length of obstinacy.

Against such obstinacy, even the gods have no power.

Merkel s now legendary obstinacy eventually might have to succumb to the imperatives of politics.

You're a dunderheaded lump of obstinacy... but I have taken a fancy to you, and I decline to let you kill yourself.

When he was conveniently involved in a naval disaster which arose from a combination of natural obstinacy and a certain confusion of mind.

These efforts have not been successful, due solely to the obstinacy of Mr. Savimbi, who says quot Yes quot one day and quot No quot the next.

We strongly support the introduction of additional elements into the peace process to overcome the risk of stagnation created by the continuing obstinacy of the Bosnian Serbs.

I admired his passionate obstinacy, his determination to push through all the bureaucratic red tape to get to work, and he laughed, and he said, I'm stubborn, but I think what's more important is my passionate optimism.

And, finally, the whole effort agreed upon by the international community to seek an acceptable solution through the Contact Group apos s plan is simply doomed to failure because, quite obviously, of the constant defiance and obstinacy of the Serbs.

In the preparation of that document, the views of the Spanish commissioners were defeated by the obstinacy of the United States commissioners, who divided the inhabitants of Puerto Rico into the native inhabitants of the ceded territories and those born in Spain.

Merkel s now legendary obstinacy eventually might have to succumb to the imperatives of politics. It is one thing to ignore European Commission President José Manuel Barroso s call for a more flexible economic policy, and quite another to dismiss out of hand the powerful message coming from French and Greek voters.

(a) The decision adopted by the Committee owing to the obstinacy of the United States, Great Britain and France is a high handed, discriminatory measure that is devoid of any logical or legal basis and must be deemed a flagrant transgression of the letter and the spirit of Security Council resolution 748.

The adoption of Security Council resolution 864 (1993) on 15 September 1993 has served to put Jonas Savimbi on notice that the United Nations will no longer allow his obstinacy and prevarication to continue to thwart the will of the Angolan people, whose hopes for peace and an opportunity to improve their lives have been so rudely shaken by his greed for power.

Aeneas Sylvius, say they, after giving a very circumstantial account of one contested with great obstinacy by a great and small species on the trunk of a pear tree, adds that this action was fought in the pontificate of Eugenius the Fourth, in the presence of Nicholas Pistoriensis, an eminent lawyer, who related the whole history of the battle with the greatest fidelity.

How will the Bosnian Serbs be able to carry out political negotiations with the other interested parties, if they maintain such irascible obstinacy? Benin is relieved to hear of the decision by the Belgrade authorities to accept the peace plan and to close the frontiers of their country with a view to respecting the arms embargo decided upon by the Security Council in its resolution 713 (1991).