But I've witnessed the power of that kind of stubbornness.
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But we also need your compassion, your curiosity, your stubbornness.
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Yet that same stubbornness and perfectionism led to missed opportunities.
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His supporters admire his determination; his enemies disparage his stubbornness.
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Not just out of stubbornness or naiveté — exactly the opposite.
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Tenacity and stubbornness are the defining qualities of undocumented America.
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Mr. Herrou's accusers seemed most taken aback by his stubbornness.
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That speaks to both procrastination, but also to innate stubbornness.
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His stubbornness forestalls what was quickly becoming a succession crisis.
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We see him put people in danger because of teenage stubbornness.
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Stubbornness. What did you make when you first started making art?
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Or perhaps it was simple stubbornness or lack of self-awareness.
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All of this said, Jackson can be mystifying in his stubbornness.
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They wear their rose-colored glasses proudly, with an admirable stubbornness.
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Watch out for that Taurus-inspired stubbornness when trying to discuss.
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His sheer stubbornness entered Catalan folklore and endeared him to Catalonians.
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But that kind of stubbornness only perpetuates the problem of meat.
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" But as for the qualities she could do without: "Maybe… Kourtney's stubbornness.
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The rest of us can only aspire to this level of stubbornness.
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"There's nothing to tell," Gabor insists to his son with characteristic stubbornness.
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The line between intellectual confidence and mere stubbornness can be thin, however.
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Women must embrace our stubbornness, and not acquiesce unless we want to.
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It's not the establishment you are screwing with your donor-induced stubbornness.
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The most narcissistic traits — defensiveness, authoritativeness, and stubbornness — were ranked at 5.
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"We didn't set out to understand partisan stubbornness per se," Kaplan said.
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His choice to fight there out of stubbornness is doing him zero favors.
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But stubbornness can turn into pigheadedness if it is not tempered by realism.
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Trump's stubbornness has brought that question to the forefront of US politics again.
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Also-rans alternate between stubbornness and retreat without bothering to pause for reflection.
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Their stubbornness in the face of reason is what makes this country great.
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Out of stubbornness, I top rope the stupid route and actually enjoy myself.
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"There may be issues of stubbornness or inflexibility to work through," she says.
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This could also just be a rare confluence of sun, stubbornness, and space.
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Her mother didn't like it, but she was resigned to her daughter's stubbornness.
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He is also known for his stubbornness in love and life in general.
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In those roles, she has become known for stubbornness and an imperious style.
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First, the size and stubbornness of the protests surprised the government, he said.
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His stubbornness won't change anything, they say, and will only hurt his family.
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And yet thanks to some meaty guitar, it has a slow-country stubbornness.
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The flat-affect grimness and self-thwarting stubbornness of this season bear this out.
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The temperament that he has shown throughout his career has been one of stubbornness.
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If this isn't an example of my stubbornness, then I don't know what is.
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"Inflation at 4 percent isn't stubbornness - it's a necessity for our economy," Nabiullina said.
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Morsi had a reputation for stubbornness, and it seemed impossible that he would negotiate.
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WE SOLD IT. WEISS: THE BIG DANGER IS WHEN CONVICTION CHANGES THE INTO STUBBORNNESS.
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Cray himself also buoys these scenes with his particular blend of stubbornness and charm.
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I love his stubbornness in telling it how he sees it—tiptoeing be damned.
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Stubbornness, to my mind, connotes a, an unreasoning, a thoughtless refusal to do something.
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Bam confronted Nikki about what he considers her "extreme stubbornness" ... according to our sources.
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"It's not the establishment you are screwing with your donor-induced stubbornness," Gaetz wrote.
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That would allow both parties to claim a midterm mandate — and reinforce their stubbornness.
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I ask myself: Will my self-awareness triumph over my own (apparently genetic) stubbornness?
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One paragraph reads: A kind of stubbornness made me read Funeral Rites in its entirety.
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He said, There has always been this stubbornness to you that I can't break through.
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Such stubbornness is common, notes Kazunori Iwakoshi, who heads an NGO that supports elderly drivers.
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Today, Stephanie chimes in with cheerful jokes about the baby's stubbornness, similar to her mother's.
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Everyone's got a favorite, and we cling to our loyalties out of sheer mindless stubbornness.
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But if this past Saturday was any indication, genius and stubbornness are dangerously close together.
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They tend to blame inaction on laziness or stubbornness rather than admit they are tired.
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He yelled at her to calm down and said she should work on her stubbornness.
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He flashes teenage stubbornness in defying Iron Man (and everyone who seems to know better).
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I found that Uber brings some of this on itself with its own indifference and stubbornness.
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We need your smarts, of course, but we also need your compassion, your curiosity, your stubbornness.
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"That was when my stubbornness kicked in and I used it to my advantage," he says.
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"The state's pursuance and Mary's stubbornness gave her an awkward place in the history of Medicine."
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There's a head-down mulish stubbornness to Edgerton's performance, and an uneducated sulkiness to Nichols' dialogue.
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This, however, is totally unusual for a Taurus, a sign known for it's steadfastness (and stubbornness!).
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Our behavior may have been intensified by the stubbornness and sense of invincibility all teens feel.
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You could call it stubbornness, or reacting with pettiness to outsiders telling them what to do.
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Beyond the demographic likeness, they share pride, stubbornness and a laser focus on achieving their objectives.
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COMEY: Because I, I don't think ego, stubbornness, overconfidence played a significant role in those decisions.
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It's a strategy that risks a government default over stubbornness under the pretense of fiscal prudence.
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Rainsy said that "because of Hun Sen's stubbornness" the Cambodian people will lose on both fronts.
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"What I like about running is that it doesn't require much talent, just stubbornness," she said.
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Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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After getting over my stubbornness and doing some more research, I realized the rep was right.
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It takes a certain kind of stubbornness to lie about things that are easy to verify.
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The show highlights that stubbornness, and how not letting go of the past can be a downfall.
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Through it all, Benitez has remained stubbornly committed to his stubbornness, firmly attached to his many quirks.
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I yo-yoed back and forth over my desire to talk to her and my own stubbornness.
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"Game of Thrones" definitely has a moral compass: it demands flexibility, not stubbornness, cunning rather than guilelessness.
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Perhaps it's stubbornness that's kept it on Samsung's flagships, as many other companies have gone Apple's route.
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His stubbornness has caused him and his staff untold agita in his first 112 days in office.
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Ultimately, however, the company's stubbornness is precisely what got it into this position in the first place.
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Elizabeth was doing her best spy damage control, and it was still no match for Paige's stubbornness.
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Its story is proof that hardly any field is as laced with stubbornness and sensitivity as science.
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A glossy time capsule, the interview is testament to consistency, stubbornness or stuntedness, depending on your view.
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And Hitchen sees to it that Ricky's delusions, stubbornness and iffy decision-making never tip into stupidity.
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The leaders of America's closest allies challenged President Trump's stubbornness at their Group of 7 summit meeting.
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Another person who knows Comey well says, 'There is stubbornness, ego, and some self-righteousness at work.
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The professional drive, stubbornness and pride that connect them also create the challenges to their happy ending.
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The Game Master's stubbornness was just a ruse to keep Adrian, a former masked crime fighter, occupied.
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That cool certainty, laced with stubbornness, is as much a part of Rodgers's personality as his memory.
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"It's not the establishment you are screwing with your donor-induced stubbornness," Gaetz wrote in another tweet.
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Reluctance to come clean could reflect blundering, stubbornness, or simply blindness to the extent of the problem.
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He talks about his time in the orphanage with wry amusement, crediting the experience with shaping his stubbornness.
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"I really have this determination, as somebody said about me the other day, a stubbornness," Clinton told Strayed.
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He was also Jackson's final transaction before owner James Dolan wisely addressed Porzingis's unhappiness by eliminating Jackson's stubbornness.
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It's that fantastic stubbornness, that fantastic naiveté almost, that is exemplary of so many women of that time.
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Instead, Wenger refused to buy another starting centerback, driven by some combination of faith, stubbornness, cheapness, and infatuation.
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At this point, the resistance seems to be divided into three overarching areas: misinformation, disidentification, and general stubbornness.
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Wanting to do things consistent with the norms, traditions, values of your institution I don't think is stubbornness.
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It's better to have one uncomfortable conversation than to let a misunderstanding and stubbornness ruin a good relationship.
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Stark's weakness isn't kryptonite or some kind of superhuman ailment, but rather his own arrogance, stubbornness, and selfishness.
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Her conversations with her father reveal strength, stubbornness and an essential canniness about when to press her claims.
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The entries on that list reflect my frustration of seeing the price my parents paid for their stubbornness.
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"You outlive your usefulness when you start harming your party by your policy stances or your stubbornness," he said.
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" He also noted the stubbornness of climate change deniers with a Biblical reference: "Man is stupid, the Bible said.
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"The Philippines' stubbornness is clearly the result of behind-the-scene instigation and political manipulation," he said, without elaborating.
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And it was Lyndon Baines Johnson's stubbornness that added another layer of panic on the day JFK was assassinated.
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"These actions are not taken out of stubbornness but to give diplomacy a chance," agency spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said.
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With nothing mannered about his brash performance, he managed Lear's stubbornness, madness and grief convincingly, without grand theatrical flourishes.
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In the end, like always, his stubbornness paid off, and this incident would seal his place in Catalan folklore.
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A lot of women have tried to address these problems and have faced a lot of stubbornness from husbands.
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"I think President Trump's greatest single attribute is his stubbornness," longtime Trump associate Roger Stone said in an interview.
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He patiently tamps down her stubbornness and temper while appreciating her quirks, helping her to become her best possible self.
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That village is in the Smaland region of southern Sweden, known for the resourcefulness, stinginess and stubbornness of its inhabitants.
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"There has been stubbornness by the electoral commission and many violations against the other candidate," he said, referring to Anan.
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The obstacle is not the stubbornness of Mrs May, the intransigence of the EU or the obstreperousness of the French.
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And as scientists reported this week, getting around that cellular stubbornness could make Crispr'd cells more vulnerable to becoming cancerous.
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" To preserve her perspective, Cerreti kept her distance from mafiosi and from their victims, describing herself as driven by "stubbornness.
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Suddenly the master could not stop the rot, his faith in underperforming players became stubbornness and the media questions began.
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This illogical stubbornness is all in the spirit of the book's inclination to throw obstacle after obstacle at its protagonists.
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He had been a polarizing president, cherished as well as deplored for his excitability, his stubbornness, his gift for demagoguery.
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She also can help cut through her brother's stubbornness and longing for the good old days of Joe and Val.
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But he would praise you for your stubbornness, telling you that you would go far and do great things someday.
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It took a lot of hard work, a certain degree of stubbornness, and forward-thinking politicians to get where they are.
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Now it is the time for the government to be tough and to face down the stubbornness of Dublin and Brussels.
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Those emotions are largely absent from the latest film, and toughness and stubbornness alone aren't enough to make a compelling character.
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Only Jones can decide his fate at this point with his pride and stubbornness proven by the last decade or so.
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"I really, really hope it's just an out and out fight through stubbornness, through mental stability, through fitness, composure...," he added.
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I inherited my strong will (read: stubbornness) from both sides of my parentage, and it has almost always served me well.
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"Stubbornness and pride are what keeps most people back since it doesn't allow for self-improvement and self-awareness," explains Kim.
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Capricorn's symbol is the Goat and just like goats, Capricorns are known for their stubbornness, straightforwardness, and love of hard work.
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Out of sheer stubbornness, Lynette refused to limp on the hurt ankle, wouldn't allow anyone to see that she was wounded.
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Her stubbornness won a crucial six-month delay, she said; before it expired, the father was arrested and charged with murder.
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In yet another staggering reveal of the league's ineptitude and stubbornness, it still hasn't fully embraced his presence at the event.
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His knowledge, his brilliance, his work ethic, his pedantry, his stubbornness: these things keep the Spaniard locked in his fortress of solitude.
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He couldn't quite say what it was about Sally — her strange fearless innocence, her stubbornness — but he trusted every word she said.
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But there is still a bit of experimenting going on -- or in Trump's case, maybe a little bit of pride and stubbornness.
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"Miranda saw Hamilton's relentlessness, brilliance, linguistic dexterity, and self-destructive stubbornness through his own idiosyncratic lens," wrote The New Yorker in 2015.
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Humor aside, Milosh taps into how important it is to release stubbornness and acknowledge your partner's feelings, something he says is gratifying.
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The Packing Cubes Packing is a game of stubbornness and sheer will between me and my suitcase, and only the strongest survives.
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But in Speechless, it very quickly becomes clear that her stubbornness comes from a deep love and fierce protectiveness for her kids.
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Mr Lowery's wistful reflections on regret, stubbornness and transience are ultimately so affecting that you can even forgive the pie-scoffing scene.
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When we look at the spectrum of these extraordinary leaders, we see brilliance combined with stubbornness and a penchant for breaking rules.
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Without even saying a word, she provokes Trump to show the worst of his personality: his sexism, lies, bullying, vindictiveness, and stubbornness.
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In explaining what went wrong, former ministers, aides and congressmen point to Rousseff's stubbornness, economic mismanagement and a tendency toward self-isolation.
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His self-defeating stubbornness would not have ruined the curb appeal of Madison Square Garden, the self-proclaimed World's Most Famous Arena.
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Russian stubbornness, she added, meant that the authorities needed to introduce controls step by step if the public is to obey them.
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Her irreverent attitude and stubbornness immediately drew me into the book and kept me there for the amazing world building and action.
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But Mr. Daly finds something universal in Forrest: his denial, his workaholism, his stubbornness, his inability to break his self-destructive patterns.
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He is a natural extrovert, expressive and energetic, as friendly as a Labrador retriever with a bit of bulldog stubbornness mixed in.
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There is no reason beyond stubbornness to maintain bases for 17 brigades that even defense hawks believe the Army does not need.
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Extra points —The Giants' defense has been a disaster, but stubbornness contributed just as much as a lack of talent on Sunday.
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As it turns out, dogged stubbornness is a fitting characteristic for readers of this book, which weaves a complex tapestry of refusals.
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The baby's sun sign is Taurus, a sign known for its work ethic, groundedness, stubbornness, and love of the finer things in life.
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It's the story of a maniacal and apocalypse-minded cult leader, David Koresh, whose delusional stubbornness led to the deaths of 224 people.
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This is a day for you and, by the way, because of my stupidity and stubbornness, a day you thought would never come.
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Before he read a draft of this essay, my husband may have sensed this instinctively, hence his uncharacteristic stubbornness about naming our children.
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Or is there enough stubbornness and folly in either man to keep on sawing off their party's nose to spite the other's face?
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" Responding to a fan who told the reality star he made losing weight look so easy, Baltierra replied, "Don't confuse stubbornness with ease.
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Both men are due your respect, but the heart which both men have shown throughout their career is also a sort of stubbornness.
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There's an aggressive, uncompromising stubbornness to the way he keeps making movies about weary older men pursuing venal, shallow, but willing younger women.
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She wasn't naughty, and she wasn't actually silent—that would have been a form of stubbornness to combat, to coax and maneuver around.
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For lawmakers such as Mr. Grassley, who espouse the virtues of free trade, the stubbornness of the squabble has amounted to growing frustration.
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His relentless pace, intense management style, stubbornness and reluctance to trust newcomers have made him ever more reliant on a select few aides.
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Jemisin's writing is immersive; though I've never been to New York, her rendering makes me feel the city's richness, diversity, stubbornness, and independence.
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Ali's life was navigated and often thrown off course by the most admirable and destructive human quality: Ali's story is one of stubbornness.
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The 60-year-old widower has an incredible tolerance for Miss Daisy's stubbornness and the film chronicles a friendship that lasts 25 years.
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When she was finally able to leave the apartment, Weinstein told her she needed to work on her stubbornness, according to the complaint.
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And principled confrontation is how you create optimistic change in the face of disagreement, unless it bends towards arrogance and stubbornness without purpose.
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The variation in this particular display of Trump's silly stubbornness -- now known as #Sharpiegate -- involves the telltale evidence created by his favorite pen.
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Here, and everywhere, interviews with the more private Venus on any delicate subject could be a study in her steadfastness bordering on stubbornness.
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Moscow still wants to maintain a dialogue with Washington and takes counter-measures due to "American political stubbornness", RIA cited the diplomat as saying.
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The conflict lives in a place of deeply valuing everything that came with those risks — the hard work, dedication, brotherhood, discipline, competitiveness, and stubbornness.
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His stubbornness has contributed to the league's most glaring disappointment, and he's shooting 3.93 percent from the floor over the Thunder's last 10 games.
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It takes a certain amount of resolve, bordering on stubbornness, to pour material and emotional resources into creating a real product from an idea.
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The film begins with patriarch William (Ralph Ineson), who looks like the world's most depressed pirate, banished from the Puritan colony for heretical stubbornness.
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They remain so, despite the relentless assault of the clueless, because of the clarity and stubbornness with which he created institutions built to last.
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That same stubbornness that makes both Diaz brothers a tough fight for anyone also makes Nick somewhat one note in many of his fights.
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When none arrived, and with Mr. Cruz sounding like a nominee-in-waiting, Mr. Trump grew impatient with the stubbornness of his rival. Gov.
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They are both hard workers and good husbands, and each is a victim of his own stubbornness as well as of the other's provocations.
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Ali's stubbornness manifested itself in its best way: he turned the fight ugly and won it in probably the only way he could have.
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She's said that Bezos could be a "royal a------" with "irrational stubbornness," but that it all came from his unrelenting desire to delight customers.
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One could be stubbornness, since most of Washington is trying to force him to toughen up and the President reacts poorly to such pressure.
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We were very different people, but we shared many of the same tendencies, including a nonnegotiable stubbornness about living life on our own terms.
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Taurus is associated with indulgence, pleasure, groundedness, and stubbornness, so it makes sense that Venus entering Taurus would signal some changes in our love lives.
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Unfortunately, as Vox's Brian Resnick wrote, despite warnings, some people will never choose to evacuate their homes due to financial reasons, disabilities, or pure stubbornness.
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What has made it resilient and a bold contrast to Trump is also what could make it frightening to many voters: its cool, calculating stubbornness.
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The main takeaway from this biography is Lucas' unease about the traditional film industry, and his stubbornness when he's bringing his stories to the screen.
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He condemned the AngloAustralian miner for exhibiting "the same stubbornness" that last year led to a 44-day strike that jolted the global copper market.
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There is no reason other than sheer stubbornness for human brains to assume that they are neurologically equipped to understand the finest details of creation.
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One official with the Red Cross in Uganda blamed superstitions among neighboring Congo's population for a "stubbornness" that was preventing Uganda from effectively screening refugees.
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Dittmar calls the two septuagenarians "the stubbornness of white male privilege at play," adding that the default, especially in presidential politics, is often white men.
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" She continued to resist and finally moved to leave the apartment, at which point Weinstein allegedly told her "she needed to work on her stubbornness.
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It may have been pure stubbornness in hindsight, but while the list of reasons for not making the jump was steadily dwindling, it certainly existed.
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Rose's siblings talked about their mother's stubbornness, her determination to provide for them: "What she didn't have, she made sure we had it," one said.
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" Instead, Americans face poverty and deprivation because "the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence.
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I will always wonder how many more races I could have won or how much longer I could have raced if not for my stubbornness.
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His tenure won him praise for what was seen as candid effectiveness, & yet eviscerating criticism for what many saw as incompetence & stubbornness when confronted. pic.twitter.
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And in Saturday's playoff opener, Wall's (oft-admirable) stubbornness crystallized in a way that presented him so clearly as one of the league's most polarizing leaders.
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Rather, that award goes to a singular historical achievement: Ramona Singer announcing she has "evolved" past her bizarre, unavoidable obsession and stubbornness over vacation room selection.
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Catastrophe pitches itself as a love story of two very stubborn people, but its exploration of the effects of that stubbornness on a marriage is shallow.
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His stubbornness combined with raw talent is what got him here and has the potential to give him longevity that outlasts the fickleness of internet fandom.
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Our disabilities are different, but we grew up with a shared stubbornness to make trends work for us, even if that meant stumbling or feeling pain.
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They also require an outlying stubbornness in a Congress where many believe you must "go along to get along" and an ability to go it alone.
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"It has a lot to do with stubbornness and desire," she said, adding that she similarly trained herself to run despite a lack of athletic ability.
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"There should be no disavowal of the first part of the mandate, but there should be no stubbornness either," Sibeth Ndiaye, the government's spokeswoman, told reporters.
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Rousey's sloppy boxing, all out aggression, and stubbornness in the face of being hit in the face made her a mark for Holm's counter punching game.
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A lot of that stubbornness makes sense: Many of our elders believe they've made it this far in life, so they must be doing something right.
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"Stubbornness is good, but the most important thing is not guarantees on entering (the EU), but to be stubborn about reforms," said Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite.
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Umansky captures the stubbornness of childhood guilt, the way it can haunt later in life, even as the adult recognizes the limits of the child's power.
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"David liked to say that a combination of brilliant doctors, state-of-the-art medications, and his own stubbornness kept the cancer at bay," said Charles Koch.
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It may look like consummate stubbornness for us to continue preaching caution on Mr Woods's future, just two days after he made a mockery of such counsel.
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But in Mr Obama the author sees an ideological stubbornness that prevents him from doing so and that in some ways echoes the theories of Mr Rumsfeld.
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Though "gentrification" is never uttered, economic imperatives and parental stubbornness threaten the bond between the boys, an affection that carries a delicate, intriguing hint of sexual interest.
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"David liked to say that a combination of brilliant doctors, state-of-the-art medications and his own stubbornness kept the cancer at bay," Charles Koch wrote.
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Big or small, weak or strong, the whole endeavor is a triumph of sheer will, and anyone who makes it through has done so out of stubbornness.
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North Korea's stubbornness on its missile program has given a boost to U.S. lawmakers who are pushing for more money to expand and improve missile defense systems.
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But now the pieces of me that sometimes seem like liabilities—hyperfocusing on what I find interesting, my intense curiosity and obsessiveness, my stubbornness—have become assets.
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What's perhaps most astonishing is that they never stopped making their work, despite years of disregard: There is something radical about their very stubbornness, their dogged persistence.
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Wendy wasn't interested in giving Zeke to Darlene, a woman whose stubbornness has led her to murder those who get in her way including her own husband.
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Dead Cells is one of those games that, when it runs up against the right combination of stubbornness, self-delusion, and neurotic obsessiveness, will ruin your life.
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That's how several studies directed by Allison Heid, a gerontologist consulting at Penn State and Rowan University, measured adult children's perceptions of stubbornness among their aging parents.
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After a trip to Syria in 2017 during which she met with Assad, Gabbard has been reluctant to condemn his regime, a stubbornness that has raised eyebrows.
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That's how several studies directed by Allison Heid, a gerontologist consulting at Penn State and Rowan University, measured adult children's perceptions of stubbornness among their aging parents.
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But now the pieces of me that sometimes seem like liabilities—hyper focusing on what I find interesting, my intense curiosity and obsessiveness, my stubbornness—have become assets.
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Every conversation we've had about how she's brought this story to life has shown this great amount of stubbornness and orneriness that is at the core of June.
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While Sabrina's relentless stubbornness may wear thin on viewer's patience by the end of the season, it's unlikely anyone will tire of Miss Wardwell, an unstoppable slinky terror.
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Even today, seven years later, when he couldn't live a life further from what he grew up knowing, he clings onto his background with an almost commendable stubbornness.
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Whether or not we vote for Clinton, we all owe her for the unending work and breathtaking determination and sheer stubbornness that got the country to this moment.
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Soccer legend David Beckham says his "perseverance, stubbornness and just bloody-mindedness" kept him motivated to get his new team, Inter Miami, playing in Major League Soccer (MLS).
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The first important thing to know is that the so-called "stubbornness" of certain body parts is largely dependent on your biology, and different people store fat differently.
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People underestimate her, of course, but her talent, her passion for science, her profound ethical grounding and her admirable stubbornness mean no one can dismiss her for long.
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So, I think this whole year, from January 22018th of 2393 to today, has been, for me, at least, a deeper confrontation with the stubbornness of American racism.
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Read more " _____ • Denise Balkissoon in The Globe and Mail: "Government-mandated needles would definitely be drastic, as would keeping students out of school because of their parents' stubbornness.
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My stubbornness to get my head around her ideas — and my insistence that she must be wrong — stood in my way of seeing what was best for me.
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These characteristics he had inherited from his father, a Spanish migrant who brought with him to Cuba the innate stubbornness of the gallego and who became a prosperous landowner.
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Against Nurmagomedov, McGregor seemed to fight with the same stubbornness while it was all going wrong, but the fight was marred by a willingness to flagrantly violate the rules.
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While she says that progress has been made towards equality and inclusivity, she thinks a lot of the stubbornness in the sports world lies in tradition, especially in England.
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The stubbornness displayed by both North and South Vietnam in future negotiations, and history's analysis of the internal political machinations in Saigon and Hanoi, preclude so ready a judgment.
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But I have always secretly held a fear in my heart — that it wasn't his stubbornness or his temper or even his alcoholism that caused him to abandon me.
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" Embodying the classic stubbornness Taurus, Jasmine is also a fire sign Sagittarius who can come off like a know-it-all with lines like, "I have something to say.
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She can be someone who is broadly symbolic of the kind of resilience—and, yes, stubbornness—that we will all need if we are to survive the Trump era.
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English former soccer superstar David Beckham said that "perseverance, stubbornness and just bloody-mindedness" kept him motivated to get his new team, Inter Miami, playing in Major League Soccer.
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His inspiration comes from a wide range of topics, such as social roles, hunger, stubbornness in pursuing life goals, errors in anthropological and cultural definitions, and real life experience.
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The Surge rewards players for using the same weapon over an extended period of time, with weapon specializing receiving its own leveling track, and my stubbornness proved a liability.
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From his just-concluded time with the Knicks, it is difficult to argue that the trappings of celebrity, and the stubbornness of age, didn't compromise his judgment and performance.
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"Based on the relatively strong economy, but the continued stubbornness of inflation, I've penciled in two hikes for 2018," Harker said at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Trump has reportedly complained in closed-door meetings about Canada's stance on North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations and has indicated a stubbornness on the issue of tariffs.
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And also I knew why he never came back because I have that same genetic stubbornness — that ability to block it out — because I do that, too, with painful things.
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Whether through a lack of budget, lack of interest, or just plain stubbornness, you have made it to March 2019 without jumping on board the Red Dead Redemption 2 bandwagon.
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Even as it became clear that there would be no encore, people stayed put for minutes, hoping that their stubbornness would cajole the band back out for one more song.
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Although it says it is keen to do so, and has sometimes appeared annoyed at Mr Assad's stubbornness, its actions have been aimed at giving the regime a military advantage.
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And so I think the sort of stubbornness of Bernie to not actually integrate that is gonna be really challenging for him as he sort of progresses through the primary.
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It takes some stubbornness to organize such a festival at a fairly isolated place in April, when it rains all the time, but in the end it's all worth it.
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A failure to do so would be catastrophic for Greece and an unconscionable stain on Germany, whose stubbornness is costing Greece the only durable solution to its woes: economic recovery.
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" She became a friendlier, more oratorical version of herself, and then a delightfully inconsequential eccentric, lauding "love's extraordinary-ordinary stubbornness" or announcing, "Writing is exciting / and baseball is like writing.
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A mixture of princely patronage, personal stubbornness and chance led what could have ended up as just another minor protest in a remote corner of Europe to become a global movement.
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C obsession with detail, process and proof and D stubbornness and confidence provide the foundation to do the fundamental work and hold an opinion through the vagaries of the market's movements.
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But the difficulty of a thing is often positively correlated with the desire of developers to achieve it — with a scalar modifier based on stubbornness and an exponential multiplier for nostalgia.
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Her vocal tone — possibly implying stubbornness or fragility or persistence, but always something complex and hard to reduce — is still a big part of what makes her music stick and surprise.
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Balance sheets from the previous two years show ample domestic corn supply relative to previous years, but apparently not as ample as this year given the stubbornness in the futures market.
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They were a moody band with equally volatile songs that alternated between pummeling hard-rock stubbornness and fuzzy dream-pop serenity, instantly recognizable by Mr. Corgan's sulky, nasal shrieks and moans.
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Wilson, who did not always practice the ideals at home that he preached abroad, also let his stubbornness doom his cherished league, which Republicans prevented the United States from ever joining.
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Although they have said they do not seek a monopoly, their posture has been one of uncompromising confidence, in part shown in their stubbornness to not meet with the Afghan government.
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The media and left dismiss this as Trump stubbornness and an inability to accept failure; but his supporters recognize this as a dogmatic commitment to progress, and love him for it.
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And Malcolm is a distinct protagonist, lacking the pride and flair of Lyra or the mournful brutality of Will, but with a quiet stubbornness and love for order all his own.
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Trying to keep up with their stubbornness and suppressed desires will make you want to scream, but the way their passion transcends the pages will keep you reading until the very end!
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The big picture: Economists have increasingly linked market concentration with nagging economic problems, such as the stubbornness of relatively flat U.S. wages despite 3.7% unemployment, the lowest in almost a half century.
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And after watching her stumble with a stubbornness approaching active determination for so long, seeing Hannah take new steps toward self-improvement — small and stuttering though they are — comes as a relief.
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I'll remember the unbudging stubbornness, the infuriating inflexibility and the fatalistic idealism that have characterised late-era Wenger, with far greater clarity than I'll remember his radical years as the pioneering Professeur.
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Best of all is the longtime character actor Titus Welliver (best known for "Lost" and "The Good Wife") as Bosch, giving soul to a character defined by his grouchiness, stubbornness and antiquity.
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Devoted to Lillian (Alice Barrett Mitchell), a spoiled creature who is devoted foremost to herself, he prefers the old ways, and so does she — with a stubbornness that may kill them both.
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This film is about the work, risk and sacrifice — the combination of stubbornness, courage and decency — required to make the ideal of equal justice under the law anything close to a reality.
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The Jake LaMotta in that film (played by Robert De Niro) is a deeply flawed human being with a self-destructive streak but some legitimate fighting talent and a resolute stubbornness under fire.
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The disease's stubbornness is partly due to the mosquito that transmits the disease and the parasite that causes it developing resistance to the sprays and drugs used to fight them, health experts say.
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Jackson's narcissism and stubbornness blinded him to the changing hoops world around him; by the end, he was left begging people to trust him when he said he knew what he was doing.
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The fact that anyone went scalloping on opening day in spite of the consensus that there weren't any scallops is testament to the fortitude, and perhaps stubbornness, of the few who did go.
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The Giants—A Defensive Line That Also Employs Other Players I think a little less of the moves the Giants made, because I think it shows an institutional stubbornness that hasn't been earned.
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Thanks to my stubbornness at 35D (see below), I wouldn't have ever gotten FOLEY – even though I know we've seen it in puzzles past, to mean the art of sound effects in movies.
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There are going to be ups and downs with the design of any new technology on the frontier of engineering — but morale and stubbornness can do a lot to keep the momentum up.
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Going right up to the edge of stereotypes — it turns out the woman's stubbornness serves her well in the Chinatown underworld — "Lucky Grandma" and Tsai pull off a tricky balancing act of tone.
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To that end, I want to see the "Patrick Melrose" mini-series — but only after reading the original novels by Edward St. Aubyn, which I've resisted so far, mostly out of sheer stubbornness.
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The question "The Front Runner" poses is whether those flaws, which have less to do with lust than with stubbornness and pride, should have cost the nation the chance of a Hart presidency.
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Chalk up these artistic choices, in part, to performers' creative ambitions and the stubbornness to get them realized, as well as to the increasing clout of individual stars versus a scrambling music business.
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Not least, it's sad because WWE clearly knows, could've prevented this with an ounce less stubbornness, and they're going ahead with plans to use this poor guy's career as dross for a cheap pop.
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But the U.S. government, in its stubbornness, becomes an obstacle to rescuing victims of terror: In the end, four of the five aid workers and journalists whom Bradley was trying to rescue are executed.
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Today's impasse, he said, is instead the result of stubbornness by both the separatists, who have not admitted to mistakes, and the center-right government that was in power during the 2017 secession attempt.
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Pennsylvania Democrats made a bet that Sestak's mavericky stubbornness would have been a liability in the general election, while McGinty's ability to take direction will help her run the strongest possible campaign against Toomey.
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" British cycling Olympic champion Callum Skinner, who fronts competitor-led movement Global Athlete, said: "IOC President Thomas Bach's stubbornness and arrogance has spectacularly failed in this instance and he has weakened the Olympic movement.
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His own investors have complained about Einhorn's stubbornness and criticized his unwillingness to say how much he has lost on the bet and come up with specific ideas to improve the portfolio's long-running underperformance.
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"When things started going wrong, she was unable to get the situation under control, and her lack of flexibility and stubbornness made things worse," said Mathieu Turgeon, a political scientist at the University of Brasília.
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For all his affection and empathy for his hillbilly brethren, he's not afraid to show the ways opportunities can be squandered not just by addiction or systemic failure but also out of laziness or stubbornness.
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" The only silence in this book comes from God, who witnesses and does nothing: "Such is the story made of stubbornness and a little air— / a story signed by those who danced wordless before God.
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That Mr. Cole then modeled maturity and vulnerability for him — talking about his difficult relationship with his stepfather, advocating for financial responsibility, admitting his own stubbornness about hip-hop's shifting tides — was startling and impressive.
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Among the many traits that combined to make Derek Jeter one of the most admired and adored baseball players of his generation, there was talent, drive and focus — and a good dose of stubbornness, too.
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Significant time is devoted to debating who she is and to hiding her, and we don't understand Tilo's or Anjum's obsession; it seems like sheer novelistic stubbornness, a desire to connect plotlines and political movements.
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Over 60 years as a developer, Mr. Solow has acquired a well-earned reputation for patience, stubbornness and ruthless litigation, with hundreds of lawsuits under his belt against enemies, friends, banks and blue chip tenants.
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When the women are shown running, strong and swift and determined, the viewer is meant to recognize their persistence as a testament to their spirit and stubbornness and commitment to moving forward, no matter the cost.
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Some members who voted in favor of the rezoning said it had been a difficult decision, while others chastised those who opposed the plan, saying there had been too much fear and stubbornness on both sides.
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Despite oil prices rising 3 percent on strong U.S. gasoline demand offsetting worries over record-high crude stockpiles, some traders continued to bet the market will turn lower again on OPEC's stubbornness in not cutting output.
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In a speech of striking stubbornness, he ignored the history-making achievement of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, who became the first woman in American history to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party.
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"Limbaugh in 22020 announced his plan to 'get out the truth on weapons of mass destruction,' blaming 'the obdurate stubbornness and blindness of the Democrats and the drive-by media,'" the group said on its website.
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" British cycling Olympic champion Callum Skinner, who fronts competitor-led movement Global Athlete, posted on Twitter: "IOC President Thomas Bach's stubbornness and arrogance has spectacularly failed in this instance and he has weakened the Olympic movement.
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The two men, different in almost every way except maybe stubbornness, refused to speak to each other for 20 years, until their mutual friend Frank Sinatra surprised them with a forced and uncomfortable onstage reunion in 1976.
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Through body language alone, it's clear to see with Fudge: the way Hardy articulates the minister's carefully honed insincerity, the way he exudes stubbornness and pig-headed hostility, the way his voices crackles under pressure and fear.
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Maya is a steamroller running on squeaky wheels, partly out of the need to argue for JJ's interests, but partly, it seems, from an innate stubbornness that sometimes rubs the rest of her family the wrong way.
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HONG KONG — Singapore has discovered more than 14 tons of pangolin scales in what conservation specialists called the largest such seizure of a single shipment worldwide, highlighting the stubbornness of the illegal trade of the scaly anteater.
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"Our advertising strategy, flawed by economics, culture and stubbornness, is the least-known reason why Democrats are losing," says Tim Lim, a Partner at Bully Pulpit Interactive — the advertising agency that managed the Obama and Clinton digital campaigns.
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After an argument about him changing a beat to impress an artist—that results in him losing an opportunity—Issa realizes that Daniel's stubbornness to change and microaggressions toward her over her lack of career focus isn't healthy.
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"It will be hard for the Australian dollar to close above $0.7300 given the stubbornness of rates markets still pricing in considerable chance of RBA easing this year, premised on the RBA simply being too optimistic," said Callow.
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It's more about the inevitability of social change, and about the way polite stubbornness and refusal — or even inability — to compromise can be as powerful over the long term as the will to use force in a fight.
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This stubbornness is leaving the U.S. vulnerable to a double whammy: first earnings on US sales are shifted out of the US reducing tax liability, second a tax credit for foreign taxes paid further reduces US tax liability.
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If Democrats reject such a deal, the more independent minded and centER left voters at their behest will see them for what they really are: opportunists willing to squander the futures of 800,85033 people out of partisan stubbornness.
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Often underestimated by his opponents, including Rajoy and former socialist rival Susana Diaz, Sanchez gained a reputation for both perseverance and stubbornness when in 2016 he stuck to his "no means no" mantra against enabling a Rajoy government.
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Ms. Petruska has spent nearly every night since the fires tracking and trapping fire cats, as she calls them, the felines that for weeks have remained missing because of stubbornness, trauma, instinct, or a mix of all three.
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They say that in a fighter the last thing to leave him is his power but I wouldn't be surprised if in Ali—as a person just as a fighter—the last thing to go was that stubbornness.
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The season finale of "The Bachelorette" proved to be a dispiriting and genuinely unsettling affair as Rachel cried off her substantial false eyelashes over Peter's stubbornness and then dived headlong — but ultimately unconvincingly — into the chiropractor from Miami.
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"Her legitimacy was uncommon for pro-wrestling and she was an instant superstar," her Wrestling Scout entry states (the entry also chocks up her switch from amateur grappling to scripted fighting to her notorious stubbornness, for what it's worth).
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"Stubbornness is good, but the most important thing is not guarantees on entering (the EU), but to be stubborn about reforms," Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite told reporters at the biennial summit with Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Belarus.
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That's a tougher nut to crack, social conditioning and gender stereotypes being what they are — and the stubbornness of occupational segregation is one reason we've seen so little change on the wage gap in the 21st century, Hegewisch said.
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" In "Elle," he wrote, Ms. Huppert has "a passion, at once distant and inextinguishable, to suffer and to make others suffer, a sadomasochistic stubbornness of a kind we have probably never seen before in the history of French acting.
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On the one hand, there's Penelope fighting with all the stubbornness she's got against the idea that she might be depressed, that everything she's gone through might be taking some kind of toll on her beyond extreme sleep deprivation.
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He demonstrated his tenacity - some might say stubbornness - to the last, refusing to accept his expulsion from his own ZANU-PF party and clinging on for a week until parliament started to impeach him after the de facto coup.
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"Because of her stubbornness and her state of denial over the abuses in Rakhine and the international criticism she received, she became the main obstacle in resolving the case," said David S. Mathieson, an independent analyst of Myanmar's politics.
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With stubbornness and idealism, and armed with a formal vocabulary held in common with her Modernist peers, the Dickersons sought to prove that an authentic pictorial sensibility could take root anywhere, even in the middle of the Great Plains.
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Mad Dog Mattis' abrasive language may not resemble that of his predecessors in the post, but it's the language Trump admires in a retired general, and America needs a secretary of defense who can pierce Trump's shield of ego and stubbornness.
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Sieting's refusal to apologize — partly as a free-speech stance, he says, and partly out of stubbornness — presented a challenge for the locals who stood up to him: What would it take to unseat a bigot in small-town America?
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The world got a glimpse of his principles (and his stubbornness) in late March during an open congressional hearing when Comey pointedly contradicted President Trump by saying that he had no knowledge that the phones at Trump Tower had been tapped.
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Call it courage or stubbornness or a hybrid of the two—Daniels appears determined to talk about an alleged affair she had with the president in 2006, and the efforts by his associates to keep her quiet during the 2016 election.
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How dare America say so cavalierly, "Forgive us our sins and grant us our laurels," when forgiveness has never been sufficiently requested — nor the sins sufficiently acknowledged — and the laurels are tainted and stained by the stubbornness of historical fact.
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The Chicago Bulls, in their clubby and steakheaded stubbornness, are nearly as dysfunctional, to the point where the possibility of the team trading its best player is received as good news simply because it represents the possibility of something changing.
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They resist out of stubbornness, yes (and because they have the luxury to do so), but also because they see a threat to their sense of who they are, to their feeling of control over things that matter to them.
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In a cycle when Democrats might retake the Senate — with Pennsylvania as one of their most winnable seats — the resistance to Sestak is raising questions about at what point personal stubbornness becomes a campaign liability, for candidates and parties alike.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - A task force appointed by Michigan's governor said on Wednesday state officials showed stubbornness, lack of preparation, delay and inaction in failing to prevent a health crisis in the city of Flint caused by lead contamination in the drinking water.
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With customary stubbornness, he refused, eventually overcoming the jokes with a series of powerful performances that led to his being regarded, along with Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and James Dean, as actors of a postwar generation who brought tense realism to their craft.
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There is another reason why this may be one of the easier times to raise minimum wages and that is the stubbornness that wages have shown to rising even as the stock market booms and employers complain about not finding low-wage workers.
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Anthony drifted through Oklahoma City in somewhat of a stupor, with a game that balanced stubbornness, unconcern, and doubt on its way to poor shooting nights that quickly revealed him to be more a part of the pseudo-contender's problem than solution.
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"Certain traits of his -- his lack of desire to conduct politics as usual, his stubbornness -- will mean that should his relationship with the military sour or cool off, he might falter more quickly than politicians in the past, and more badly," said Afzal.
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In retrospect, we will never know whether a show of stubbornness -- like Trump's -- might have switched the political dynamic and persuaded the Senate to not convict, but we can instead be grateful that Nixon did not put the system to the test.
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While it makes sense that Fitbit wouldn't want the Apple Watch or some other fitness tracker using its excellent software (then what's the point of buying Fitbit hardware), the failure to integrate with existing solutions from phone operating systems just feels like sheer stubbornness.
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LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Britain must face down "the stubbornness of Dublin and Brussels" to make sure the country leaves the European Union on March 29, the Brexit spokesman of the Northern Irish party which props up Prime Minister Theresa May's government said on Monday.
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I spoke to Stephan Lewandowsky, a psychologist at the University of Bristol and co-author of The Debunking Handbook, to find out: Susannah Locke: There's evidence that when people stick with wrong facts, it isn't just stubbornness — but actually some sort of brain glitch.
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Oil, which influences other energy prices, rose to its highest since August above $50 a barrel on Monday, supported by a planned production cut by exporter club OPEC, although analysts cautioned the stubbornness of the existing supply overhang could temper a longer-lasting rally.
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Luckily, Adam's patience was just as strong as his stubbornness, and he put up with Sunday services, my parents prophesying over him, and the celibacy that I had committed to as a 13-year-old (despite the fact that I'd lost my purity ring, oops).
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ROME — As he flew near Caribbean islands devastated by Hurricane Irma on his way back to the Vatican from Colombia on Sunday, Pope Francis said that political leaders and others who denied climate change reminded him of a passage from the psalms about man's stubbornness.
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His writing was characterized, above all, by an incredible stubbornness, particularly on Iraq—an issue, Packer says, for which "Christopher made it a point of honor never to call retreat," even as it became clear that the war was a moral and strategic catastrophe.
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The Saudi response to that has been to emphasize its limited domestic success and to avoid the suggestion that pushing forward with it was another sign of MbS's stubbornness; contrary reporting has been described as merely an indication that foreigners don't understand the kingdom.
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"It is due to its nonsensical, irrational stubbornness that other issues can only be discussed after our country has completely verifiably, irreversibly dismantled our nuclear capabilities... without showing the intention to build trust including declaring the end of war," the newspaper said in an editorial.
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This is a show about knowing when your stubbornness is proper because you really are doing the right thing and when it's just getting in the way of other people because you want your way, and how hard it can be to tell the difference.
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The relationship they form is rich and complicated, but Anderson builds it around their idiosyncrasies and their stubbornness, and once it becomes clear how set both of them are in their ways, the story lays out endless possibilities for how their well-ordered world can fall apart.
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The fact remains that companies can choose to either get out ahead of the cord cutting trend by offering a better and cheaper product, or continue to stand, arms outstretched, in the middle of a raging river, believing stubbornness and denial can somehow change the water's course.
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While it wasn't quite the family reunion we might've hoped for — mostly since they still don't know they're related — this union of "Ice and Fire" (LOL SO META, GUYS) played out the only way it could've played out, given the reliable stubbornness of both Jon and Dany.
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His political brand is founded on stubbornness in the face of authority: He first became a national figure by refusing to take a Ten Commandments plaque off a courtroom he presided over as a judge, an act of defiance made him a folk hero in Alabama.
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I treated teaching as more or less an honor, for I learned many things from it I might otherwise not have known, the most important of which seems to me now the lesson in objectivity that comes from watching another person confront the stubbornness of destiny.
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There, devotion to the sport is an enthusiasm that unites 1.3 billion people, propels its finest exponents to a status of semi-divinity and seems to offer a shot at transformative victory to every slum kid with the physical gifts and stubbornness to master the game.
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And while I have nothing but confidence in his ability to survive on sheer stubbornness of will, it's probably for the best that he is saved by the sudden appearance of Akecheta (Zahn McClarnon), the very same Ghost Nation warrior who kidnapped Maeve's daughter (Jasmyn Rae) last week.
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The region remained dangerous for black travelers into the 1960s (the movie title refers to a guide, similar to one that AAA might have issued, to help them find safe passage), but Shirley undertook his tour of whites-only theaters and parlor venues out of civic obligation — and stubbornness.
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Starting at the edge of dawn, often lasting for days, always accompanied by the constant thud of house music, Magnus' soirees have become renowned for two things: the legendary levels of chemical ingestion, and the new peaks of sheer stubbornness they demonstrate when it comes to returning to reality.
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As I personally reviewed and analyzed this week's first presidential debate, which aired Monday night and was viewed by an estimated television audience of 80 million Americans (about 60 percent of the total number of voters from four years ago), I've been struck by two feelings: stubbornness and procrastination.
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In a track that draws its hurtling urgency from frenetic Afro-Cuban percussion and its stubbornness from a snaky repeating synthesizer line, Individuo cites African roots, the Black Panther Party and Afrika Bambaataa alongside figures like Juan Gualberto Gómez, who strove for Cuban independence from Spain and racial equality.
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In the last three years, some fans have turned up to games with signs pleading "WENGER OUT", citing his stubbornness in the transfer market and on the tactics board: the deft pass-and-move style that allowed Arsenal to dominate 15 years ago occasionally leaves them vulnerable against burly opponents.
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Britain has become so familiar with her weaknesses over the past year or so—her lack of human empathy, her habit of repeating the same monotonous phrase ("strong and stable", "nothing has changed"), her combination of stubbornness and weakness—that it is easy to forget that she has formidable qualities.
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He enjoyed boasting that he was quite a student of the game, and he loved to point out that Chicago held a distinction among all of the NBA's greatest squads—one that reflected on the greatness of Jordan but also, perhaps, on the necessary stubbornness of the man Jordan called Crumbs.
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While this ensures that a settlement is not dependent on the whim or stubbornness of a particular member, it also is less of a penalty for the member or staffer whose conduct led to the filing of the complaint than if their own or their office's funds were on the line.
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She was the sort of resident whose continuing presence in the area was the result of pure stubbornness, fiercely holding on to her dilapidated lodgings while contemporaries cashed out and moved away, to havens like Colorado or Nevada, where they would no longer be besieged by minorities recklessly driving expensive foreign sedans.
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Students and young designers just starting out often say Azzedine is their role model, because he did it his way, in his time frame, but they rarely understand the self-belief and stubbornness it took, and the time he spent in the wilderness, railing against a system everyone else was celebrating, working alone.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann Warren Sanders condemns his supporters' 'ugly, personal attacks' against Warren The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden riding wave of momentum after stunning Super Tuesday Delegate battle ahead likely favors Biden MORE (D-Mass.) seems determined to slog through the race out of some combination of stubbornness, righteous indignation and obliviousness.
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For the current study, researchers looked at people between the ages of 13 and 77 who had completed interviews about their work, personality, and family lives, which psychologists and psychiatrists then analyzed and ranked on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 having the most narcissistic traits like defensiveness, authoritativeness, and stubbornness.
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The stubbornness of benching Taylor—only the third Bills quarterback with a winning record since Jack Kemp retired in 1969—will go down as the second most stubborn act in the city of Buffalo's history behind refusing to admit that buffalo wings are overrated and the worst possible way to ingest chicken.
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As he spoke about Bolton's departure last Wednesday, Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "wanted nothing to do with" him during talks with the US. The president went on to say, "I don't blame Kim Jong Un."But not everyone in Washington is convinced that Bolton's stubbornness is what let to his departure.
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Advisers told the president early this month in a briefing that the economy could slow markedly over the next year, complicating his path to a second term, but his stubbornness has contributed to seesawing, contradictory messages, The Washington Post reports after interviewing two dozen sources in contact with Trump and the White House this month.
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Ricardo Rosselló fumbled the whole thing — due to a variety of reasons that includes being woefully unprepared for the disaster, the lack of a clear death reporting system, the island's debt crisis, and a stubbornness against updating the death toll that defies logic — leading to President Donald Trump showing even less interest in helping the U.S. territory.
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There was a time when bloated superteams smothered the postseason with thickly applied contract cheese and bottomless bowls of dingers—it wasn't nearly as long ago as it seems—but we are now in a less-predictable era of slow-burning stubbornness, with last year's Kansas City Royals the reigning champs in both the literal and figurative sense.
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It's hard to say why Trump doesn't comprehend the basic dynamics of congressional brinkmanship, but his stubbornness is the product of two factors that he introduced into the process: First, his ego-driven obsession with the negative coverage that awaits him when he reaches his 100th day in office without any significant legislative victories to his name.
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Recent attempts in several states to expand access to late-term abortions in anticipation of the possible overturning of Roe not only violate the view of the majority (who support greater restrictions after the first trimester) but will be seen by future generations as a last, desperate show of stubbornness in the face of human progress.
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My father, a strong believer in self-abnegation to the point that you were causing yourself and others pain for absolutely no reason at all except to satisfy your own stubbornness, had an unshakeable prejudice against cable television at a time when the Yankees were migrating increasing numbers of their games away from over-the-air stations.
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As Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama who was a top campaign official in 20163, tweeted on Wednesday: Periodic Reminder: the 2016 Dem primary is less heated/divisive than 08, its just that Twitter gives people an outlet they didnt have in 08 As she begins to pivot to the general election, Clinton might be peeved by Sanders's stubbornness.
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During what came to be known as the New York-New Jersey Line War, between 1701 and 1765, natives of those two provinces, fueled by cartographical ambiguity, legal disputation, political chicanery, royal favoritism, proprietary murkiness, territorial stubbornness, latitudinal chauvinism, and good old-fashioned greed, would occasionally shoot at one another, raid the others' camps, destroy their homes, and burn their crops.
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Yes, they kept pounding the post even as the league drifted beyond the arc, but that stylistic stubbornness is less admirable than the simple fact that they stayed in the fight for as long as they did against teams that were more elegant and more talented, even if knocking them out of the playoffs has mostly been beyond their reach.
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Music has given us examples like Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain's substance abuse; there are constant questions about how much David Foster Wallace's suicide is part of David Foster Wallace's legacy; Steve Jobs's stubbornness is legendary to the point that cancer experts say he could have lived if he had just listened to science; and so on and so forth.
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To the Editor: With all the ink that has been spent (actually wasted) on trying to decipher Hillary Clinton's character, the answer is much simpler and can be summarized in a few words: 1) arrogance (she thinks she doesn't need to follow the rules); 2) stubbornness (vehemently refusing to come clean with the facts); and 3) poor judgment (the source of many of her misfortunes).
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Conservative writer Kevin Williamson, who was hired and fired by The Atlantic in record time because of comments he had made about using hanging as a penalty for women who had abortions, has refused to apologize for anything he's ever said—though in that case Williamson is at least savvy about monetizing his stubbornness, publishing pieces in the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, and the Washington Post about the controversy.
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Like GOP nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, this candidate was older, successful in business, had a name well-known in their state and possessed the type of stubbornness that you often see in businessmen who seek elected office.
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The Jackals series is the conclusion of a 19-game swing in which the Cubans have faced the six Can-Am League teams — three in Canada, where the tour was conceived, and three in northern New Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y. Along the way, despite many Cuban pronouncements regarding the warmth and hospitality they have encountered, there has been evidence of old-world stubbornness, of the status quo, with a touch of tortured sportsmanship.
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Spectacles 3 seem to be geared entirely towards women, and I'm sure they made that call after seeing the active users of previous generations, but given the write-down they took on the first-generation, something tells me that Snap's continued experimentation here is borne out of some stubbornness form Spiegel and the higher-ups who want the Snap brand to live in a high fashion world and want to be at the forefront of an AR industry that seems to have already moved onto different things.
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