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• n  the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome
• n  resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires

• His name sounds like "John Wayne," and Jiang Wen has a solid star bearing to go with the cowboy stubbornness.
• The Arizona Senator has also been hurt by sticking with one of his traditional strengths: stubbornness.
• This is the sort of intellectual stubbornness that rarely makes an appearance in Washington today.

• obstinacy
• obstinance
• mulishness
• bullheadedness
• pigheadedness
• self-will

News & Articles

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• John Oliver Tears Into GOP Over Immigration Reform: A ‘Border Fence Built Out Of Ignorance And Spite’
  John Oliver opened tonight's Daily Show tearing into the Republican party for their stubbornness in holding back immigration reform from becoming law. Congress, which Oliver said is in a "nail-biting three-way tie for least popular branch of government," is set to take up a bill, but there's been a lot of resistance in the GOP, which Oliver described as a "1000-foot high border fence built out ...
  June 19, 2013 - Mediaite

Quotes

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• Rick Perry in News 8 Austin
  You embody the rugged endurance of the American spirit and that unique Texas stubbornness that has caused our republic and our state to endure,Perry said.
• Nick Clegg in Independent
  Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, said: "It is pig-headed stubbornness for the Government to push on with extending pre-charge detention."
• Romano Prodi in Forbes
  In a final appeal for support to senators, Prodi said holding the risky Senate vote was "not a gesture of stubbornness but of being consistent."