Rudolf Scharping, former party leader and now defence minister, is accused of ambition and obstinacy.
In the meantime, we get sequestration, permanent campaigns, stagnation, gridlock, and Presidential obstinacy, Congressional obstruction, lost time.
Twice in recent days the president has publicly criticised Republican obstinacy and called for concessions from both sides.
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The obstinacy of the government over a few divisive issues presents a perpetual risk to the north-south peace accord.
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" The statement said al-Shabab was morally obligated to stamp out his "obstinacy.
There are, though, those who criticise Waseige's obstinacy and unwillingness to consider anyone or anything that comes outside his vision.
The same obstinacy that plagues Lithuania's relations with Poland, he says, lies behind politicians' refusal to reverse their mistakes on Jewish issues.
Israelis thought that Mr Barak had bent over backwards to offer a fair deal, only to be let down by blind Palestinian obstinacy.
And this, whether it is motivated by obstinacy, denial or a sober calculation of the strategic stakes in Iraq, is a good thing.
On almost any serious subject, what seems like principled perseverance to one person will seem like obstinacy to those who disagree, and vice versa.
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Mr Steinmeier, who is under pressure from the SPD to demonstrate some economic leadership before the election, has now seized on Ms Merkel's obstinacy as an opportunity.
His obstinacy over the customs union was the last straw.
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In spite of the obstinacy of some in APS management, APS members of good will are supporting the establishment of a politics-free, climate physics study group within the Society.
If a war has no hope of succeeding, continuing to prosecute it at calamitous cost not to your own servicemen but to its supposed beneficiaries in Kosovo begins to look less like courage than wanton obstinacy.
But the dark underside of the aspiration to meritocracy as Michael Young, who coined the word in 1958, foresaw is an assumption that the poor are the way they are because they deserve to be, whether through laziness, obstinacy or just plain stupidity.
With gross domestic product still 3% below its peak, growth flat over the past year and the economy having under-performed even the euro zone over the past five years despite the benefits of a substantial devaluation and a massive program of quantitative easing, many believe that BOE obstinacy has held back the recovery.
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