Sentences with phrase «obstinate in»

Telltale signs of pointed decision - making are everywhere apparent but the show is obstinate in its refusal to reveal the reasons for those decisions.

Al - Hajj sura 22: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful And yet among men there are such as dispute about Allah, without knowledge, and follow every evil one obstinate in rebellion!

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.

The bigger companies remain obstinate in Toronto because of the involvement of a third party, Australia's BAI, which has a mandate from the TTC to roll out Wi - Fi and cellular capability.

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.

«Buy, hold and suffer,» The Globe and Mail scoffed in a September 2005 article that painted Lee - Chin as obnoxious and obstinate, likening him to Donald Trump.

Pope John Paul II delivered a terrific blow to the Castro government's obstinate status quo when he gave a public mass in Havana, Cuba in 1999.

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?

â $ œA most obstinate misconception associated with the gospel of Jesus Christ is that the gospel is welcome in this world.

Why are you so obstinate about defending the Christian «right» to live in unrighteousness?

In chapter 48 v 4 He says» for I know how stubborn and obstinate you are.

Gabriel Marcel, the French «neo-Socratic» philosopher, has said, «The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Then you answer and if you reject saving atonement,, if you walk along and refuse to let the Lord, Master, to sanctify your flesh, if you walk in obstinate rejection of God's ways, you may be in trouble.

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»....

Its utterances will necessarily either be in danger of being contradicted by obstinate «old believers» (such as happened also in Montanism, Novatianism, Donatism down reactionary Jansenism and Integralism) or of being falsified by a mentality which betrays the spirit of Christ, the folly of the cross and the courage to contradict a world lying in the Evil One by cheap «adaptation».

From their point of view, their lives are threatened because of one obstinate and stubborn Jew in Susa.

Israel's persistent, obstinate hope in the ultimate fulfillment of the promise is itself an act of faith, made defiantly in the face of her own repeated abandonment of faith.

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.»

On the other hand, there's no virtue in being obstinate if and when mistakes are made!

«The two great Empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu... have... been engaged in a most obstinate War for six and thirty Moons past.

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.

He was unable to impose a solution because, he said, in a letter to the Pope: «The Protestants are more unyielding and more obstinate than ever — while the Catholics are generally lukewarm and but little inclined to lend a hand in the forcible conversion of those who have fallen away... the welfare of Christendom absolutely requires a Council.»

In the face of threats to assimilate Christians, Dalits, and Adivasis into a homogeneous Hindu identity, as well as the violent attacks against these minorities, how can Christian theology tap into the energy that fuels the obstinate expression of their religious and ethnocultural difference?

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?

As I write in the book, «I grew obstinate and incorrigible, ready to debate family and friends whose easy confidence baffled and frustrated me and gave me an excuse to be angry at someone besides God.

In May, 1521, the Emperor adjudged Luther to be «cut off from the Church of God» and commanded his subjects to refuse the «obstinate schismatic and manifest heretic» hospitality, food, or drink, to take him prisoner and turn him over to the Emperor, and to deal similarly with all Luther's friends and adherents.

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.»

I suspect a profound ambivalence in certain democratic denunciations of Hitlerism, for in the violence of the tone and the obstinate simplism of the judgments, we betray our bad conscience, our secret anxiety, our unacknowledged temptation.

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In all my life, I never lived in the parish where one person was publicly admonished or brought to public penitence or excommunicated, though there were never so many obstinate drunkards, whore - mongers, or vilest offenderIn all my life, I never lived in the parish where one person was publicly admonished or brought to public penitence or excommunicated, though there were never so many obstinate drunkards, whore - mongers, or vilest offenderin the parish where one person was publicly admonished or brought to public penitence or excommunicated, though there were never so many obstinate drunkards, whore - mongers, or vilest offenders.

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

If spurs will finally lift the trophy this year, this tie will be a key reason that happened and so Arsenal supporters will have this a season to forget... However, after the change in system Arsene Wenger has taken us from his obstinate 4.3.2.1 to another obstinate 3.4.2.1.

The Payson family, which owns the team, has given Grant broad authority to run it, and Grant has always acted in a strong, thoroughly obstinate manner.

For United's part, opinion is split as to who gets the credit, whether this is the long - awaited «click» that Louis van Gaal has been promising, or whether a couple of fortuitous injuries has forced the obstinate Dutchman into picking everybody in their best positions.

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.

It's fecking unforgiveable, and I am pig sick of our obstinate manager who in his arrogance thinks he knows best.

For me, learning about developmentally appropriate behavior (i.e., it's our toddler's job to test us) and to keep in mind that what may seem like obstinate, strong - willed behavior in children may actually be desirable traits in independently thinking grown ups.

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.

This obstinate blinkered mule has no comprehension of the simple fact that it is his total lack of credibility as a leader that gives rise to a very poor Tory government having such a commanding lead in the opinion polls.

Although distressed by Cameron's obstinate Euroscepticism, the Commissioner is otherwise emphatic in his approval, comparing him to the young Tony Blair of 11 or 12 years ago when Labour was in opposition.»

Mr Cameron issued a sly dig back at the French president, who earlier this week called him an «obstinate kid», in a question and answer session following a speech.

The incumbent has previously described you as an «obstinate kid» and refused to shake your hand in public.

Today a vocal and obstinate minority within both parties has hijacked good legislation in pursuit of no legislation.»

Cameron's obstinate defence of Maria Miller against the large majority of his own party and the public who want to be rid of her for her greed, arrogance and sheer callous disregard for decent standards in public life needs some explaining.

The mayor's obstinate demand to further tax the rich triggered their feud in the first place, but he keeps picking at the scab in a petty effort to portray Cuomo as a fake progressive.

The Minority in Parliament has taken judicial notice of the rather defiant, intransigent, stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, adamant, stiff - necked and unremorseful posture of Ghana's disgraced High Commissioner to South Africa, H.E. George Ayisi Boateng.

«It is folly to ignore this scientific consensus — obstinate and irresponsible in the extreme.

Bruno's adventures in free thought ended when the Roman Inquisition declared him «an impenitent, pertinacious, and obstinate heretic,» to which he characteristically replied, «You may be more afraid to bring that sentence against me than I am to accept it.»