Word: stubborn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lawyer Stephen Jones, he has thrown himself into the challenge. His first order of business, he says, is to get his client's version of events. He insists that McVeigh does not resemble the stubborn, arrogant character portrayed in the media. "Mr. McVeigh is articulate and intelligent," Jones says. "He's definitely distressed and anguished about the charges. But when I saw him last, I think he was in good spirits." Jones has not yet disclosed whether he will seek a change of venue for the trial, but does say McVeigh wishes to plead not guilty. "I tell clients, based...
...round to woo the Le Pen voters. He began hammering on issues like law- and-order and the fight against the legacy of socialism. Now Chirac must achieve something in the office he has sought so eagerly for so long. Most important, he must address unemployment. It is a stubborn problem: France has recovered from the global recession of the late 1980s and early '90s much more slowly than the U.S. or most of its European neighbors. Having automated heavily in the '80s, moreover, France has a high level of structural unemployment that is aggravated by rigid labor laws...
From the beginning, we are impressed with Jade's engaging character. Her irreverent witticisms are refreshingly down-to-earth, and her surprisingly low-voiced thespian soliloquies are dramatic, if not wholly sensical. Also, Jade's repeated efforts to appease her aggravatingly stubborn disciplinarian father garner audience sympathy...
...peaceful place like Oklahoma City. President Clinton mustn't be mad that the nation's principles and traditions are violated again. The real question is: why did these animals choose America to attack at all? Doesn't America just care about too much about other countries--which causes those stubborn countries to rebel--while caring too little about itself...
...SPRING OF 1834, Harvard College went berserk. Josiah Quincy, president of Harvard University at the time, wrote the parents of the College on June 4 to inform them of "the nature and course of these outrages." In his letter, he describes how the difficulties all began with one stubborn student in Greek class. "On being told by his Instructor that when 'he directed anything to be translated, he expected it would be done,' the student replied, 'I do not recognize your authority,' shut his book and paid no attention to his recitation afterward." The 23-year old student chose...