Charles I was most assuredly not executed for his preference for the antique links between Scotland and France, but for his perceived treachery in bringing about the Second English Civil War in 1648, and because his political obduracy had created a constitutional impasse.
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For James, whose experience of parliaments was limited to the stage-managed and semi-feudal Scottish variety, the self-assurance and obduracy of the English version, which had long experience of upsetting monarchs, was an obvious shock.
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To begin with Protestantism in France, largely Calvinist in direction, made steady progress across large sections of the nation, in the urban bourgeoisie and parts of the aristocracy, appealing to people alienated by the obduracy and the complacency of the Catholic establishment.
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Above all, America's diffidence towards the Israeli government contrasts with almost everybody else's impatience at Israeli obduracy _ and with its own rigor towards the states it regards as " pariahs " : Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya.
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He added : " The result would be a dramatic illustration that obduracy has the same rewards as acceptance, and so the program itself would become self-defeating, even hypocritical, in the eyes of those whom it seeks to help ."
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Yet for all the frustration within Israel and Washington over what some regard as Assad's obduracy, the tortured diplomatic wrangling over the Golan Heights obscures a larger reality : there has been a slow but steady opening within Syria itself in the past two years.
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There's no mystery about why : Inventories were down because of the unusually long winter, a fire in California closed a Shell Oil refinery, and Saddam Hussein's obduracy is keeping 500, 000 barrels a day of Iraqi crude off the international market.
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"The one thing I've been increasingly impressed by is the obduracy to real change here, " said Walter F . Mondale, the U . S . ambassador to Japan, who arrived a year ago brimming with optimism over what could be accomplished.
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In a press statement, Syed Salahuddin, head of the United Jehad Council, blamed the Kashmir crisis on " the intransigence and obduracy of the Indian government " and the " ineffectiveness " of the United Nations in allowing Kashmiris to decide their own future.
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Despite heavy persecution by Henry II, the Reformed Church of France, largely Calvinist in direction, made steady progress across large sections of the nation, in the urban bourgeoisie and parts of the aristocracy, appealing to people alienated by the obduracy and the complacency of the Catholic establishment.
