(a.) Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
(a.) Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.
(v. t.) To harden.
Example Sentences:
(1) The system is not an obdurate one-man rule, but a balancing of power groups, including the military, government and internal security, all have different interests and policies.
(2) Both the Coalition and Labor are obdurately stuck with barbaric offshore detention policies, as though sensible, humane and politically viable alternatives are beyond them.
(3) For their part, the Israeli left accused Peres of acting as a figleaf for an obdurate Likud administration.
(4) Report on the temporary substitution of pharynx and upper oesophagus with synthetic skin substitute in case of incurable obdurating neck carcinoma.
(5) His team-mates were obdurate opponents in every respect.
(6) The fact that it was Johnson rather than Crow who had been obdurate was highlighted by the fact that TfL had all along planned to retain ticket-selling facilities at several busy stations, but, prompted by Johnson, had publicly suggested that they would all be closed.
(7) For the first time there were obvious signs of tension and, suddenly, this tough, obdurate West Bromwich side showed an attacking intent that simply had not been there earlier in the match.
(8) In the face of obdurate unreason, the president of hyper-reasonableness was forced to surrender.
(9) Underpinning the witty remarks and the textbook flippancy ("call me early, Goering dear, for I'm to be Queen of the May" was apparently Nancy's riposte to news of Diana and Unity's German adventures) though, was an absolute and obdurate self-belief; a self-possessed seriousness only partly disguised by sisterly teasing.
(10) Max from Earlsfield muses: "Admittedly terrible from Fab, a shame after 47 minutes of obdurate defence.
(11) This was a slog, a result ground out against ruggedly obdurate opposition , but Chelsea may end up gaining more satisfaction from prevailing in those awkward circumstances than from some of the more comfortable strolls they have enjoyed over a nine-match winning streak.
(12) Read more It was the third minute of stoppage time, and the cruellest of circumstances for this tough, obdurate Burnley side, when Arsenal’s possession finally paid off and the seemingly endless 20th-anniversary commemorations for Arsène Wenger were given a shot of euphoria that had not seemed like coming.
(13) Ireland were obdurate opponents but that does not fully explain the lack of quality that held back England once Frank Lampard had scored the 29th goal of his international career, 10 minutes after Shane Long's expertly taken header had given Giovanni Trapattoni's side an early lead.
(14) Russia's determination to defend wider spheres of traditional influence in the non-aligned and developing world can be seen in its obdurate refusal to penalise Syria, in the face of almost universal outrage over the crackdown there; and in its de facto defence of Iran's nuclear programme.
(15) It had needed some obdurate defending to keep the score down before Alves exchanged passes with the substitute Neymar and cut in from the right to slip his shot through Hart's legs.
(16) Republicans have been both obdurate and obtuse in Congress, where approval ratings have rarely scraped 20%.
(17) He is assertive (he insists on his photographer and dictates the terms of the interview), obdurate and, at times, wilfully contrary.
(18) We had an obdurate Labor party, a feckless Senate and a very difficult media culture,” Abbott said.
(19) In the years since those facts first became known, the story of the Holocaust has been told and retold, yet it still remains obdurately difficult to tell.
(20) Giles also remained obdurate and continued to refuse to resign even though he had only four supporters as against the conspirators’ nine.
Unrepentant
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Conroy, out at the ovarian cancer event we’ve already touched on, was unrepentent as he was chased down the corridor by reporters.
(2) But under his presidency, the gap between rich and poor and black and white grew; Guantánamo is still open; the financial system that caused the crash remains intact and unrepentant; poverty, corporate profits, deportations and whistleblower convictions are up.
(3) An unrepentant admirer of the military junta in power until 1974, Michaloliakos, who founded Golden Dawn in the early 1980s, stands accused of running a paramilitary operation that systematically attacked migrants, leftists and gay people.
(4) The unrepentant immigration minister, James Brokenshire, was defending in public for the first time the decision taken by the home secretary, Theresa May, to refuse to support future search and rescue operations of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rickety unseaworthy boats.
(5) In 2009 an unrepentant Donaldson predicted 65,000 more deaths from swine flu .
(6) Marianne magazine called him a "fossil of the 60s and 70s", but Badiou is unrepentant.
(7) But the incident had profoundly disgusted him and the unrepentant actions of the security forces, combined with the indifference of the Indian media, had convinced him that Kashmir needed its independence.
(8) It was kinder and gentler than what I had been getting in my church up to that point with people telling me it was an evil spirit and I was an unrepentant sinner.
(9) Criminals are released from prison and return to work every day, but the prospect of an unrepentant convicted rapist retaking his place at a League One football club has proved another matter.
(10) Updated at 9.34pm GMT 8.49pm GMT Senate majority leader Harry Reid tells reporters the CIA appears “unrepentant” , McClatchy reports : “I believe in separation of powers.
(11) The union for St Louis county police was unrepentant about its members' actions before control was ceded to the highway patrol, defending "the decisions made to control the unlawful and often chaotic moments of the previous days".
(12) Tan remains unrepentant and once again criticised Mackay's transfer dealings, and in particular his purchase of the Danish striker Andreas Cornelius.
(13) Mr Balestrieri, who founded an organisation last June with the express purpose of seeking Mr Kerry's excommunication, was unrepentant.
(14) On Tuesday, however, Murphy appeared unrepentant in that view, reminding party activists that in spite of the ghosts of Iraq, Labour does still support intervention.
(15) Though Ivanka’s feminist bonafides are shaky at best – the child care plan she pushed doesn’t include fathers, her Women Who Work campaign is more Pinterest than activist, she supports an unrepentant racist misogynist – any criticism of her is positioned as a rejection of feminist ideals.
(16) Gibb, who arrives for an interview on the subject bearing a little pile of Hirsch's works adorned with yellow Post-it notes, is unrepentant.
(17) Twice we went to the country unchanged, unrepentant, just plain unattractive.
(18) David reckoned later that his attacks had been too emotive, going beyond reasonable argument, though he was unrepentant.
(19) Fraser – a long-time advocate of freebirth who ran a website called Joyous Birth – was unrepentant.
(20) Brokenshire was unrepentant in the Commons in defending the government’s approach, which was described by some Labour backbenchers as a policy of “let them drown”.