At the interview, he must have been obdurate, demanding express appeasement of his wants. |
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Lovely, to be sure, but if it wasn't accepted as being classic, it would upset those more obdurate imbibers with its bravura. |
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But for all his reputation as a pragmatist, there's a steely and obdurate side to him that comes to the surface every so often. |
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That will be grist to McGeechan's mill after an afternoon in which his side struggled to wear down obdurate but limited opponents. |
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There is no doubting their commitment, however, and they will continue to offer obdurate opposition for the rest of the challengers. |
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Two minutes into second half the visitors' obdurate defence finally cracked, for the first time in 280 minutes. |
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A noble, obdurate of his usual code of conduct, stumbled in a panic fuelled frenzy of blind groping and misplaced steps. |
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In favouring the obdurate option, United cramped Celtic for room and impressively limited their effectiveness. |
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The husband looked up from poking the washing machine with his screwdriver to suggest I was being obdurate. |
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They are, after all, award-winning teachers, however obdurate a pupil the federal government is proving. |
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But I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits. |
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An obdurate will, rather than soft-headedness, is the primary reason why they cling to self-refuting concepts. |
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His image as an obdurate hardman culminated in the notorious case where he bit reporter Frank Oliver's nose. |
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Meanwhile, time alone probably will not have unevolved the obdurate and ancient instinct that all humans bear. |
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Other paintings in the show juxtapose cinematic effects with sections that insist upon the obdurate flatness of the picture's surface. |
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Frustrated by her friend's dim-wittedness and by the community's obdurate Presbyterian mentality, she rushes to help. |
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Over the next few weeks, Rosemary discovered that several other people had planned to open small shops in Camembert, only to give up after encountering obdurate bureaucracy. |
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The Croatian strategy, under its hardline president Franjo Tudjman, is equally obdurate. |
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Both teams have had their chances but Algeria are undeniably the more obdurate of the two defences on show at the moment. |
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The Government, it seemed, was determined to remain obdurate on the matter of bargaining and arbitration. |
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The Europeans will aim to maintain their blistering attacking form in the clash with the obdurate South Americans. |
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The two Dutch wing-backs form part of an obdurate rearguard which conceded just two goals in eight matches during qualification. |
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Paradoxically, all this is threatened by man's obdurate desire to achieve ever greater speed of locomotion and by society's mobility. |
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Or would they present the more obdurate face they showed Japan before succumbing to a goal in injury time. |
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Obviously, this process can also be conducted in bad faith by an obdurate party which wished simply to delay and drag things on. |
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In the face of all this pressure the dark remains obdurate in its determination to hold this world back. |
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The importance of such situations should not, on the other hand, become a pretext for obdurate opposition to the philosophy of the reform. |
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It remains obdurate in maintaining the past as a way to control the future, a most unwise proposition given the circumstances. |
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The men wearing numbers 5, 6 and 35 make up a defensive triumvirate as formidable, aggressive, powerful and obdurate as any in the club's history. |
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Yet instead of scaling back their political ambitions in the face of an obdurate reality, they are escalating them. |
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It happened because of massive and obdurate resistance to reasonable change. |
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It has some bearing on the meaning of one of the great historical novels that remains canonical in the most obdurate of ways, Alessandro Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi. |
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No one but the most obdurate can fail to acknowledge that the main political problem that has convulsed this beautiful State is still a long way from being resolved. |
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But with Liverpool likely to field a weakened team to face an obdurate Burnley side buoyed by back-to-back wins and clean sheets, it may not be such a foregone conclusion. |
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I perhaps sound like an obdurate woman lacking the maternal instincts worthy of such a precious gift as a child but nothing could be further from the truth. |
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Coal black lines run down into its centre and over the inky patterning of the outer surface are obdurate glazy dribbles. |
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If he can help communicate the immutability of natural laws to America's almost equally obdurate politicians, then on top, rather than on tap, is where he deserves to be. |
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I fear the gentleman to whom Miss Amelia's letters were addressed was rather an obdurate critic. |
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A self-contradictory brief, an obdurate producer, talentless talent. |
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This House should therefore call upon the Commission to take issue with the incredibly obdurate attitude of the new Director-General, Mr Lamoureux, and ensure that an amicable agreement is reached. |
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It was on the promise of a fair and timely appeal system that the legislation carried, and the executive branch's failure to fulfill this promise is a sign of obdurate defiance of democratic authority. |
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These would punish Mr Kibaki's more obdurate ministers and backers, while sparing poorer Kenyans from the effects of general trade and aid sanctions. |
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It was he who adjusted it, or corralled it, to the needs of the obdurate, cranky, noisy Linotype machines which then printed almost everything in America. |
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Angola and Congo have formed a joint company to exploit Congo's oil. But now there are signs that Angola is getting fed up with Mr Kabila's obdurate refusal to co-operate with his saviours. |
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With such a hard, obdurate material, it is not easy to get across the dragging feeling of fleet happiness, the pain of wounded self-esteem, tears from the heart invisible to the world. |
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As for you, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, it is clear that we are talking about an area in which an obdurate attachment to sovereignty is in evidence which, in my opinion, should be totally banished. |
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The teams also produced a stalemate in their opening match of the second group stage at the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Thick fog enveloped the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires where two obdurate defences cancelled each other out. |
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Iñaki Sáez's well-drilled side's triumph was built on the bedrock of an impervious defence, which did not concede in a campaign that ended with a characteristically obdurate 1-0 victory against Greece in the final. |
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Whilst the obdurate problems in the United States have to be resolved as quickly as possible, new opportunities are presenting themselves for the European activities. |
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Instead an obdurate prime minister has spewed out incendiary rhetoric that sparked anger among the tens of thousands of mostly young people taking to the streets across the country to show solidarity with Taksim. |
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An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham back-to back Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months. |
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