adamancy
adamance

Yet at the same time you refused to explain the source of your adamancy.

But he seemed thoroughly genuine in his adamancy against the killings.

I, too, question is adamancy on building the Mosque right now, so close to a tragic, almost holy, site.

He alienated many of the trustees by his adamancy, and the building was left completely to Twilight.

Therefore, she sent the Guangshen a nickname - "Fee adamancy."

This provincial adamancy often took the form of official statements calling for greater provincial influence on federal involvement in international policy development.

And for all her adamancy, even Ms. Hammett occasionally makes use of the Web.

The adamancy of Kafka's imagery can be found in Ms. Pondick's as well.

His adamancy has driven Republicans together in desperation, settling on a strategy of slogging through a painful shutdown battle with Obama.

At first he is a victim of the media's accusations of malpractice and his blind adamancy about his innocence is affecting.

Mr. Mandela's adamancy has been taken by some as evidence that he is yielding to hard-liners in the congress who oppose dealing with the white minority Government.

After his dismissal they cited his adamancy about the taping and his position on the death penalty case as two major reasons for his dismissal.

At Taba the Palestinians also insisted, with renewed adamancy, on another condition that had been lying somewhat dormant in the background of the Oslo process.

The storm caused by the document was calmed by the political skills of the prime minister and through a lessened adamancy on the part of Kesk.

Kellner's adamancy that signs are necessary to understand one's culture is what he analyzes from the evidence that most cultures have used signs in place of existence.

Jerry said the boy would be all right, there was nothing here that could harm him, and even as he spoke, his tone changed to one of adamancy, of command.

"Clearly, the adamancy of his stand is linked to his Presidential ambitions," said Larry J. Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.

Mr. Giuliani's adamancy in budget negotiations has also driven a wedge between him and another potential ideological soul mate, City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone.

It was only then perhaps that Carroll fully realized his own - and his church's - adamancy about keeping an almost neurotic distance from the unequaled crimes of the Reich.

They all knew that that romance had become more serious with every performance of "Danny Boy," and that only the black girl's adamancy about H prevented it from going further.

But the director's adamancy paid off when locals kind of understood the director more than his team, and almost the entire village stood up lending a hand in any way they could support the production.

His amanuenses, schooled musicians who transcribed on paper what he played for them in his clumsy manner, recall his adamancy about what he wanted, down to the voicings of chords.

There was an evening to pass before the midnight flight to London and, despite Tucker's adamancy that Miss Kennedy wouldn't see her, she taxied to the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road.

But for many Czechs, the adamancy of the Slovak campaign to change the country's name recalls a similar change that preceded the creation of the nominally independent Slovak state by Germany in 1939.

His seeming adamancy brought a flash of tension to a day in which the eight leaders sought to show that they stood tall in common cause on trouble spots from Bosnia and Herzegovina to North Korea.