Sentences with phrase «obdurate state»

Rocks represent matter at its most obdurate state, while ideas transcend matter altogether.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is standing by his renewed advocacy for a law that would allow undocumented immigrants to tap into financial assistance for college despite obdurate opposition from state Senate Republicans.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is standing by his renewed advocacy for the DREAM Act, a law that would allow undocumented immigrants to tap into financial assistance for college, despite obdurate opposition from state Senate Republicans.

So he sexes up his narrative by presenting it as a battle between the «short, professorial looking» Emanuel, a «nuanced and sophisticated» man who talks in complete sentences, and the obdurate William Gray of Colorado State University, «a towering figure of American hurricane science,» who has for many years produced remarkably accurate forecasts of the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season and who repeatedly and loudly denies — in congressional hearings and everywhere else — that humans have any role in climate change.