| At the main breach the defence was obstinate, but the defenders were taken in rear by the men of the light division. |
| He was increasingly criticized for his autocratic and obstinate style of leadership. |
| It may be possible to chip away at recalcitrant citizens by portraying the obstinate allies as mischievous or worse. |
| Someone who had been 'a remarkably undogmatic man, unassuming and even diffident in manner' became obstinate in the extreme. |
| They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things. |
| To complete the course, she'll depend on a musher riding ahead and radioing back warnings of low branches, obstinate moose, and open water. |
