Sentences with phrase «not obstinate»

Not an obstinate old has been... and I do mean just that!

Catholicism teaches forgiveness through admission and genuine repentance, not obstinate denial.

Not exact matches

You may want to get some professional advice — especially if the patent examiner seems particularly obstinate — but in many cases the process is generally straightforward and doesn't involve difficult legal principles.

Austin «He punishes habitual obstinate for those who ate fully aware of His presence» So, he'll punish any of you lot who still believe in him, but disobey, but what about the rest of us who don't think he's there?

Islam is not a religion it's a cult with fanatic followers that are illogical, illiterate, rude, obstinate, arrogant, and suicidal as are most cultists.

And... despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, some obstinates continue to believe that their Sky God wrote a series of books.What would their religion be like if they didn't believe this?

I think that the key, among other things, to understanding the opinions and positions of others is imagination.Try to imagine the Muslim who has lost their whole family to «collateral damage», the gay who has lost their family to rejection... let's lay down our obstinate doctrines that are so quick to offer «the only solution that WE can live with» and walk in their shoes, feel their pain and realize that our medicine is not a «one size fits all»....

But triumphalists do not notice these possibilities or else they underestimate them, and so their language and behaviour assume that false tone of self - assurance and superior knowledge which repels people of the present day and makes them distrustful and obstinate towards representatives of the Church's ministry.

Some people can be obstinate but I wouldn't call that the norm.

Now's the time to make justice reign in the academic community and soon all of America by casting out those who are too obstinate or stupid or evil to see what we can all now see with own eyes, what well - intentioned people can't help but know.

As to the claim that creeds impose the will of the elite, Pelikan points out cases — most notably the opposition to Arianism in the century or so after the Council of Nicaea — in which, in John Henry Newman's words, «The Catholic people, in the length and breadth of Christendom, were the obstinate champions of Catholic truth, and the bishops were not.»

SO your certainty is just based on your obstinate posturing, this is your stake in the ground so to speak, and not on anything objective at all.

If he, wonder of wonders, still remains obstinate, then finally resort to: THE FIGURATIVE SYMBOLISM DODGE and confide that sophisticated people like himself recognize that Eris is a Figurative Symbol for an Ineffable Metaphysical Reality and that The Erisian Movement is really more like a poem than like a science and that he is liable to be turned into a Precious Mao Button and Distributed to The Poor in The Region of Thud if he does not get hip.

But God suffers from no such debility; why not, then, place each of us in an illusionary paradise, where we would never have to deal with the real, obstinate, wills of other persons?

I doubt if there ever will be a time when there won't be believers who are obstinate in their belief that God wrote a book and they happen to belong to the only group that interprets it correctly.

How typical of Erasmus it was, he suggested, to object to Luther making assertions: «You censure me for obstinate assertions... But it is not the mark of the Christian to take no delight in assertions... By assertion I mean a constant adhering, affirming, confessing, maintaining, and invincible persevering.»

Are not Nature's countless experiments all variants of a single act of faith, an obstinate feeling of the way towards an outlet leading forward and ever higher?

But the small, i.e., the true Christian ban is this that one must not permit apparent, obstinate sinners to partake of the sacrament and other common acts of the Church, unless they mend their ways and avoid sin.»

He could have stood his father's justice - side and been obstinate, but he could not resist the mercy - side.

He is deluded, obstinate, arrogant, and doesn't possess what is required in the modern era to manage a top team AT the top.

Sadly I believe we are so bad but because we reward mediocrity with huge bonuses, we have a group of yes men that will never question the manager, who is not stubborn, he is obstinate.

With only Kos as senior CB, this obstinate action is going crazy isn't it?

It's not rocket science, these are basic theories / opinions which many think would make us great, but the obstinate one will not do what other want him to because he is obsessed with proving sensible voices wrong by playing decent (but not great) players and playing in a stylish fluid manner, which other teams have worked out and which makes us largely one dimensional.

Its not that he is obstinate — he just wants to move his career forward based on data.

«Funny» is not the word usually used to describe the slow - talking speaker, who is more often deemed «reticent» and sometimes even «obstinate» for his close - to - the - vest, wait - you - out style that has proved equally maddening to both members of the press and his fellow leaders down at the Capitol.

«But I am not going to be like Donald Trump and bring the city on the brink of a government shutdown if someone is obstinate.

You're not just a single c *** but a f *** ing squalid hyperc *** - a 4 - dimensional c *** inside another c *** inside another c ***, a mess of scandalous w *** ery, s *** headed incompetence and obstinate persistence in the face of every bit of evidence of what works, with a face like Michael Gove artificially in - f *** ing - seminating a crackhead's puke and less good policy than the orgasmic grunts of the biannual gangbang of the 1922 Committee.

You also want to make sure they don't suffer from the following: constantly make excuses, excessively egotistical, use unhealthy shortcuts (like drugs), overly competitive, obstinate, always late, bad attitude, talk more than they work out... the list goes on and on.

This is the tough, defiant Ford that became the grim, urban tough guy of Gilda and the calloused cowboy loner of numerous westerns in protean form, not even 25 years old but already with a chip on his shoulder and the obstinate attitude of a guy who has taken care of himself for so long he figures he knows it all.

There's a split second when you start to think you may have to stand up and jump off in order to progress to the next stage of the simulation — and this is where you decide to sit there, motionless, in an obstinate hope that you won't have to actually do that to yourself — before you're suddenly flung back through the expanse of the city and onto a train track.

And in contrast to the adults, the children remain impulsive, obstinate and at times destructive when they don't get their way, especially Shinji's young son, who defiantly pokes holes through the paper walls and methodically eats the scraps in a show of indignation.

Let's hope convincing ed reform foundations and advocates to scale way back on their infatuation with heavy regulation does not require the same effort as moving more obstinate and dim - witted government officials.

While the gearbox isn't a classic example of its type, it works perfectly well in this application and it's arguably more pleasant to use than the slightly obstinate manual in the Twingo GT, while the closer ratios lend a little more urgency to the Smart's acceleration.

They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self - controlled, only obtuse; not self - respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all: liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls.

Working closely with the obstinate - yet - sexy Brady is not an attractive idea to Rachel — although she has to admit that Brady himself is pretty damned attractive.

I'm not being obstinate here; I'm just not that intellectually nimble.

Affenpinschers do have a mind of their own, and without a firm hand can be obstinate and demanding, tossing tantrums or sulking when they don't get their own way.

This breed is not aggressive or dominant by nature, but it can be a little obstinate so it requires a firm and consistent hand in training.

From the demo on show it certainly looks like Dark Souls 2 will be as rewardingly obstinate as Dark Souls, if not more so.

I can't really endorse it personally because its clunky mechanics make me want to gouge my eyes out and I have very little patience for a game that goes out of its way to be purposefully obstinate, but Carl and a whole bunch of critics and consumers alike think it's the mutt's nuts

Here, by way of example, is an explanation of Helen Marten's work: «Whilst their complex references might not be made immediately explicit to the viewer there is something alchemic in the way the materials collide, and ideas are often communicated through the obstinate wilfulness of the finished form.

The obstinate thinking that we (Americans) won't be forced by foreigners to give up our wasteful goodies only saps our creative potential.

If they don't, either because they are obstinate, or because they do not accept the argument given, then the paper will be published.

We're not yet leading the world on fighting climate change, but at least we're not being as willfully obstinate as we had been during past administrations.

And you would have to be pretty obstinate to try and poke holes in peer - reviewed climate science given that McIntyre claims he does not receive a salary signed by Big Oil.

The spokesperson later clarified that Westmoreland didn't intend to call anyone a name and acknowledged later to her that «perhaps he should have said obstinate factor instead and wanted me to reiterate that he did not and would not call another member of Congress an a — hole.»

Confronted with obstinate refusal by nature to comply with climate model predictions / projections, she now has serious doubts and makes it very clear to the ragbag collection of looney warmista that, like it or not, they have a very uncomfortable reality to confront.

These are mid-level professionals who don't have the power or knowledge to sway obstinate members of Congress or masses of voters into advancing stringent climate and energy policy.

This is powerful, though not really news, for those unaware of the aggressiveness and obstinate cultivation of ignorance via conspiracy theory of the denial campaign: «Global warming deniers guilty of attack on science»

I suppose if you go straight from school to university and stay on to do research, you'll never to get experience the obstinate real world where people don't usually get their way by throwing tantrums and calling people names.