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stubborn English

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stubborn

Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate. Hard and not easy to handle. He is very stubborn about his beliefs. Jack is always stubborn at the dinner table.

stubborn

tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield (= refractory) not responding to treatment a stubborn infection a refractory case of acne stubborn rust stains

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Simple sentences

Tom is stubborn.
Tom is very stubborn.
He's stubborn.
I'm not as stubborn as I used to be.
Your argument is not any more convincing than that of my stubborn father.
She's a stubborn girl.
She's so stubborn. I bet if she ever gets reincarnated, she'd be a bacteria capable of living in empty space.
He is stubborn as a mule.
She is stubborn.
I can't figure out whether you're stubborn or stupid.
Don't be so stubborn.
As he gets older, he's getting more and more stubborn.
I'm stubborn.
I can be just as stubborn as you.
Mary is too stubborn to apologize.
I have never come across such a stubborn person.
I never thought he was all that stubborn.
You've become old and stubborn.
He's getting more and more stubborn with age.
You're stubborn.

Movie subtitles

Stubborn little buggers, they are.
He's stubborn and unbending and will be so at the throne itself.
Because you've always been a stubborn idiot.
I come from a long line of stubborn idiots.
That one bud, sir, it seems rather stubborn.
I can't stay here with this stubborn Mariphasa.
George, don't be stubborn.
You're just being stubborn.
You might as well come without being stubborn. because I'm going to drag you in.
Your granddad is stubborn, and you're stubborn.
He's stubborn, the old man is.
Stubborn?
If he can be stubborn, so can I.
Oh, you are like a scared little animal. Do not be so stubborn. You will soon forget about that bandit!
Oh, you stubborn jackass.
Unless you're stubborn and insist on it. Come on, get out!
Are you going to behave like an obedient wife. or must I continue to treat you like a stubborn child?
If these other traitors are as stubborn as you. I may sit here till the next assizes.
The English people will go so far, Capt. Blood. and then they get up on their stubborn hind legs.
My dear Clara, All winter long I've observed your attempts To teach David. He grows ever more sullen and stubborn.
Women aren't that stubborn.
I like being stubborn where he's concerned.
Spell it. George, don't be stubborn. Susan loves you.
You're a stubborn bastard.
He is a very stubborn person, I assure you.
I come from a long line of stubborn idiots!
Stubborn old git.
Spell it. George, don't be stubborn.
So stubborn!
Stubborn or not, I stay.
You're a stubborn cuss, but I like you.
Jack Tyndall, you're the most stubborn, ornery, mule-headed.
You're very stubborn.

News and current affairs

And he was stubborn: once he had made a decision - even, or rather especially, if it was glaringly wrong and stupid - he would never revisit it.
The EU's smaller countries, in particular, are furious with France over its stubborn refusal to play by the EU's deficit spending rules.
Japanese reactions reveal an extraordinary degree of stubborn self-righteousness.
Brazil, too, is suffering from slow growth, not to mention stubborn inflation and mounting deficits.
The BoJ and the BoE are following suit, putting even more pressure on the eurozone, where a stubborn ECB would rather kill any chance of recovery for the PIIGS than do more QE, ostensibly owing to fears of a rise in inflation.
In fact, the agreement, which alleviates much of the economic pressure on the Iranian regime, is a result of Russia's success in delaying international sanctions against Iran and its stubborn refusal to tighten them further.
After all, modern economies are stable and stubborn things. Market systems are resilient webs that offer the best possible incentives to people to make deals and use resources productively.
But the stubborn inertia of authoritarian regimes only encourages radicalization, so there is a clear need for a gradual process of liberalization.
Once formulated through negotiations conducted at the political center, where Western democracies have long been anchored, policymaking is increasingly shaped by stubborn forces on the extreme left and right.
Liberalization of agriculture - long a stubborn holdout in international trade negotiations - is noteworthy.
Rather, the stubborn complexities of the situation are reduced to a stark struggle between absolute power and absolute powerlessness, the archetypal oppressor and archetypal oppressed.
When a stubborn teenager went up against the mighty lottery authority with its army of auditors and inspectors and initial alibis, this individual, not the system, was the clear winner of the public's admiration.
Yet, from another point of view, dialogue prevails over war and the stubborn defense of what one believes to be his identity, because it brings us closer to the vocation of humanity.
Inflation is too stubborn to be tackled without a coordinated set of fiscal and monetary policies.
It was about standing up to the Zionist enemy, the high-tech crusader whose military superiority can be defeated only by stubborn resistance.
Yet when all this was done, certain stubborn obstacles to equal participation remained.
After all, modern economies are stable and stubborn things.
But increasing individualism - a focus on one's own ambitions and economic prosperity - in many countries poses a stubborn obstacle to realizing this vision.
Republican underperformance remains a stubborn fact even when the Great Depression and World War II are left out of the analysis (in the fond hope that they will prove to have been unique experiences).

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