This kind of obduracy isn't new, but it does seem especially egregious among boomers.
Yet Mr Blix is clear about the main reason why military preparations eventually outpaced fraught diplomacy Iraq's own obduracy.
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.
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.
Mr Wen spent a long time at his press conference defending his record at the climate-change summit in Copenhagen in December, where China was widely accused of obduracy.
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.
The failures of recent years have left me angrier than ever with that system, its adults-first priorities, its obduracy, inertia and greed, as well as its capacity to throw sand into the gears of every effort to set it right.
In his resignation speech, Mr Abbas castigated Israel's government for its obduracy over the settlements, the Americans for letting him down, and the Palestinians' Islamist movement, Hamas, for refusing to accept the terms of a Palestinian unity government proposed by Egypt.
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But on crucial issues Germany still lags, especially by continuing to trade with the Iranians and especially in Afghanistan, where their obduracy is helping to jeopardize the fight against the Taliban and thereby bringing into question the very future of NATO.
But at present obduracy prevails.
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