Persistence

Well, it's a monstrous price, and i've had to pay it because of your obstinacy.

Nabi Youssfou gives a possible answer

I've got my stubbornness from my father.

I tried to repel it, but it would return.

The English people will go so far, Capt. Blood... and then they get up on their stubborn hind legs.

I see no further prospect of compromise, because the Council President himself has not even included in his com promise proposals the sole demand Parliament has made to the Council, namely that the maximum rate should be increased, but thinks he can talk with us about something quite different, a negative reserve, which is not on the table at all.

Incredible how stubborn the human body can be when it comes to survival.

We must' keep this interest alive, and future presidencies must keep working towards this goal.

Their resilience has paid peace dividends.

We must continue to work towards it with perseverance.

He didn't depart from his usual military stubbornness

It was her single minded determination which has led to action to curb cereal output.

I love your courage and stubbornness so much that I could forget... the best wife a man ever had.

Only the legal advisers to multinationals could demonstrate such stubbornness.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to thank Mrs Pack for her persistent efforts.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

That, together with his stubbornness and his fierce independence... ...served to isolate him from the other boys.

We will doggedly continue to raise the case of Tibet with the Chinese authorities.

There was now a silent persistence in the face of this exhibition of force which exasperated the miners' pride.

Panama is well aware of the persistence and stubbornness of the military in not accepting any compromise.

One day's delay, she observed, would be of small importance and her mother was too happy to be quite so obstinate as usual.

It was you who killed Camille, repeated Therese with such desperate obstinacy that she made Laurent lose his head.

First and foremost, we reject its stubborn promotion of wage policies that are suitable to the maintaining of wage moderation .

Therefore, I would like to make those people who wish to stick to the 150 gramme level aware of what their actions will lead to should they pursue that particular policy.

This is what forms the basis of the European agricultural model, the recognition of which we must forcefully promote on the international stage.

Far from experiencing any uneasiness, as formerly, at the kisses which his ladylove showered on him, he now sought her embraces with the obstinacy of a famished animal.

Your treatment of your wives... your neglect of your children... and, above all, the depraved insistence... that they be as tyrannical and unloving as you are yourself.

What is to happen if as a result of its obstinacy the whole food programme gets out of control and a further state of emergency arises?

In that sense I cannot understand the insistence of the US, who continually talk about the suspension of our own regulation.

Through his slow and sustained pressure he lowers her defenses by refusing to accept her insistence on leaving.

I think that, in this sense, the fight against accidents at work should be one involving constant determination and constant courage from everyone.

We do not at all deny that with this report there has at last been a reduction in the initial exaggerated claims

If our negotiators have to make a strategic choice, their choice has to be in favour of agriculture in the Community.

But it is not a reference which we have defined and to which we are too stubbornly attached and which cannot be changed.

Intensified efforts by Israeli authorities to suppress the intifadah has led to further deterioration in the economic and social conditions of people in the occupied Palestinian territories.

He fought in vain against the setting up of special tribunals, or commissions, to try prisoners charged with political offences, and for his persistence in the case of the brothers Louis and Michel de Marillac he was suspended in 1631, and ordered to appear at Fontainebleau in his own defence.

I wish to thank Mr Meijer, the rapporteur, for pursuing this basic idea with, if I may say so, a certain stubbornness, as this issue of community decision making is an important point.

We will have to have staying power, and I do not know whether human rights really are violated more frequently today than in the past.

I assure you that the Danes and the Folketing do not wish to be obstinate or impolite in refusing to budge on this point.

The obstinacy of the main federalist groups in pursuing their adoption come what may shows exactly how far the law is respected in the Europe they are building.

M. de Galais, crouched in one corner with his back to us, is there in his socks, searching with tragic obstinacy amongst a confusion of drawers he has pulled out of a cupboard.

I am convinced of the personal and political commitment of Commissioner Vitorino and the College of Commissioners to this undertaking, something that they have demonstrated on several occasions.

It has persisted in refusing to implement resolutions 706 (1991) and 712 (1991), a violation which implies a double catastrophe since it harms both Iraqis and non Iraqis.

At the same time, the so called Convention which is drafting a Charter of Fundamental Rights for the European Union is stubbornly refusing to take this principle into consideration.