Again, this is nice to see: instead of pig-headedly fighting, on and on, keeping the bad blood alive, a concession is made with dignity and acceptance. From Wordnik.com. [One Step Forward, Two Steps Back] Reference
And if it doesn't, you don't subvert your agenda by pig-headedly charging ahead on an impeachment where there is no support in Congress for anything but failure. From Wordnik.com. [It's the People of Washington v. Pelosi et al] Reference
What market-oriented people do claim is that Europe has pig-headedly regulated its labor markets into shockingly high unemployment, and its economy into low growth. From Wordnik.com. [How Europe Goes Wrong, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
He was wrong but he pig-headedly refused to do anything about it with the arrogance his is famed for until his back-benchers threatened to bring down the entire budget the next year. From Wordnik.com. [Fisking Mike Ion on LabourList regarding voting against Labour] Reference
You know, if Sony pig-headedly pursues this, a case like this could be historic and set legal precedent establishing the status of blogs as journalism with full free speech protections vs. just being personal homepages of file-sharing kiddies. From Wordnik.com. [Sony TV: Bigger Losers Than Ken Jennings - Anil Dash] Reference
Or is it because you are an incompetent frumpish hysterical female, wholly out of her depth, who instead of acting in a civilised manner as one would expect from someone in your position, instead gives lectures which are downright rude, pig-headedly arrogant and most unladylike?. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Pravda Hammers Condoleeza Rice] Reference
I'll give him credit, he stood before the press and took it like a man, even injecting some rueful humor into a situation that has to be humiliating and galling for someone so arrogant and pig-headedly stubborn about listining to anyone but himself and a coterie of of power-hungry arch-conservative bigots. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
'For the first time the lyrics are actually an integral part of the music rather then being tacked on'That record was Andorra, Caribou's beautiful tribute to British pastoral psychedelia, which deservedly scooped the Polaris Prize Canada's equivalent to the Mercury in 2008, although Dan never intended to repeat the trick, "pig-headedly" choosing to do something very different with the follow-up, Swim. From Wordnik.com. [Caribou's Dan Snaith finds the formula for success with Swim] Reference
And, strange to say, Mormon men are pig-headedly jealous. From Wordnik.com. [The Rainbow Trail] Reference
Clark was advised to kill one or two of the deer, but he pig-headedly refused: and by the beginning of summer they were all dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Cloud] Reference
I was just pig-headedly goin 'ahead against it, not knowing nothing about the conditions, and it took a lady to show me what they were. From Wordnik.com. [In the Arena Stories of Political Life] Reference
It is so immeasurably more unpleasant to be frightful than to see that which is so, that I'm afraid my sympathies remain rather pig-headedly one-sided. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Some go on to say Matt, and the rest of the hosts / cohosts are no better than fundamentalist Christians in how we pig-headedly shove our opinions down the throats of others. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
He was accused of pig-headedly refusing to send enough troops to fight the conflict and of neglecting the vital task of nation-building in Iraq. resignation, Rumsfeld is publishing his own account of events, titled Known and Unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
An eternal optimist, Will is a very confident and energetic man, who’s sometimes just plain pig-headedly stubborn--a combination that’s allowed him to accomplish a lot in life. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
"He knows in his heart that the Ministry are pig-headedly wrong, and that we are in the right. From Wordnik.com. [In the Valley] Reference
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