Obstinate Russian resistance, members of which declared the Patriotic War, brought Napoleon a disastrous defeat: Less than 30, 000 of his troops returned to their homeland.

Obstinate and Pliable go after Christian to bring him back, but Christian refuses.

* Obstinate, one of the two residents of the City of Destruction, who run after Christian when he first sets out, in order to bring him back.

His cousin Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich left a damaging description about him: " Try as I will ,” he wrote, “ I cannot find a single redeeming feature in his character … Obstinate, arrogant, disagreeable, he flaunted his many peculiarities in the face of the entire nation … " Later writers have accused him of sadism.

Obstinate in defeat, Saruman abuses Gríma, who responds by slitting his master's throat.

Obstinate returns disgusted, but Pliable is persuaded to go with Christian, hoping to take advantage of the paradise that Christian claims lies at the end of his journey.

" Lord Melody ", for example, wished to indicate that he was the lord of melodious singing, while " King Obstinate " of Antigua gained his name as a young man in his home village of Greenbay, where people declared his attitude to be " obstinate " or mule-headed.

Leader of the elite army unit Obstinate Arrow.

“‘ Loquacious with an Obstinate Silence ’: Sexual and Textual Subversions in Freud ’ s Dora and Fowles ’ A Maggot .” Law and Literature 15. 2 ( 2003 ): 209-29.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to `` pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it ''.

But in this approach it is the artist's ultimate insight, rather than his immediate impressions, that gives form to the work.

An order can be chanced rather than chosen, and this approach produces an experience that is `` free and discovered rather than bound and remembered ''.

Repeated efforts -- beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1821 -- were made by such master moderates as Clay and Douglas to resolve the difference peacefully by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely action.

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.

What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.

This strange person quarrels with a cyclist because the latter is using the path rather than the highroad.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.

And the basic character of that liberalism has been spiritual rather than economic.

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

We are tempted to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight in the face and realize they are of our own making and possible of solution only by ourselves with the help of desperately needed, enlightened, competent leaders.

In 1927 his father's business collapsed, and, rather than go bankrupt, Mercer senior turned his firm over to a bank for liquidation.

Descartes does not use this first certainty, the cogito, as a foundation upon which to build further knowledge ; rather, it is the firm ground upon which he can stand as he works to restore his beliefs.

An economy based on economic planning ( either through the state, an association of worker cooperatives or another economic entity that has jurisdiction over the means of production ) appropriates its resources as needed, so that allocation comes in the form of internal transfers rather than market transactions involving the purchasing of assets by one government agency or firm by another.

Hence, Moseley's discovery demonstrated that the atomic numbers of elements are not just rather arbitrary numbers based on chemistry and the intuition of chemists, but rather, they have a firm experimental basis from the physics of their X-ray spectra.

A British documentary on the Krupp family and firm included footage of German-speakers of the 1930s who would have had speaking contact with the family, which attests the long, thus or rather than what would be the logical German spelling pronunciation, or.

In other words each firm feels free to set prices as if it were a monopoly rather than an oligopoly.

This type of market is practically a monopoly and an attached perfectly competitive market in which price is set by the dominant firm rather than the market.

The model assumes that there are two “ equally positioned firms ”; the firms compete on the basis of quantity rather than price and each firm makes an “ output decision assuming that the other firm ’ s behavior is fixed .” The market demand curve is assumed to be linear and marginal costs are constant.

Thus in determining whether to shut down a firm should compare total revenue to total variable costs ( VC ) rather than total costs ( FC + VC ).

Paine's creed encapsulates many of the major themes of the rest of his text: a firm belief in a creator-God ; a skepticism regarding most supernatural claims ( here the afterlife, later in the text, miracles ); a conviction that virtues should be derived from a consideration for others rather than oneself ; an animus against corrupt religious institutions ; and an emphasis on the individual's right of conscience.

As they also absolutely intended to proceed with the execution against us, we came to a unanimous agreement among ourselves that, regardless of any loss of life and limb, honor and property, we would stand firm, with all for one and one for all ... nor would we be subservient, but rather we would loyally help and protect each other to the utmost, against all difficulties.

Often, secondary buyouts have been successful if the investment has reached an age where it is necessary or desirable to sell rather than hold the investment further or where the investment had already generated significant value for the selling firm.

Even if a firm chooses to use its own funds in an investment, the interest rate represents an opportunity cost of investing those funds rather than lending out that amount of money for interest.

Claudette Colbert won the award for It Happened One Night but the uproar led to a change in Academy voting procedures the following year, whereby nominations were determined by votes from all eligible members of a particular branch, rather than by a smaller committee, with results independently tabulated by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse.

" Although he maintained his role as a firm anti-communist, he was attacked by various anti-communists for not taking a more active role in attacking communism abroad and domestically, rather than hew to Acheson's policy of containment of communist expansion.

" He is a person with an impeccable past, generous sentiments and deep religious and humanist training, but whose excessive sensitivity and poetic temperament have led him to act in accordance with the passion of the moment rather than calm, firm will.

No one firm controlled the industry, and fierce competition ensured that innovation in both hardware and software was the rule rather than the exception.

The confusion is old, probably inspired by William of Malmesbury and embellished by John of Fordun, but there is no firm evidence that the kingdom of Strathclyde was a part of the kingdom of the Scots, rather than a loosely subjected kingdom, before the time of Máel Coluim II of Scotland's great-grandson Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.

In most English speaking venues, the two word term stock broker, like stock brokerage, normally applies to the brokerage firm, rather than to the individual.

wrote about applications of mathematics as a central theme to this topic and suggested that successful use can trump, sometimes, proof, in the following sense: where a theorem has evident veracity through applicability, later evidence that shows the theorem's proof to be problematic would result more in trying to firm up the theorem rather than in trying to redo the applications or to deny results obtained to date.

In this popular magazine of its day he is described as: " rather below the middle height, firm, wiry and muscular, inured to actitve exercise of all kinds, a good swimmer, an accomplished skater, an intense lover of the fresh breezes of heaven.

On July 20, 2006, the newly formed Indian Motorcycle Company, owned largely by Stellican Limited, a London-based private equity firm, announced its new home in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, where it has restarted the Indian motorcycle brand, manufacturing Indian Chief motorcycles in limited numbers, with a focus on exclusivity rather than performance, like a ' luxury ' watch.