This kind of obduracy isn't new, but it does seem especially egregious among boomers.

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The Democrats' top brass blame the party's failings on Republican obduracy and trickery.

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He has, lament many in Brussels, shown the same obduracy ever since.

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Without American leadership, crucial in all previous rounds, other countries' reluctance to liberalise, most notably the European Union's obduracy over agriculture, is unlikely to be overcome.

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From the start, the administration appears to have underestimated the obduracy of Mr Milosevic, and to have deluded itself into believing that the Kosovo question could be solved at relatively little cost.

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But at present obduracy prevails.

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