Meanings of great obstinacy in English

If she once takes hold of anything, she does it with great obstinacy.

His troops are good, well found, and fight with great obstinacy.

The city of Munster being an object of importance, was disputed with great obstinacy.

The battle was fought with great obstinacy, and the carnage on both sides was very considerable.

The fight on the river had been more severe, and had been maintained with great obstinacy.

Both sides fought with great obstinacy, but the nearer we approached Lemberg the harder the struggle became.

These resisted with great obstinacy.

He fought however with great obstinacy, and in a manner which proved how much his ambition was wounded by being conquered.

These warlike Propagandistes, however, do not always convince without experiencing resistance, and ignorance sometimes opposes, with great obstinacy, the progress of truth.

Here both parties contended with great obstinacy, and were mutually wounded, from the towers by stones and other missiles, and from below by arrows.

The French still defended the burning houses and the church with great obstinacy, till, finding themselves completely surrounded, they surrendered at about eight o'clock.

Teresa supported her own assertions with great obstinacy, and a dispute ensued, in which her mistress was heated into some extravagant commendations of our adventurer.

Nowhere had the rebels fought with greater obstinacy or gathered in greater numbers.

This did not alter his plans, but it engendered a greater obstinacy in him.

The natives, however, still fought with the greatest obstinacy; but the great square was at last reached.

The Turks defended themselves with the greatest obstinacy, and discharged showers of poisoned arrows upon the crusaders.