Alternatively, the specific aspects of negative emotionality (angryobstinatebehavior or fearful unadaptive behavior) may reflect aspects of infant behavior showing stability or continuity from infancy through toddlerhood.
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His sense for unjust treatment and solidarity with others soon made him emerge as a politicallyobstinate' trouble maker ' in the eyes of white employers and authorities.
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In the first few prosecutions, if you happen to run up against a fewobstinatefellows.
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I am veryobstinateand obtuse about matters of that sort.
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He was averse to hoo-ha, could be veryobstinate, yet was at times almost shy.
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Did not theirobstinateattitude in rejecting selectivity result in a temporary shortage of machinery for some categories of cloth?
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I have generally found that the very last way to get anything out of anobstinateman is to tell him that he isobstinate.
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The more he is advised the moreobstinatehe is.
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I should not like to be thoughtobstinateand resistant on a matter of this kind.
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He is always charming, but he will be asobstinateat the end of the party as he is at the beginning.
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If he provedobstinate, he could be taken to the police station and detained.
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In short, it is anobstinaterefusal and one which is not in any sense based on logic.
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The young are not noticeably tolerant of interference, and the old are of course especiallyobstinate.
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Ever since he made those statements, representations have been made almost daily to him to declare his policy, and he has persisted inobstinatesilence.
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If there is one thing more clear than another it is the vitality, theobstinatevitality, of denominational schools.
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