Sentences with phrase «with obstinate»

The discrepancy between the parenting time age and child support age has created parenting time problems for many parents who find themselves with an obstinate teenager who no longer wishes to follow the court order.

It's a tall order, and Caavo has a long way to go — and a lot of conversations to have with obstinate, protective players like cable companies who have been very slow to integrate with streaming services and devices.

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.

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.

Schindler's Jewish accountant (Ben Kingsley) serves as his conscience, as Schindler conducts business with an obstinate and cruel Nazi commander (Ralph Fiennes), who viciously kills Jewish prisoners from the balcony of his villa overlooking a prison camp.

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To deal with the few obstinate holdouts, Brookings Institution fellow Robert Pozen has suggested making the second year's «say on pay» vote after a shareholder's revolt into a binding resolution.

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

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.

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

Looking round at them with anger and sorrow at their obstinate stupidity, Jesus said to the man, «Stretch out your hand».

This pattern can be better grasped by comparison with its opposite, the assertive individualist, or as Gregory says, «The obstinate individual.»

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»....

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.

Is my present uneasiness with Hartshorne due to an obstinate residue of the psycho - logic of substantive metaphysics?

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?

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.

The Jews, the papacy, other reformers, obstinate old worldly Wittenbergers, they were all ripe targets for his anger compounded now with the frustration of illlness and old age.

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.

I was downright obstinate with my second.

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.

The President, Civil Liberties Organisation, Igho Akeregha, said, «The obstinate and dictatorial attitude of President Buhari suggests that he is yet to fully align with democratic ethos.

When people react negatively to your lack of action or your obstinate behavior, you feel gratified, like a rebellious adolescent who is winning the power struggle with his or her parents.

With the light airs of spring all around, many of us are going to lighten their diets too and want to shed some of the obstinate weight they have packed on over the winter season.

Here is a meticulous American milieu where obstinate men with crazy facial hair hurl insults at one another in a baroque compendium of Twainian whimsy, Shakespearean oratory, Biblical commandment and the florid spin doctoring of the day, including the single greatest use of the word «nincompoop» in cinema history.

That is part of it, sure, as Zero Dark Thirty is worlds away from films like Point Break or K 19: The Widowmaker, but what sticks with you about this new film is Bigelow and Boal's obstinate refusal to give in to convention.

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.

But Tom in particular becomes more and more brazen in what he is willing to do, and becomes more obstinate and violent against those who either disagree with him or cross him.

Driscoll was faced with a variety of challenges in advancing his reform agenda, from obstinate teachers unions to mercurial head of the Commonwealth's School Board, John Silber.

So to avoid that appearance of intransigence the teacher's unions were relatively less obstinate about charters and shackled them with all sorts of limitations against the day when the public would once again lapse into disinterest in education issues and charters could be quietly and tidily done away with.

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.

Olivia is a 34 - year - old Hollywood film producer who is trying to launch a movie version of Don Quixote with the help of an obstinate director.

So, I understand full well why many self - publishing writers, facing obstinate and unseemly industry resistance, adopt an embattled posture and focus on what's wrong with traditional («legacy») publishers and their diminishing («dead tree») products.

a member of the modern, agreeable, happy - go - lucky gang of «indie authors»: he hails from the «olden» days when the stereotypical image of writers was still — with good reason, I suppose — that of obstinate, loopy, unsociable, disgruntled old geezers who most likely hate all other writers, but especially any who might materialise in their vicinity.

Because of your Jack Russell's notoriously obstinate approach to life (and training), you will need to be prepared for mutiny with two tools: treats (preferably kept in a fanny - pack to keep your hands free and your pockets clean) and the ability to isolate and ignore your dog when he misbehaves.

Its obstinate personality may make it difficult to housebreak, but you can achieve the task with consistent, firm training.

Although obstinate is particularly good with people.

There are tough and obstinate breeds of dog who fare well with heavy - handed, loud, rough handlers, and there are sensitive dogs who succeed with gentle, quiet, thoughtful owners.

That game had similar puzzle elements to Conarium; you basically explored a giant space station, collecting crucial items and fighting with the station's obstinate, analog technology while hiding from an extraterrestrial terror that could kill you in an instant.

Suddenly, all that pain you endured subsides with a tremendous sense of accomplishment when you finally figure out how to beat that one obstinate obstacle - even if it came at the cost of your dismembered controller, which you abused like a well - worn stress ball.

Free Cooper Union is past the point of reconciling with disengaged, wasteful, obstinate trustees, who continue to absolve and validate their presence by spending hundreds - of - thousands of dollars on what is nothing more than a talking cure.

Is law filled with more obstinate traditionalists with no desire to change and adapt?

While hearing expenses are, from one perspective, simply a cost of a body being tasked with administering justice, hearing expenses can also seem, from another perspective, a «needless» expense which relates directly to a respondent being obstinate about his or her misconduct.

I cooperated with them because I'm not one to cause trouble, and in particular did not wish to concern the child, but if I had chosen to be obstinate, or the mother wasn't available to appease them, what would the legal rules have been?

People who struggle with a child's defiant, angry or obstinate behavior often feel as though they have failed as parents.

She expended an exorbitant amount of energy attempting to make everyone happy and resolve conflict with family members who were unrelentingly obstinate.

I've worked with and against just about every type of divorcing spouse imaginable: unreasonable, practical, obstinate, angry, vengeful, combative, miserly, and emotionally challenged, to name but a few.