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Example sentences for: obstinate

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"[D]espite the impossible circumstances under which they were written, they are an extraordinary and moving record of a courageous, compassionate and obstinate mind dedicated to democratic principles and the amelioration of the Chinese people's harsh fate" (Judith Shapiro, the New York Times Book Review ).
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 adjective, which now means `contrary or obstinate,' was originally just a lazy pronunciation of ordinary . That is also what it meant.
A typical county boast still often expressed is Sussex won't be druv and anyone contrairy is reckoned to be obstinate.
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.