obdurate in the PONS Dictionary

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Navvies working on railway projects typically continued to work using hand tools, supplemented with explosives (particularly when tunnelling, and to clear obdurate difficulties).
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Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits?
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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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The facility now treats about fifty patients at a time, those with the most obdurate forms of the disease.
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Because they have a right to be obdurate, there being no explicit constitutional proscription against this.
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The expression numantine resistance is occasionally used to refer to particularly obdurate resistance.
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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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But the monk convinces her about the futility and irrationality of such obdurate beliefs.
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Yes, the company is obdurate in its insistence that the removal is unnecessary.
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