Theory of Three Equality' and opposed the left-right coalition, kept stubborn anticommunist position because, he thought, communism denied national solidarity for the cause of working class solidarity.
So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?" What she has in mind, she continues, is "a book that takes up residence in the murky gap between genres, and by its stubborn self-position there, forces us to consider important things".
And the governor is just a very stubborn, set-your-position-and-stick-to-it kind of guy".
The two presidents are clashing in Ukraine, where one is firm and stubborn in his positions and the other is flexible and open.
Prominently absent in the agenda for the Korean talks was any direct mention of North Korea's nuclear weapons program, indicating how stubborn the North's position remained on the issue.
As I saw at the pool table, the flip side of deep conviction can be a stubborn refusal to change positions even when the facts change.
