obstinance

IPA: ˈɑbstʌnʌns

Examples of "obstinance" in Sentences

Your obstinance is going to doom this recall effort to failure.
Vindicated for their obstinance, the House leadership will have even less reason to negotiate.
I wish the GOP would get over their obstinance and work with the White House and in both houses of Congress to do the same.
As the confessional wends its way around the circle and begins to conclude, the girls anxiously wipe away their tears, and take up their obstinance once again as thoughts of their parents waiting outside the door begin to encroach upon the fragile intimacy of the classroom.
When Max repeatedly butts his head against the real world and runs through the dark night streets in his filthy wolf costume, a thudding foreign yelp-chanting playing underneath, I remembered that sense of unencumbered emotion in childhood and how foreign the materiality and obstinance of the real world and grownup interactions were.
But somehow the paper of record wrote what was supposed to be a definitive article on how the Obama Administration plans to fix the economy without once mentioning that part of the economy, housing, that has traditionally led recoveries but that, partly because of the obstinance of Obama's economic team, continues to drag down the recovery.