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• a  tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
• s  not responding to treatment
  a stubborn infection
  stubborn rust stains

• The most stubborn fact of Lenin's life was that he had achieved the world's greatest political revolution.
• Carroll O'Connor wrung humanity out of his stubborn, racist character, without excusing him, like a man sucking the last wisp of smoke out of a cheap cigar.
• From sleepy colonial outpost to prosperous high-tech enclave, Singapore owes its rise to the stern, stubborn lawyer who virtually invented the place.

• obstinate
• unregenerate
• refractory

• docile

News & Articles

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• Pollution in Singapore Hits Record Level
  Singapore officials said the illegal burning of forestland to clear ground for new plantings in Indonesia is causing a stubborn haze.
  June 20, 2013 - New York Times
• Silverman: Top Line Comes Through As Blackhawks Square Series With Another OT Win
  Joel Quenneville is not too stubborn for his own good.
  June 20, 2013 - CBS Chicago
• Strong fire eats away at tire facility
  Several eastern Illinois fire crews are working on a massive, stubborn fire burning at a tire facility in Vermillion County.
  June 19, 2013 - WANE-TV Fort Wayne

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  In facing sudden crises or more stubborn challenges, the truth is we are all in this together _ as neighbors and fellow citizens,Obama said.
• Peter Hoekstra in Forbes
  The NIE makes clear that we cannot continue the same stubborn strategy that has brought us to this point in Iraq,said Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. "It also makes clear that we cannot...
• Harry Reid in International Herald Tribune
  Reid said the report "is another reminder of how President Bush's stubborn refusal to change course in Iraq and Congressional Republicans' willingness to rubber-stamp his failed strategy - has real consequences at home for all Americans."