How To Use obduracy In A Sentence
- Mr Obama could respond by railing against Republican obduracy.
- 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
- 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.
- The obduracy and obstinacy of human beings is what enables them to fight for their countries, repel invaders and maintain their solidarity.
- But the streets, the oldest footprint of the town, remain in so many American cities with surprising obduracy.
- Katherine shrugged her shoulders and lifted her jaw (projecting a steadfast impression of mulish obduracy ). BEHINDLINGS
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
