Translations for „obdurate“ in the English » German Dictionary

ob·du·rate [ˈɒbdjərət, Am ˈɑ:bdʊrɪt, -djʊ-] ADJ pej form

1. obdurate (stubborn):

obdurate

hartnäckig

obdurate person

sture Person

to remain obdurate

hartnäckig [o. stur] bleiben

to be obdurate on doing sth

darauf beharren [o. CH, A meist bestehen] , etw zu tun

2. obdurate (difficult):

obdurate problem

hartnäckig

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

obdurate person

sture Person

to remain obdurate

hartnäckig [o. stur] bleiben

to be obdurate on doing sth

darauf beharren [o. CH, A meist bestehen] , etw zu tun

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The five-bowler theory, which the team management stuck to with almost obdurate zeal, has all of a sudden been abandoned.

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The vast debt market's tectonic plate grinds away as a fault line, against that of the equally, obdurate equity market's tectonic plate.

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Although obdurate in nature, she is actually very kind-hearted.

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Almost any suggestion that non-compulsory voting could have merit was met with fervent and obdurate rejection.

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But the monk convinces her about the futility and irrationality of such obdurate beliefs.

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The election itself, which has already taken shape, is ample evidence of the lack of reform, indeed an obdurate opposition to it by entrenched interests.

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Others objected with obdurate defiance to the concept of voluntary relegation.

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The facility now treats about fifty patients at a time, those with the most obdurate forms of the disease.

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But such a claim, given in shrill poetry, invites us to imagine that soon or late we must give answer for obdurate self-regard.

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One should not be obdurate in being blissfully ignorant and a fool.

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