Obdurate

Ireland, in just their seventh Test and still searching for a first win at this level, were indebted to for launching a recovery with a quickfire 30. Obdurate opener top-scored with 36.

It is high time that Union government leaders observing the situation from New let go of their obdurate attitude.

In this matter of guns, as in so many other topics where public opinion diverges sharply from their own view, Republican legislators remain obdurate.

But obdurate elements of Australia’s Israel lobby accused us of overreacting.

After some impressive performances in the season's early weeks, Sean Dyche's team have not quite been their usual obdurate selves.

And even if the EU side were so obdurate and self-destructive as to turn us down, and to insist on tariffs and checks.

In the meanwhile, the tentacles of bigotry and obscurantism would keep digging in deeper and, with time, we may become that much more obdurate in our refusal to change our perspective, and that much more intolerant to accept diversity in our midst.

Led by an apparently lame but obdurate Owen Farrell, they were composed and effectively extinguished New Zealand's attacking threat through an incredible defensive effort and credit must go to their coaches Eddie Jones and John Mitchell for that.

A minority of the southern Democrat leadership remained obdurate that Northern Democratic legislators would ignore their constituents' opposition to slavery expansion and unite in support of Texas annexation once exposed to sufficient southern pressure.

A Season 1 episode of The Muppet Show (aired on 22 November 1976) featured Rowlf the Dog and Sam the Eagle singing the song, with Sam clearly embarrassed at having to sing the word ' tit ' (also asking the meaning of "obdurate").

Groucho interrupted the song to quiz the audience on the meaning of the word "obdurate".

Now to the Christian, the Jew is the incomprehensibly obdurate man who declines to see what has happened; and to the Jew, the Christian is the incomprehensibly daring man who affirms in an unredeemed world that its redemption has been accomplished.