Obstinate
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In the funeral of the famous British journalist Joe Strombel (Ian McShane), his colleagues and friends recall how
obstinate
he was while seeking for a scoop.
You have to laugh when you see, how people can be stupid,
obstinate
and crazy.
What makes the teenage years so vexing is how a young person's line of thinking evolves from the logical, unadultered mannerisms of childhood to the obstinate, interpretive idiosyncrasy of adulthood.
Hill plays a wealthy, but obstinate, heavy-drinking and bitter, man who is on a trip into the desert with his wife and their guide to examine a potential mine.
Let’s suspend our disbelief, then, and try to imagine what Europe could and should be doing to tackle some of the most far-reaching and
obstinate
policy challenges that will determine whether the next 50 years are as constructive as the last.
Sometimes her expression is briefly clouded by a streak of stifled pain,
obstinate
and not wholly contained.
Yes, a harsh sanctions regime might still gain additional supporters, but an Iran with its back against the wall would probably be even more
obstinate
in its nuclear drive.
The decision to prioritize reforms over
obstinate
rule-following proved to be a good one.
The
obstinate
battle cry of the Bush administration in Iraq has now won out in Obama’s planned surge of an additional 30,000 troops in Afghanistan.
But this view not only is shortsighted from a financial point of view; it also neglects the impact of public opinion, which is already beginning to turn against
obstinate
companies.
May’s supporters think she is determined; others reckon she is simply
obstinate
and blind to reason.
Though Bush shifted his policy toward bilateral negotiations with the North a few months later, the Kim regime had become much more
obstinate.
He was a man of charm and determination – known to his friends for being obstinate, “like a peasant determined to sell a cow,” but an inspirational figure for those who worked for him.
Like Wilson, Bush had an
obstinate
commitment to his vision that inhibited learning and adjustment.
It did not help, of course, that Clinton – enabled by an
obstinate
Democratic Party establishment – ran a weak and visionless campaign that ignored the mounting anger of millions of voters who felt left behind by globalization.
Leaked drafts of intellectual-property proposals show an
obstinate
US effort to require patent protections for plants and animals, thus going beyond the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.
And Turkey, encouraged by the power vacuum that exists all around it, as well as by the
obstinate
resistance of most EU members to admit the Turks to their “Christian club,” is starting to think in neo-Ottoman terms.
Until now, the rest of world could only grumble at Europe’s
obstinate
refusal to recognize its relative decline.
Though May now seems to hold a more realistic view of the security risks Brexit poses, others in her party remain
obstinate.
The destabilizing consequences of this
obstinate
failure to reform sufficiently multilateral governance have been compounded by China’s own struggle to reconcile its domestic priorities with its global economic responsibilities as the world’s second-largest economy.
Iran is obstinate, prideful, ambitious, and, yes, sometimes paranoid.
A less perilous version of chicken is being played by Theresa May, the
obstinate
vicar’s daughter who is the United Kingdom’s prime minister.
She also saw that at this conversation Vronsky's face immediately assumed a serious and
obstinate
expression.
The rock above him, a few centimetres from his face, streamed with water, which fell in large continuous rapid drops with a sort of
obstinate
rhythm, always at the same spot.
But among all the
obstinate
seekers of that epoch, Baron Desruinaux had certainly left the reputation for the most heroic intelligence.
But he still smiled; he regretted nothing, for the Grégoires had maintained an
obstinate
faith in their mine.
No doubt there was no harm in that, but Maheu was obstinate; if he did not replant his lettuces they would be faded by to-morrow.
His white pointed teeth, his thin mouth and nose, with his rosy complexion, gave him a girlish appearance, an air of
obstinate
gentleness, across which the grey reflection of his steely eyes threw savage gleams.
In six months it would conquer the world, and would be able to dictate laws to the masters should they prove
obstinate.
In order to get his fifty metres, Maheu struggled with a comrade who was also obstinate; in turn they each took off a centime from the tram; and if he conquered in the end it was only by lowering the wage to such an extent, that the captain Richomme, who was standing behind him, muttered between his teeth, and nudged him with his elbow, growling angrily that he could never do it at that price.
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