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Then, when I stand up for myself, or when I act stubborn and obstinate, I fight with people.
They did not like being bested, but it was precisely his obstinate redamancy that kept them going in all its forms.
To complete the course, she'll depend on a musher riding ahead and radioing back warnings of low branches, obstinate moose, and open water.
They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
Enzymes, bacteria, acids and other strange brews have been offered as magic bullets for obstinate algae.
The square of Mars to Saturn induce him to be obstinate and a little willful, a tincture of malice remaining in him.
Being the obstinate set of girls they were, the debate would carry on until one of them had decided it best to just kill the subject.
Why be obstinate and persist in planting rice if eventually we don't make any money?
From what he knew, Miette was obstinate, so stubborn that it was odd to see her even shed a tear from physical pain, let alone emotional.
He was familiar with her obstinate behaviour, and knew that any attempt to dissuade her from doing what she wanted would only invoke her anger.
Despite his obstinate attitude, he beckoned for Eva and Sofia to accompany him.
She was opinionated and obstinate, and Charles soon found he had nothing to worry about.
But, as the obstinate refusers show, it is possible to opt out of particular activities because others will happily take them on.
Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils.
In his prose he becomes a powerful presence, a personality with obstinate opinions and sardonic asides.
This person is the most opinionated, wrong, obstinate person I've seen in this courtroom.
She continued to rip off the obstinate gnashing steel contraption to no avail.
The feature provides the workaround for its obstinate blocking of incoming packets, in some cases.
Those inept, self-important idiots ran that place into the ground, creating unnecessary crises through decades of obstinate mismanagement.
This would go a long way to reduce some of our citizens' obstinate dependence on the weekly collection of waste.
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The slant-eyed boy took a little longer, but showed the same obstinate behavior and the sheriff had to discipline him accordingly.
To prove that he is not being obstinate, the author gives his disembodied gray-day poetry a backdrop of white picket-fence perfection.
My words fell out in the voice I used at the palace, to instruct an obstinate official of one region or other, or to take the delegates in hand.
And so the picture began to build up of an obstinate, contrary old man, with a fixed idea which no one could dislodge.
Still, his obstinate moral intuitions may have been a virtue in this crisis.
He was rash, arrogant and obstinate, contentious, envious and malicious, covetous and corrupt.
He is wandering around with the phone in the crook of his neck and shoulder, gamely trying to placate an obstinate interviewer.
It's this obstinate refusal to pussyfoot around and pull punches that endears her to those sick of spin and glib sloganeering.
They retain their anger for a long time and are obstinate in their opinions.
At the main breach the defence was obstinate, but the defenders were taken in rear by the men of the light division.
It may be possible to chip away at recalcitrant citizens by portraying the obstinate allies as mischievous or worse.
The outcome also satisfied the public sense of outrage at an obstinate governmental bureaucracy and at an injustice eventually righted.
He was increasingly criticized for his autocratic and obstinate style of leadership.
He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
For the grey-haired, being young is often equated with being hot-headed, turbulent, self-willed, obstinate, and too hot to handle.
Ye are an unruly obstinate people, whose hearts are unreformed and uncircumcised.
Someone who had been 'a remarkably undogmatic man, unassuming and even diffident in manner' became obstinate in the extreme.
Although I was being importuned with an obstinate request for alms, I nonetheless summoned enough courage to give him a glowering look in an attempt to scare him away.
In many obstinate skin disorders like psoriasis and eczema where the application of soap aggravates the problem, patients are best advised to use curd while bathing.
Looking back, I see the gracious hand of our sovereign God overruling my obstinate reluctance and giving me new desires that were not natural for me.
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He was a bulldog in his pursuits wearing down the most obstinate official.
As anticipated, the resumed negotiations failed to bring about a substantial breakthrough because both Pyongyang and Washington did not budge from their obstinate positions.
Thanks to the Prime Minister, s remarks, many people think that both farmers and the county council are being obstinate in refusing to reopen footpaths and bridle ways.
Many of the more experienced contenders have spent decades trying to convince an obstinate babu that they are not dead as shown in Government records.
I dealt with her as I dealt with my own mother, who could also be obstinate and single-minded, I did my best to avoid telling Kay things I knew she did not want to hear.
They were horrid, smelly, dirty and obstinate things that dominated your life right through every winter, and no-one who doesn't have to would even think of having one.
Her obstinate search for justice, despite her advancing pregnancy and the opposition of her husband and his family, takes her to the bewildering hubbub of the city.
In the end it is the feeling of incongruity that persists, something obstinate and impenitent and a sense that nobody quite knows what to do about it.
The more the Republicans lose, the more stubborn and obstinate they become.
He predicted the embattled and obstinate leader will fall in a matter of days.
The vengeance-seeking, obstinate businessman and peace preacher are soon forced into a farcical confrontation.
Clodius set about depriving Caesar's senatorial enemies of two of their more obstinate leaders in Cato and Cicero.
The history of Rome's campaigning is, if nothing else, a history of obstinate persistence overcoming appalling losses.
Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.
If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.
Recognising that we are strong-minded is not the same as accepting ourselves to be stubborn or obstinate.
Burning torches and heated irons are sometimes resorted to as aids in subduing unamiable and obstinate animals.
It may appear as an epidemic, as a hereditary complaint, or as an obstinate and incorrigible disease again and again recurring.
And little lathy Charles with his long, narrow white face and obstinate chin, is no A B C of a boy.
People have grown sullen and obstinate, and are becoming disgusted with the faith which condemns them to such a day as this, once in every seven.
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A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly non-infective.
I refer to such issues as determinism versus pure chance, fatalism versus tychism, and other obstinate questions appropriate to works by Plato, Spinoza, and Kant.
The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first.
First, by them made obstinate by the onetime masters of the universe.
Examples from Classical Literature
In obstinate cutaneous eruptions, more especially those of a papular character.
He was in a manner a friend of mine, but he was always obstinate and wrong-headed.
I soon noticed that the male pigeon had reached a sort of reconcilement to those obstinate visits.
His companions had nicknamed him hardhead because of his obstinate character.
In obstinate cases of prolapse Agnew48 recommends the use of a rectal obturator or the use of a hemorrhoidal truss.
Is not that like nobody on earth but sweet, slow, obstinate, countrified Aunt Ann?
If Horta had tried to apply pressure, he'd have turned obstinate on the instant.
Resentment also preys upon the mind, and occasions the most obstinate disorders, which gradually waste the constitution.
Directly I go away from here I shall make a list of my most really obstinate, pushful friends to help me.
He was selfish, willful, and obstinate at two-and-thirty as he had been at ten years of age.
Dogmatic and obstinate authority involved our anti-revolutionary astronomers in fresh complications.
His face was obstinate, honest, kindly, his features were as blunt as his talk.
There was obstinate constipation, with dyspnoea, death ensuing in a few days.
He knew this and yet he felt obstinate, mulish almost, as he sat down to reply non-committally to Miss Van Tuyn's letter.
On this issue the dispute in the convention was obstinate and irreconcilable.
A pig's an obstinate critter at his best, an' a peccary's a pig at his worst!
But Leon refused to be alarmed, for he maintained an obstinate faith in the mine.
They were actually the most obstinate, headstrong, mulish people that you could ever imagine.
Hence its use in obstinate constipation, in cholic, in the iliac passion, and in stranguary.
You do be the most obstinate and worst-tempered of the whole lot,' from cate.
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This was one of the most severe and obstinate cases of chorea that I have ever met with.
It is exhausting to belabour a thick-skinned and obstinate animal with a stick.
There were nine relaxed in person and, as none of them are described as obstinate, it may be assumed that all were garrotted.
Here he was making havoc with fire and sword, when Michelson came up and defeated him in a long and obstinate fight.
Yet prejudices so obstinate have not made him an ungentle or impracticable companion.
The traumatic form is excessively obstinate and intractable.
The unnaturalness of her crime stood out the more harshly by the side of her hard immovability and obstinate silence.
He lived in a world of obstinate and incessant change, tand in parts where its operations were unsparingly conspicuous.
He turned my way, and looked as he used to look at the afternoon service when he was catechising an obstinate child.
But Mr. muggins was obstinate, and would not listen to reason.
Mr. Travers' voice went on dogmatic and obstinate for a long time.
Only you're silly, and obstinate, babyish and silly and obstinate.
The brewer was obstinate, and insisted on dying in the blacking.
You are the most obstinate, prejudiced man I've ever met, Mr. bunter.
We should, they say, pardon the conscienceless and obstinate.
The constipation, which had been very obstinate, also began to yield.
He's as straight and square and honest as he is obstinate and cranky.
Did ever God create so crass and obstinate a thing as woman?
She was a trifle obstinate and dogmatical, but we got on fairly well.
When he was obstinate, and insisted on exerting himself, she gave in.
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He is very decided, but never will be obstinate, if you reason kindly, not oppose impatiently.
And supposing you persevered in your obstinate fast, and died by that means, and they refused to bury you in the precincts of the kirk?
With regard to a large number of matters about which other men are decided or obstinate, he was the most easily manageable man in the world.
But the obstinate Canadian refused, and I saw that his taciturnity and his bad humour grew day by day.
If Monsignor Palma proves obstinate his holiness will never consent.
Are you still as obstinate as ever about that hot-water bottle?
Akbar did not appeal to an unreflecting or an obstinate people.
The ill humour of Roland Graeme was never of an obstinate character.
He was looking out of the window now, pale and immovably obstinate.
To be injected or snuffed into the nose in obstinate cases of nosebleed.
He's as obstinate as a pig, but that's the only swinish thing about him.
But King George and his Tory ministers were obstinate to folly.
It was the mute, obstinate, eternal protest, and it was expectation also.
You preferred being obstinate and wilful toward me, I suppose?
She stole away, with her formal curtsey, her noiseless step, and her obstinate resolution to take the gloomiest view of her husband's case.
I'm an obstinate kind of creature, and get things by hanging on.
But Panoria was an obstinate child, and she returned to the charge.
Beaufort evidently felt it, and being unused to dismissals, stood staring at her with an obstinate line between his eyes.
How are we to manage the war with those obstinate pisan rebels?
Rachel I know is obstinate, but mother means well, Mr. prong.
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I was again attacked by a remittent fever of an obstinate character.
The storm exasperated him, the gale made him furious, and he longed to lash the obstinate sea into obedience.
These reflections had tamed and brought down to a pitch of sounder judgment a temper, which, under other circumstances, might have waxed haughty, supercilious, and obstinate.
Aurelia was set against her goin' away while Rebecca was at school, but she's obstinate as a mule, Hannah is, and she just took her own way in spite of her mother.
The forewoman was especially severe with Ona, because she believed that she was obstinate on account of having been refused a holiday the day after her wedding.
Begrudgingly following in the shadow of his obstinate grandmother, 12-year-old Ahmed accompanies her on a journey to understand what happened to a father he never knew.
Jostled, but obstinate, he would remain there, trying to express the view newly opened to his sympathies of the human and equine misery in close association.
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who, in spite of these differences, shall still persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
For example, daisy grubbers and the invaluable pig tail weeder, shaped like a cork-screw with a long handle, are still perfect for dealing with the most obstinate of weeds.
In whatever light she viewed the conduct or disposition of her cousin, she was met by obstinate facts that admitted of no cavil nor of any exaggeration.
This goes to prove that I turned the horses with the reins, for no man who is shot in the right shoulder can have strength enough to bring round such obstinate devils.
For example, daisy grubbers and the invaluable pig tail weeder, shaped like a corkscrew with a long handle, are still perfect for dealing with the most obstinate of weeds.
