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Example sentences for: obstinate
How can you use “obstinate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
A typical county boast still often expressed is Sussex won't be druv and anyone contrairy is reckoned to be obstinate.
The adjective, which now means `contrary or obstinate,' was originally just a lazy pronunciation of ordinary . That is also what it meant.
In the past, the most obstinate white opponents of integration (the Goldwater wing of the Republican Party and conservative Southern Democrats ) argued that people should have the right to associate--or not to associate--with whomever they wish.
If this drags on for too long, and Iran (say) seems inexcusably obstinate, it can be judged noncompliant by a vote of convention members, and sanctioned accordingly.
The WSJ runs a fine feature about the military's obstinate attachment to anti-Soviet era big ticket weapons systems and its concomitant failure to fully tap the potential of newer, smaller ideas.
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