The doggedness that has won her many admirers now looks like pig-headedness.
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He was accused variously of delusional ambition, extravagant showmanship, duplicity, pig-headedness and worse.
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The joke is supposed to be in line with Peter Griffin's characteristic arrogant pig-headedness.
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We were hoping our daughter would get my looks and my husband's temperament; instead she seems to have inherited his pale skin and my pig-headedness.
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My experience is that it's based on being opportunistic, and having the guts, pig-headedness, or blind ambition to grab something when it comes and make the best out of it as you can.
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Dan Ramsay, played by Syd Conabere, made his first screen appearance on 26 August 1986. The character arrived in Erinsborough after being thrown out by his wife, Edna (Jessica Noad). Josephine Monroe, author of The Neighbours Programme Guide, quipped that it was apparent where Dan's sons Max (Francis Bell) and Tom (Gary Files) got their "pig-headedness" from and thought he was worse than both of them put together.Monroe 1994, p.86–7.
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Indeed, the price of scrap remained depressed until 1937, well after Cox had effectively retired from salvage. A plain spoken and often blunt man, Cox was known for his explosive temper; he was respected by his workers as being brilliant, hard working and stubborn to the point of pig-headedness. He did not spare either his workers or himself during the eight years he remained at Scapa Flow. He kept his business afloat by common sense and good judgement, such as the salvage of coal from the wreck of the Seydlitz to provide fuel for his machinery during the General Strike of 1926.
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After the opening pages in the desert which are set in the narrator's present, the narrator recounts events from his past which begin to explain his present nature and situation. The narrator, a French Catholic from the Protestant Massif Central region, left his home to work as a Christian missionary to the Tribes in the closed city of Taghaza, Mali. His mentor warns him that he is not yet ready for such a task but in his self-confessed 'pig- headedness' he decides to go anyway. Upon arrival, his guide turns on him and robs him leaving him in the desert.
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If Kashmir remains > independent, well and good ... .But if the Maharaja through pig headedness > and bad advice, political pressure or attractive remunerations accedes to > Hindustan, then there will be trouble here!Yaqoob Khan Bangash (2010) Three > Forgotten Accessions: Gilgit, Hunza and Nagar, The Journal of Imperial and > Commonwealth History, 38:1, 127, DOI: 10.1080/03086530903538269 Sensing their discontent, Brown mutinied on 1 November 1947, overthrowing the Governor Ghansara Singh. The bloodless coup d'etat was planned by Brown to the last detail under the code name `Datta Khel'. On the morning of 2 November 1947, after the Pakistan flag had been raised in scout lines, a provisional government (Aburi Hakoomat) was established with Shah Rais Khan as president, Mirza Hassan khan as commander in chief and Major Brown as the chief military advisor.
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