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Obstinacy in sentence

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When I saw Joel Meyerowitz recently, I told him how much I admired his passionate obstinacy, his determination to push through all the bureaucratic red tape to get to work, and he laughed, and he said, "I'm stubborn, but I think what's more important is my passionate optimism."
Abdullah faces the obstinacy of dozens of half-brothers and the recalcitrance of thousands of male cousins and nephews, in addition to the dogmatic admonitions of the entrenched Wahhabis.
But then the TPP’s boosters have to contend with the obstinacy of Japanese rice farmers (Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is vowing to address that) and of US patent and copyright holders.
One option for overcoming German obstinacy would be to pursue a series of small compromises.
Perhaps the clearest indication of Israel’s obstinacy came from its economy minister, Naftali Bennett, last July.
Merkel’s now legendary obstinacy eventually might have to succumb to the imperatives of politics.
Once again, America’s lack of commitment to multilateralism, its obstinacy, and its willingness to put political expediency above principles – and even its own national interests – has triumphed.
Congressional obstinacy is forcing the Fund to miss out on an opportunity to strengthen its finances at a time when most other countries have already approved the initiative.
In addition, Japanese policymakers currently must contend with Trump’s obstinacy on the issue of Japan’s host-nation support for US forces stationed in the country, with the administration appearing to press Japan for a massive increase.
'For you it's a matter of obstinacy,' she said, after gazing intently at him and suddenly finding a name for that look that irritated her so.
'Just obstinacy!
He asked for supper, and began telling her about the races; but by his tone and by his looks, which grew colder and colder, she saw that he had not forgiven her her victory, and that the obstinacy, against which she had fought, had again taken possession of him.
It was expected that on that morning work would be resumed, but the obstinacy of the directors in not yielding exasperated the miners.
On both sides obstinacy was piling up ruin: while labour was dying of hunger, capital was being destroyed.
The Company, irritated by the obstinacy of the strikers, talked of giving back their certificates to the compromised miners.
That was as far as Father Quandieu's intelligence went, stiffened by his obstinacy of military duty, his narrow skull, and eyes dimmed by the black melancholy of half a century spent underground.
The livid wretch, clinging with imbecile obstinacy to his fixed idea, continued to stammer his need of cleaning himself.
Alzire, from the obstinacy with which her poor hands had dug in the snow, was dying.
She was chewing the mouthfuls painfully; he made her pay for each with a caress, in his jealous obstinacy not willing to die until he had had her again in the other man's presence.
What obstinacy not to wear flannels!
Ah! you will find many prejudices to combat, Monsieur Bovary, much obstinacy of routine, with which all the efforts of your science will daily come into collision; for people still have recourse to novenas, to relics, to the priest, rather than come straight to the doctor or the chemist.
And Homais retired, declaring that he could not understand this obstinacy, this blindness in refusing the benefactions of science.
Leon, motionless, looked at her, no longer even attempting to speak a single word, to make a gesture, so discouraged was he at this two-fold obstinacy of gossip and indifference.
This unexpected obstinacy awoke all the latent pride in Mathilde's nature.
Possibly the result may have been brought about by the natural obstinacy of all things in this world.
"In the absence of more enlightened counselors, the experience of a discreet matron is frequently of great efficacy in checking the progress of disease; under such circumstances, madam, it is dreadful to have to contend with ignorance and obstinacy."
The spinster was too much awe-struck to venture an undigested reply to this speech; and the surgeon, after pausing a moment in a kind of philosophical disdain, continued,-"That any man in his senses can doubt of the flux of the tides is more than I could have thought possible; yet obstinacy is a dangerous inmate to harbor, and may lead us into any error, however gross."
Even that perverse fellow, John Lawton, could not behave with more obstinacy."
I resisted the proposal with obstinacy; and now I began to arm myself with arguments.
He appeared surprised at my obstinacy, as he called it; told me I was unkind to myself, and unkind to him in it; that it was a crisis unlooked for upon us both, and impossible for either of us to foresee, but that he did not see any other way to save us both from ruin, and therefore he thought it the more unkind; but that if he must say no more of it to me, he added with an unusual coldness, that he did not know anything else we had to talk of; and so he rose up to take his leave.
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