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• Each has a definite idea that one or the other of the roads mentioned above is the Old Trace and is eager, at the drop of a hat, to defend his position obstinately, profanely, and at great length.
• Angered that Pickett would praise a political machine who obstinately resisted racial integration, Wilder threatened to make an independent bid for the seat if Pickett won the nomination.
• Willems was thereafter held until he was condemned by a group of seven judges, who, quoting Willems' "persisting obstinately in his opinion", ordered that he be burned at the stake on 16 May 1569, as well as that all his property be confiscated "for the benefit of his royal majesty".
• " A less enthusiastic review by Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it a "dogged, obstinately despairing parable" that "is strewn with gauche little appeals for sympathy.
• The kings of Georgia sat at Kutaisi in western Georgia from which they ran all of what had been the Kingdom of Abkhazia and a greater portion of Iberia/Kartli; Tao/Tayk had been lost to the Byzantines while a Muslim emir remained in Tbilisi and the kings of Kakheti obstinately defended their autonomy in easternmost Georgia.
• On one occasion Samuel even made his love for his own people subsidiary to his loyalty to the Persian king and to his strict view of the duties of a citizen; for when the news came that the Persians, on capturing Mazaca, had killed 12,000 Jews who had obstinately opposed them, Samuel refrained from displaying any sorrow.
• More negatively, Ronald Bergan and Robyn Karney wrote in the Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide that "the film obstinately refuses to cast light on its characters, making it no more than a superficial and sporadically entertaining exercise", and Geoff Andrew described the film in the Time Out Film Guide as "Charmless", saying it "irritates by its over-wrought sense of literary-style paradox, by its insistence on eccentricity as its source of humour".
• In the Catholic Church, the anointing of the sick, also known as Extreme Unction, is a Catholic sacrament that is administered to a Catholic "who, having reached the age of reason, begins to be in danger due to sickness or old age", except in the case of those who "persevere obstinately in manifest grave sin".
• Sonny Chiba is slickly venal as an oily, smooth-talking gangster and Ko Nishimura convincing as always, as an elder boss obstinately sticking to his guns.
• His English and Italian were both equally brusque (John Ward-Perkins recalled a 'flow of impeccably idiomatic Italian spoken in an accent which to his dying day remained obstinately British'), and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "shy with strangers, blunt with acquaintances, and devoted to his friends".
• Hoping for assistance from the Franks, the Lucchesi obstinately resisted the attack of Narses, surrendering only after a siege of seven months (553).
• An almost constant rhythmic substructure in 4/16 time is produced by the staccato of the piano, repeated plaintive fourths in the violins, and an obstinately repeated G in semiquavers in the contrabasses.

• Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.

• Robert Zintl reported that a Lokalbahn line was affectionately called the Bockela or Bockl because most of the trains on these lines "now and then bucked and kicked somewhat obstinately like a stroppy little billy goat" (hie und da etwas eigenwillig bockte und stieß wie ein gereiztes Böcklein).
• In 1634, when he is described as of Witley, Surrey, he was complained of for obstinately refusing to pay taxations in the tithing of Enton, in the parish of Godalming, where he had an estate.
• In criminal law he objected to the forced unanimity of the jury, the Latin record of the proceedings, the refusal of counsel to those charged with felony, the practice of pressing to death obstinately mute prisoners, capital punishment for trifling offences, 'the oppressions and extortions of gaolers,’ and generally the bad management of gaols.
• Davide Turrini from Il Fatto Quotidiano and Aldo Spiniello on Sentieri Selvaggi recognize in this debut work the influence of the Dardenne brothers, especially in the "autonomous and stubborn direction with a handheld camera obstinately following behind the protagonist's shoulders" that "captures the fears, uncertainties, hopes, and emotions, focusing solely on movements, gestures, and external attitudes" of "a tough Alba Rohrwacher".

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