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  • But frankly, I have a tendency to bullheadedly stay focues on the project until I can figure my way through.

    Snip, snip, cut, cut . . . back to the drawing board at SF Novelists 2009

  • And a good part of the blame goes to an "aloof" president (so says the Manchester Union Leader) who bullheadedly stayed on vacation two days after the storm hit (so says the Washington Times) and still hasn't been able to get his sea legs 5 days after the storm hit.

    09/02/2005 2005

  • But the Geneva Convention requires individualized hearings before a "competent tribunal" to determine POW status, and the Administration has bullheadedly refused to provide any of the war-on-terrorism detainees with such a hearing.

    Enemy Americans 2004

  • But the Geneva Convention requires individualized hearings before a "competent tribunal" to determine POW status, and the Administration has bullheadedly refused to provide any of the war-on-terrorism detainees with such a hearing.

    Enemy Americans 2004

  • Dick Cheney, vowing bullheadedly to move full speed ahead on Iraq no matter what the voters decided.

    11/11/2006 2006

  • He continues to bullheadedly refuse to apologize for all the miscalculations that have been made since, at every turn along the way, in that illegal war.

    Dear World 2006

  • And he was just as stupidly, bullheadedly determined not to give it up.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • "This is different," Jack Holloway argued, bullheadedly.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • Most of what Sun Tzu writes about is really basic, but it is amazing how many times generals neglect his easy advice, and bullheadedly persist in unwise courses of action.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page David Merkel 2010

  • "This is not the case of a horse-and-buggy company bullheadedly insisting that good times are around the corner despite the mass appeal of the automobile," Griesbach wrote.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

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