Their adamant resistance to his leaving the motor home is for a moment frustrating.

However, she is met with adamant resistance from her mother-in-law, who views Ka-Nam as bad luck, blaming her for the death of her son.

In his adamant resistance to change, he broke his Presidency and shattered the possibilities of his loyal Vice President, Hubert Humphrey.

For all that, Abigail's persistence had begun undermining his adamant resistance, rather like a mountain stream slowly and patiently washing away one tiny fragment of a boulder at a time.

And since then, beset by conflicting political pressures at home and adamant resistance by the Haitian military clique, the White House, Mr. Jennings notes sharply, has alternated between threats and retreats.

SNCC had begun organizing black citizens to register to vote in Selma in 1963, but made little headway against the adamant resistance of Sheriff Jim Clark and the White Citizens' Council.

In 1546 Ferdinand used all his influence with Paul III to have Jay named bishop of Trieste, only to be frustrated by Ignatius's adamant resistance to the idea that any member of the Society assume a position in the hierarchy.