Even in the influential american lobbies which usually back the israeli government anxiety is rising lest mr netanyahu 's obduracy prods america 's president into making support for the jewish state more conditional .
It is a tale of missed opportunities , obduracy and short-sightedness , all which are pushing the middle east towards greater instability .
这是关于错失良机,冷酷执拗,目光短浅的故事,以上种种将中东再次推向更加不稳定的境地。
Will hutton 's latest article was characteristically persuasive , but I fear that his argument and any associated attempts to be serious about tax will always founder on the twin reefs of public obduracy .
The problem has not simply been of ineptness on the part of the eurozone leaders or of obduracy on the side of the grey-haired technocrats at the european central bank though both elements , it should be said , have played their part .