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Перевод: pertinacious

[прилагательное]
упрямый; неуступчивый; упорный

Тезаурус:

1. Yet throughout the seventeenth century no diplomats were more pertinacious than those of Russia in asserting what they claimed as the honorific rights of their master.
2. Still more irritating was the fact that whilst Vaughan laboured slowly, working up his ideas through a series of studies, Minton dashed out striking designs with astonishing facility, working with fierce concentration and a pertinacious resistance to interruptions.
3. But a pertinacious local opposition, headed by Prior Roger of Durham and Archdeacon Ranulf (the nephew of Ranulf Flambard, q.v.), persuaded Innocent II to order a free election and to enjoin David to stop supporting Cumin.
4. Another incident which raised sovereignty as a public and formal issue was more complex: the formal cause was not indignation but the pertinacious enthusiasm of an Ajdabiyan municipal policeman.
5. According to Rupert Sutcliffe, the most senior member of the Department, and its most pertinacious gossip, there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other.
6. But pupils of the more pertinacious sort profited greatly from his teaching and his company.
7. She was pertinacious in her behaviour and damned the mayor".