But similar problems have dotted the US for years, often lingering stubbornly.
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Inflation remained stubbornly above official targets in every month of last year.
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Years had passed, but the editors remained stubbornly committed to their question.
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That's why oil companies are fighting for it so stubbornly, Poletayev said.
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Yet in Ohio, despite the intense effort, two different realities stubbornly persist.
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But nothing happened; the cows obstinately refused to step down the plank.
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Only they were obstinately traveling the wrong road in search of it.
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This the Government obstinately refused to admit; and meanwhile time was passing.
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And in spite of her fatigue she obstinately followed the procession afterwards.
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In the next place, they were obstinately resolute against all material concessions.
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And why does this involve you? Tachyon's mouth tightened mulishly.
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This will teach you what comes of acting mulishly.
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Protest was unavailing; the lieutenant was mulishly stubborn.
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Or perhaps he was just being mulishly dense?
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They are everywhere -circled and dug in, or circling mulishly in search of a crusade.
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Alec Stewart, cussedly admirable stalwart though he may have been over the years, is now 40.
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Park was often described as "his own man," being too cussedly independent to serve as anyone's greenkeeper or lesson-teacher.
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As someone who still remains at times cussedly loyal to an old manual typewriter, I recoil from such modern and impersonal traits.
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"See here, pardner, you act most cussedly like a man keeping watch on me."
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"You needn't be so cussedly offensive, need you?"
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And yet Gordon Brown is pig-headedly pursuing a third runway just to try and prove a political point.
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He knows in his heart that the Ministry are pig-headedly wrong, and that we are in the right.
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Clark was advised to kill one or two of the deer, but he pig-headedly refused: and by the beginning of summer they were all dead.
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It is so immeasurably more unpleasant to be frightful than to see that which is so, that I'm afraid my sympathies remain rather pig-headedly one-sided.
Uso de obdurately em inglês
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Somehow they weren't clear enough, and the path remained obdurately in place.
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He tried again and again, but my pupils remained obdurately small.
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Cary tried to shake my resolution, but I was obdurately silent.
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But still she held Mr. Bellingham's arm, obdurately refusing to dance.
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Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych has so far obdurately refused to bow to EU pressure.
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For the rest of the drive he sat obdurately silent.
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The convention had obdurately refused, week after week, to pass the ordinance of secession.
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Her own car, meanwhile, obdurately reposed in its garage.
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The peddler pressed his goods, Mrs. Sharpe obdurately declined.
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He said obdurately, Your paternalistic guidance, given an uncontrolled competitive system, doesn't always work out.
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This third part is a much less obdurately resisting factor: it often ends by giving way.
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But Azazel persisted obdurately in his sin of leading mankind astray by means of sensual allurements.
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He cast a swift glance and stopped obdurately.
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She stressed "I'll decide" obdurately but she had in principle made up her mind.
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To go herself would be futile, when he had so obdurately shut his door against her.
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Mrs. Groome alone had set her face obdurately against any change in the personnel of the eighties.