obduracy

With an obduracy that Trump no doubt admired, Stefanik refused to resign.

She has good qualifications: a strong physique, single-mindedness, obduracy.

But a year later, more than two dozen of them remain stuck in Afghanistan, stalled by bureaucratic wrangling, the vagaries of international diplomacy and the obduracy of the Taliban government.

I did get a better understanding of the deep roots of this endless battle, the obduracy of both sides.

The nearly 100-member caucus is wrong about all matters of public policy, but its obduracy is constitutionally wholesome.