a dictator who "obdurately" refused to change his ways. ❋ Unknown (2003)
However, if the Commission considers the case unusually important, or if the government obdurately ignores the recommendations, the Commission can bring the case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I was half-way through Vanish With the Rose before I realized that the person I had picked to be the murderer was obdurately refusing to kill anybody. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I first read this story while obdurately at the beach with a friend on a cold, wet day. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Kristin M. Jones (2012)
A rudderless bipartisan Congress is no less culpable for the decline, and will be no less responsible for the aftermath than an administration obdurately steaming for the shoals. ❋ Unknown (2011)
When a nation-state obdurately chooses not to control its own banking system, it has committed itself to a course that can lead only to national suicide. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Spain are struggling to create chances and Portugal are defending obdurately. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Later, back in the penthouse, Penn remembered that the star was obdurately set against her, but was outvoted by him and the two writers. ❋ PETER BISKIND (2010)
Often mocking Mr. Hammond's inveterate penchant for top-heavy metaphor and obdurately churlish writing style, the blog once stated that enduring Mr. Hammond's histrionic syntax is tantamount to "getting waterboarded" by someone "under the influence of habitually inhaled paint thinner." ❋ Room Eight (2010)
When Tony Hayward, British Petroleum president, recently met with Congress, he obdurately refused to accept blame for the mess in the gulf of Mexico. ❋ Unknown (2010)
With Black Swan, the Harvard-educated Aronofsky ascends the ladder of high art, a change in direction from his prior, obdurately blue-collar outings: the wildly successful The Wrestler, and the druggy and disturbing Requiem for a Dream. ❋ Debra Levine (2010)
Standing alone, but obdurately, on the other side is the Metropolitan Water Reclamation district, a shadowy elected body independent of the City, County, and State in its management of the regional water system. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It has spread down Spanish streets on the torsos of hundreds of thousands of fans wearing the shirt of the national soccer team, La Roja or "The Red", and threatens to over-run even the most obdurately separatist corners of the country. ❋ Unknown (2010)