What's the difference between balky and obstinate?

Balky


Definition:

  • (a.) Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The antiallergic and decongestive effects of the common cold preparation Balkis was tested by rhinomanometry in human volunteers usually suffering from allergic rhinitis after oral treatment.
  • (2) Balkis was well tolerated in all of the 30 patients.
  • (3) The rhinomanometrical control of the respiratory resistance was carried out before and after an allergenic exposal as well as before and after administration of Balkis and allergenic exposal in 30 patients (17 females, 13 males; 9-49 years old).
  • (4) It is shown that Balkis had a good to satisfactory antiallergic effect in 67% of all cases.

Obstinate


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
  • (a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patient was a forty-five-year-old female who had been troubled by obstinate Raynaud's phenomenon for ten years before the definite diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension was made.
  • (2) The whole proves his introversion, ambivalence, hypersensitivity, obstinancy, anxieties, behavioral anomalies, a life rich in fantasies and his underestimation of his own literary work.
  • (3) Soon my piano lessons had turned into me, an obstinate 11-year old, demanding that my neighbour teach me ever-more intricate DOS commands.
  • (4) Peritoneal pseudomyxoma has several main features: it is insidious, recurrent, obstinate and severe.
  • (5) Adamant avoidance of division of primary clinical responsibility among cooperating specialists and clinician obstinancy when dealing with third parties can help prevent suicides.
  • (6) When an obstinate irritable colon is present, a diagnostics of neuroses is indicated.
  • (7) Twenty-two cases 23 eyes with obstinate stromal keratitis treated by combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicines are reported in this paper.
  • (8) Scores of people, including comedian Mark Thomas and wilderness hiker Cameron McNeish, have become joint owners of an acre of land previously owned by Michael Forbes, the quarryman and salmon netsman who has become Trump's most famous and obstinate opponent.
  • (9) The results show the possibility that recombinant human interleukin-1 alpha could be of help for treating obstinate infections not successfully treated with antimicrobial agents alone.
  • (10) "[The officials] have become obstinate – they are seeking just different ways to mistreat my mother and us as her children," he said.
  • (11) During the first weeks of the rheumatoid arthritis the following symptoms are found: articular syndromes, more frequently in form of obstinate polyarthralgias, mono-oligoarthritis, accompanied by morning rigidity and accelerated BSR as well as impairment of the general condition.
  • (12) In a study for the recognition of the urodynamics of the detrusor after administration of the anticholinergic drug Mictonorm 14 patients with obstinate urge symptoms were examined.
  • (13) But these factors become important when patients, particularly debilitated patients, are infected acutely or chronically with some of the more obstinate bacteria.
  • (14) Back by the obstinately uninflated elephant, Simon Vose clambered in to his van and set off on another callout for his house maintenance business.
  • (15) These results show the possibility that KW-2228 could be of use in treating obstinate infections not successfully treated with an antimicrobial agent alone.
  • (16) Instead, the focus has been on the objective question: could an obstinate and prejudiced person have honestly based the comment made by the defendant on the facts on which the defendant commented?
  • (17) But with a very strong El Niño driving record global temperatures and a huge patch of hot water, known as “the Blob” , hanging obstinately in the north-western Pacific, things look far worse again for 2016.
  • (18) Such querulous, opinionated persons are obstinate "bellyachers" who "stick to their guns" and imaginary legal positions to the extent of being a general nuisance.
  • (19) Three years later, he provoked intense controversy with the publication of Haig: The Educated Soldier, which was sharply at odds with the popular view that the first world war had been the supreme example of "mud, blood and futility", with British generals depicted as callous, obstinate and incompetent.
  • (20) The knowledge of these diseases is a prerequisite to the causal and lasting treatment of patients affected by the obstinate and occasionally even painful symptom of the burning tongue.

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