They do not like compulsion applied to them and if they think compulsion to save is being applied to them, they can adopt a mulish attitude.
That state of mind can perhaps be best described as mulish immobility—the refusal of a considerable number of dons to recognise that the shape of universities has changed.
That is an act of crass and mulish stupidity which could open the door to those outside influences which our friends in the region fear most.
Their opposition derives from a mulish obstinacy which directly harms the electorate; it does not rest on logic or reasoning, and it is not worth listening to.
In his mulish, stubborn way he simply dismissed it.
There seems to be a mulish attitude among those people who have to do with civil defence in regard to wireless.
We found his attitude as mulish as that of his predecessor—argumentative with no imagination.
We have partial selection, which is a rather mulish form of paradox.
