How To Use Obdurate In A Sentence
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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
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That will be grist to McGeechan's mill after an afternoon in which his side struggled to wear down obdurate but limited opponents.
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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
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They are, after all, award-winning teachers, however obdurate a pupil the federal government is proving.
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But I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits.
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To avoid further childishness Leonora took refuge in stony, obdurate silence.
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I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits.
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But, how can one discuss nonsemantic functions in language that is obdurately semantic?
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Some members of the committee are likely to prove obdurate on this matter.
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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
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The union remains obdurate that any redundancies must be voluntary.
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the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart
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Over the next few weeks, Rosemary discovered that several other people had planned to open small shops in Camembert, only to give up after encountering obdurate bureaucracy.
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He also defended his seizure of white-owned farms, saying the program pitted the majority against the white minority he described as obdurate and backed by the British.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.
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Some members of the committee are likely to prove obdurate on this matter.
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'Philip,' he said to the obdurate door,'I'm going upstairs to look at my e-mail on Mark's computer.
LOST BOY LOST GIRL
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Obdurate and immovable, they stood, no less than the stock from which they had come.
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There is no doubting their commitment, however, and they will continue to offer obdurate opposition for the rest of the challengers.
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The President remains obdurate on the question of tax cuts.
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The President remains obdurate on the question of tax cuts.
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It has some bearing on the meaning of one of the great historical novels that remains canonical in the most obdurate of ways, Alessandro Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi.
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The struggle shall be waged only against a few obdurate landlords after they have been isolated.
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Mr. Hard-Heart, thou art here indicted by the name of Hard-Heart (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul), for that thou didst most desperately and wickedly possess the town of Mansoul with impenitency and obdurateness; and didst keep them from remorse and sorrow for their evils, all the time of their apostasy from and rebellion against the blessed King Shaddai.
The Holy War
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Rooted in mystery but set in a cruel, obdurately materialistic world, "Au hasard Balthazar" parallels Balthazar's trials with the downward trajectory of the girl who loves him, Marie Anne Wiazemsky.
Salvation at the Forum
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I perhaps sound like an obdurate woman lacking the maternal instincts worthy of such a precious gift as a child but nothing could be further from the truth.
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That always was obvious enough but post-9/11 realities have made it stark, such that only the obdurately self-blinded and the gifted casuist can deny it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Bit of Perspective on the Use of Feces and Toilets in Protests:
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In freeing women from corsets and dissolving the fortified grandeur of the obdurate, hyperbolic silhouette, Poiret effected a concomitant revolution in dressmaking, one that shifted the emphasis away from the skills of tailoring to … the skills of draping.
The King Is Dead
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They were driven out of all human society, and forced to converse with the beasts of the field, to hide themselves in dens and caves, and make their complaint to rocks and rivers, not more obdurate than their enemies.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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He rushes to say that he knows that there is money out there waiting to be collected at several homes because he has spoken with those persons but there are still some obdurate recalcitrants withholding the annual E65.
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Several obdurate facts/differences remain, preventing a compromise solution.
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You won't hear American announcers call an "obdurate defense," a terrific pass a "rapier thrust" or a tying goal the "equalizer.
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Of course he had been, and perhaps remained, obdurate on one rather important point.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Two minutes into second half the visitors' obdurate defence finally cracked, for the first time in 280 minutes.
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As decreed by what was called the Holy Office at that time, the dwellers in Hell included those it had condemned for obdurate heresy.
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Other paintings in the show juxtapose cinematic effects with sections that insist upon the obdurate flatness of the picture's surface.
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He'd argued as persuasively as he knew how, but they'd remained obdurate.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Meanwhile, time alone probably will not have unevolved the obdurate and ancient instinct that all humans bear.
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I was extraordinarily mistrustful of District Attorney Rice ' s sudden change from obdurate obstructer to newfound champion of justice " during her campaign, said Friedman attorney Ron Kuby .
Review Slated for Abuse Case
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No one but the most obdurate can fail to acknowledge that the main political problem that has convulsed this beautiful State is still a long way from being resolved.
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Some people still obdurately cling to their factions, and a fair number of Party members, including some veterans, hold factionalism higher than Party spirit.
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Some members of the committee are likely to prove obdurate on this matter.
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He also defended his seizure of white-owned farms, saying the program pitted the majority against an "obdurate" racial minority which he alleged was "supported and manipulated" by Blair.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.
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This old man wears a hat, a thumbed and napless and yet an obdurate hat, which has never adapted itself to the shape of his poor head.
Little Dorrit
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We're pacing one of the rivers here, tea-colored with a pintail duck on it and geese in a up against the clouds and rocks and tumbleweed, everything looking obdurate.
Rodeo Days
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George passed from life with the kind of obdurate resistance and strength of spirit with which he had lived.
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The union remains obdurate that any redundancies must be voluntary.
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In favouring the obdurate option, United cramped Celtic for room and impressively limited their effectiveness.
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His image as an obdurate hardman culminated in the notorious case where he bit reporter Frank Oliver's nose.
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Lovely, to be sure, but if it wasn't accepted as being classic, it would upset those more obdurate imbibers with its bravura.
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Several obdurate facts/differences remain, preventing a compromise solution.
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One Cape Town newspaper headline screamed: ‘Just say yes, Mr President’ but Mbeki remained obdurate.
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Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.
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In each the primitive, sometimes bestial is joined obdurately to the modern and sophisticated.
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But for all his reputation as a pragmatist, there's a steely and obdurate side to him that comes to the surface every so often.
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Those fields didn't miraculously appear there - they were lovingly hewn from the obdurate landscape by men like Willie Corduff and his ancestors.
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In such circumstances it would, I think, place a serious fetter on negotiations between other parties if they knew that everything that passed between them would ultimately have to be revealed to the one obdurate litigant.
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The men wearing numbers 5, 6 and 35 make up a defensive triumvirate as formidable, aggressive, powerful and obdurate as any in the club's history.
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The husband looked up from poking the washing machine with his screwdriver to suggest I was being obdurate.
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There was an obdurate streak in Richard, Sophie had learnt.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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But with Liverpool likely to field a weakened team to face an obdurate Burnley side buoyed by back-to-back wins and clean sheets, it may not be such a foregone conclusion.
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It is as solemn and obdurate as the field of stelae - immovable and unforgettable.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Between them, McGrath and Gilchrist seem to make up two halves of an Australian equation - McGrath the laconic and obdurate inland bushie, Gilchrist the more talkative fellow from a sub-tropic coast.
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Its best to get in reasonably early as it can be fiendishly difficult to get into, and the doorstaff can be unyielding and obdurate, despite your silver-tongued attempts to gain access.
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Several obdurate facts/differences remain, preventing a compromise solution.
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Geithner plainly has no patience for what he describes as the obdurate unwillingness of colleagues to subordinate their desire for superficial impact to the larger vision.
Inside Man
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No one but the most obdurate can fail to acknowledge that the main political problem that has convulsed this beautiful State is still a long way from being resolved.
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In favouring the obdurate option, United cramped Celtic for room and impressively limited their effectiveness.
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The President remains obdurate on the question of tax cuts.
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Tetlow, chopfallen but obdurate, got himself speedily out of sight.
Grain of Dust.
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This was Australia at their obdurate best, probing for every run and every sign of weakness, inching towards respectability and a dangerously competitive total on a pitch of uneven bounce.
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In their valuation of the distribution of grace, theologians distinguish somewhat sharply between ordinary sinners (among whom they include habitual and relapsing sinners) and those sinners whose intellect is blinded, and whose heart is hardened, the so-called obdurate sinners (obcaecati et indurati, impaenitentes).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The Egyptian polity, remarkably obdurate for the past quarter of a century and deeply rooted in authoritarian structures established more than 50 years ago, is apparently coming apart at the seams.
