Sentence examples for their obstinacy from inspiring English sources

Those who didn't are renowned for their obstinacy and thrift.

Their obstinacy in sticking to their customs, one could not deny it respect.

The filmmakers follow the narrow limits of a self-imposed rule, and their obstinacy courts cinematic disaster.

In December he offered Republicans a compromise on the deficit only to see them walk off and double down on their obstinacy in the House.

House Republicans opposed this aspect of the stimulus bill, but they did not need to frame their obstinacy in the form of an argument.

Along with their obstinacy goes vanity; they cannot bear to be seen to be defeated, especially when this would suggest they were stupider than their opponent.

Yet a Texas general praised their "considerable obstinacy" on the battlefield.

But gradually and inevitably, they become friends, as they discover that their proud obstinacy, initially an obstacle between them, is really a virtue that they share.

By their presence and obstinacy, birdwatchers affect the attractiveness of the breeding, migration or roosting sites for birds, flush birds, and otherwise increase the pressure on birds and their habitats (e.g., luring birds out of their hideouts and stressing them by playing their calls or exposing birds and their nests to predators).

As one of their executives puts it, obstinacy by the Hong Kong government is only one of his first worries; FedEx's lobbying of its own government in Washington is his biggest.

Populist conceptions of idealization are widely regarded as subject to enormous problems, since people can "withhold their assent because of obstinacy, selfishness, laziness, perversity, or confusion" (Gaus 1996, 121).