"obstinados" in English

Four years of negotiations means of course four years of toil on both sides.

We are not keen on starting a cumbersome procedure in two or three years time.

Have they not then journeyed in the land and seen what was the end of those before them?

I agree with Lenin, who said that facts are stubborn: you are facing the facts, so acknowledge them!

They called on the Book of Allah to decide disputes between them; and then a sect of them turned their backs and opposes it;.

We are being consistent or even stubborn, but not because acting differently would mean abandoning our values.

We had stubborn partners but Parliament provided some good reasons as to why responsibilities should be given to this House.

In every valley the people determine their often stubborn points-of-view and they do not appreciate outside interference.

Even so did those before them; Allah did not wrong them; but it was themselves they wronged.

Mr President-in-Office of the Council, the facts are indisputable and do not currently allow for the cautious optimism you have expressed with regard to the Middle East.

Of course we will push others to adopt similar rules, but reform at the international level is difficult and some of our key partners are, frankly, stubborn.

And of those of the wandering Arabs of the desert who are round about you, some are hypocrites, and some of the people of Medina persist in hypocrisy; you do not know them.

We hope that, eventually, the blinded military dictators of Burma will finally see the light of sense and democracy and hand over power to a civilian-elected government.

The Lisbon aspiration has been an ambitious one, and it has taken dogged and indefatigable rapporteurs, as well as a quite determined Commissioner, to reach the stage we are at tonight.