obdurate

How To Use obdurate In A Sentence

• He thrilled even now at the recollection of the Hadendowas leaping and stabbing through the breach of McNeil's zareba six miles from Suakin; he recalled the obdurate defence of the Berkshires, the steadiness of the Marines, the rallying of the broken troops. The Four Feathers
• That will be grist to McGeechan's mill after an afternoon in which his side struggled to wear down obdurate but limited opponents.
• She said the LRC was extremely proud of its achievements with the community that included a victory in the Constitutional Court, against "obdurate" opposition by government. ANC Daily News Briefing
• They are, after all, award-winning teachers, however obdurate a pupil the federal government is proving.
• But I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits.
• To avoid further childishness Leonora took refuge in stony, obdurate silence.
• I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits.
• But, how can one discuss nonsemantic functions in language that is obdurately semantic?
• Some members of the committee are likely to prove obdurate on this matter.
• Under the impression that I might be required to set to work in any town on my route, like any travelling tinker, I had packed in my knapsack my best scoopers and an upright drillstock; and these tools, while they added to its weight, presented so many obdurate points of resistance to my back. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France