How To Use Obduracy In A Sentence
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The obduracy and obstinacy of human beings is what enables them to fight for their countries, repel invaders and maintain their solidarity.
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MPs have accused the government of obduracy and called on ministers to reverse their decision.
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Hisagency has been criticized for obduracy and for not reining in environmental zealots.
Henry J. Stern: The Pete Grannis Dismissal: A New Low
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I am incensed that the council appears to be issuing a written policy that eliminates any opportunity for discretion and reasonable judgement, and promotes institutional obduracy.
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a fund of purblind obduracy, of opaque _flunkyism_ grown truculent and transcendent; what an eye for the phylacteries, and want of eye for the eternal noblenesses; sordid loyalty to the prosperous Semblances, and high-treason against the Supreme Fact, such a vote betokens in these natures?
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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All however agree, that no man who ever sat on the bench deserved the imputation of "obduracy" less than Baron Graham.
Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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For left-liberals and conservatives alike, political beliefs derive much of their obduracy from being rooted in morality and self-concept.
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But there are also the white clergy (and rabbi); usually, they were pusillanimous and hesitant to move more than a step or two beyond their conservative members, most of whom supported the egregious Jew-turned-Episcopalian Mayor Henry Loeb, who rivals in obduracy George W. Bush.
Balkinization
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Katherine shrugged her shoulders and lifted her jaw (projecting a steadfast impression of mulish obduracy).
BEHINDLINGS
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And they highlight China's obduracy in the Copenhagen negotiations as evidence that other countries will not cooperate.
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As we all know, because President Obama, UK Foreign Secretary Miliband and the serried ranks of the EU keep telling us, it is Israel’s obduracy which is holding up a resolution of the Middle East impasse.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Mr Obama could respond by railing against Republican obduracy.
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Mr Obama could respond by railing against Republican obduracy.
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Hugo says the sinner is "bound down by obduracy of soul, and by the penalty of future damnation"; the grace of God frees man from the darkness brought on by sin, while the absolution of the priest delivers him from the penalty which sin imposes — "The malice of sin is best described as obduracy of heart, which is first broken by sorrow, that later, in confession, the sin itself, i.e. the penalty of damnation, be remitted.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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I am incensed that the council appears to be issuing a written policy that eliminates any opportunity for discretion and reasonable judgement, and promotes institutional obduracy.
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That despite the obduracy of male politicians with regard to the Women's Bill in Parliament, more women are visible in the political spectrum and in the run up to the forthcoming general elections.
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But it does rather knock on the head the idea that the conflict in the Middle East persists solely because of Israeli obduracy and America's failure to lean on Israel hard enough.
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Katherine shrugged her shoulders and lifted her jaw (projecting a steadfast impression of mulish obduracy ).
BEHINDLINGS
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But the streets, the oldest footprint of the town, remain in so many American cities with surprising obduracy.
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The obduracy and obstinacy of human beings is what enables them to fight for their countries, repel invaders and maintain their solidarity.
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He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness.
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Even so, events could turn against Republican Machiavellians inasmuch as their obduracy is the best thing Democrats have going for them now that Obamamania has all but disappeared.
Andrew Levine: Republican Machiavellians: Scourge of Democrats -- For Tea Partiers, Not So Much
