Sentence examples for this obstinacy from inspiring English sources

Because of this obstinacy and courage he is perhaps the only modern couturier who has actually perpetuated his name.

As the head of the jury observes, after yet another unsuccessful attempt to negotiate with his winner: "This obstinacy would be Khan's undoing, Paul hoped.

If they really follow through on this obstinacy, it could cost virtually all workers an average of $1,000 in their paychecks, beginning next month.

The president may be a lazy man; but ever since winning the governorship of Texas he has built his political career on promising a few popular things, and then making sure that he does them (his big tax cut, for better or worse, illustrated this obstinacy).

For Cyril, this seeming obstinacy is a manifestation of faith: he feverishly believes in his father, believes that they will be reunited and that Guy would never have sold Cyril's beloved bicycle.

Ms Sexton and other former insiders point to long waiting lists they say were ignored by the big car companies, who chose instead to shut down their electric programmes and to crush most of those electric cars.All this talk of the obstinacy and ruthlessness of Detroit comes as no surprise to Andrew Frank, an engineering professor at the University of California at Davis.

And still the FTC refused to give way.This obstinacy suggests that broader forces may be at work.

"But that is not happening in this country because of the obstinacy or shamelessness of the political parties".

This might allow an end run around the obstinacy of Mr. Hebert, and the indifference of his superiors.

But when, after a corrosive union with a volatile husband, this "seed of obstinacy" leads her to Christianity and inevitable martyrdom, the plucky voice gets lost in religious platitudes.

I think that a man was put here on Earth to live, not just to exist, and today is the proudest day of my life"), self-pitying determination ("I wish I didn't have to be here and that I didn't have to do this"), and bullying obstinacy (he punched a cameraman).