His is an individual engagement based on a personal obstinacy.
What may at first glance look like shyness or obstinacy is actually something far more complex--and much more interesting.
Rudd's other great achievement since taking office also required overturning years of government obstinacy: he ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
Japan's DoCoMo holds out to iPhone mania, but at what cost? By Sophie Knight and Maki Shiraki TOKYO (Reuters) - NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's largest mobile provider and a pioneer of the mobile Internet, is one of just a few holdouts among the world's big mobile carriers not offering Apple Inc's iPhone to its 60 million customers. It is paying heavily for that obstinacy - with a net 3.2 million users jumping ship to its two domestic rivals over the last 4-1/2 ...
July 5, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News