obdurate

But it faces an obdurate, well-armed and angry enemy.

Jordan Clark and Kemar Roach ran down the overs with an obdurate partnership before the former was bowled by Vaughan for a 47-ball duck.

During the New Deal, the most obdurate critics of Franklin Roosevelt’s policies were Democrats — Southern Democrats, to be sure, but his party members nonetheless — while among his most loyal supporters were liberal Republicans.

Its leader, Wayne LaPierre, was the face of obdurate resistance to regulations on firearms.

But wicketkeeper Jurel looked assured and Ashwin was typically obdurate.