obstinance

• “Your obstinance is going to doom this recall effort to failure.”

  Tom Potter et ux. working for Adams recall (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Grace

• “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.”

  Has the Wild Rumpus Begun Yet?

• “Vindicated for their obstinance, the House leadership will have even less reason to negotiate.”

  The Huffington Post: David Paul: Debt Ceiling Battle Offers House Republicans Untold Leverage

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: New York Times Provides The Ultimate Inside-The-Bubble Guide To Economic Crisis

• “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.”

  Clinton Foundation's 2009 donor list revealed

• “There was the chaotic management shuffle at Bear Stearns, the stubborn obstinance of”

  The Wall Street Journal: For BP, the Crisis Has Become One of Leadership

• “Due to Coleman's obstinance, progressives have raised over $140,000 to put toward assisting progressive candidates for Congress against the very Republicans whose Party leaders and funders are keeping Coleman's appeals going.”

  The Huffington Post: Senate Guru: NormDollar.com: Provide Norm Coleman with the Knock-Out Punch

• “There is tension; there is obstinance in my voice.”

  The Huffington Post: Rebecca Campbell and Nicole Walker: Silvana Straw Brings her Everything to 7 Rings

• “If it weren't for whining and obstinance the conservatives would have nothing to say.”

  Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion

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