How obstinate you are sometimes!

You're not so smart, letting your stubbornness... interfere with the very thing you want.

Jeff Wilson, any young man as stubborn as you are... should be taught a lesson.

He is refractory of Our signs.

For he is an enemy to Our signs!

He is forward unto Our signs

Verily he hath been Unto Our signs a foe.

Verily, he has been stubborn and opposing Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.).

He was stubborn towards Our revelations.

For lo! he hath been stubborn to Our revelations.

He is an obstinate opponent of Our signs.

Surely, he has been disobedient to Our verses.

Indeed, he has been toward Our verses obstinate.

He has been hostile to Our revelations.

He has been stubbornly hostile to Our revelation

For to Our Signs he has been refractory!

Because of her ambition, she can often be stubborn.

This quiet determination irritated Therese and put the finishing touch to her intoxication.

This stubbornness made matters worse when things finally fell apart.

I'm a Dutchman and I know from stubbornness.

Under the circumstances I ultimately wasn't sorry that he refused.

CAPULET How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding?

But, at some point, perseverance becomes emotional stubbornness.

By no means he is stubbornly opposed to Our Signs.

By no means! surely he offers opposition to Our communications.

You wouldn't want anything unfortunate to happen now just because you're stubborn, would you?

Harding often talked over this project with Pencroft, and he found him strangely bent upon undertaking this voyage, for which determination he himself could give no sufficient reason.

Oh, nothing at all, I said, seeing that I was going in opposition to immovable obstinacy.

The blinkered Ethiopian government, in particular, contributes through its obstinacy to the suffering of its own people.

With all due respect, Commissioner, we can no longer accept this absurd obduracy.

Why do you remain pertinaciously perched on my knee, when I have given you notice to quit?

It was wrong of him to eat so much.

So long as he had acted, he had gone straight before him, with the obstinacy and blindness of a brute.

In his furious obstinacy, he still went to Therese, but only to always run against the body of Camille.

And Homais retired, declaring that he could not understand this obstinacy, this blindness in refusing the benefactions of science.

If you really did mark it and you can find that bike... ...your determination will get you another chance.

I am thinking more particularly of permission for a number of demonstrations which moreover have shown by the peaceful course they have taken that South African society does not need to be protected by the declaration of a state of emergency, which makes any national dialogue impossible.

I was wrong to attempt to deceive you but I feared a stubbornness that exists in your character. I feared early instilled prejudice I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences.

The father seemed so gripped once again with his stubbornness that he forgot about the respect which he always owed to his renters.

If a majority of the French come to believe that a course of action is being imposed on them from outside and by Germany, no less! they will respond with traditional Gallic stubbornness.

These two talked, but invariably, with an obstinacy of which he must have been unaware, Meaulnes always came back to the marvels of the old days.

But I cannot put souls into chains without hearing them good, they'r stiff.

Californians, of course, won't be disenfranchised, but their willfulness threatens to yield a wayward and irresponsible form of state politics.

The Obama administration has been accused of wanting the agreement too much, of being unwilling to walk away.

Plan for the 1863 campaign and initial movements All of the Bayou Operations were failures, but Grant was known for his stubborn determination and would not quit.