Word Finder - headstrong

definition

Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.

example

He was in that headstrong teenage phase when he felt like he knew everything.

He was headstrong and determined.

Maggie is a very headstrong, confident girl living in a world ruled by men.

Many of it requires negotiations with headstrong warriors like A'Ran.

Charles Townshend, a brilliant, headstrong man, led parliament in the way which had been prepared by the Declaratory Act, and laid duties on tea and other articles of commerce entering the ports of America.

Some of you are too strong, too headstrong, too smart for God to use.

A headstrong individual can choose to ignore the operations plan, opting instead to incorporate his own untried ideas.

She sang several songs on the movie's official soundtrack, continuing her singing career by releasing her solo debut album -- Headstrong -- in February 2007 and that's what brings us to today.

Most people looking for Ashley Tisdale MP3 songs on the Internet will be interested in downloading free music from Headstrong.

Here is a list of several official sources for Ashley Tisdale music online, particularly songs from Headstrong.

There is also the ability to hear snippets from every track off of the Headstrong album, either via Windows Media Player or the Amazon Music Sampler.

Tisdale's first solo album, entitled Headstrong, was released in February 2007.

Headstrong went on to achieve gold status in the United States, with 500,000 copies sold.

Kris heard what Kiki didn't say, that only Andre had been able to keep the Council together after their father's death.  The six headstrong brothers of the Council That Was Seven had respected Andre, who was an adult when the rest of the brothers were born.

But Charles, rightly surnamed the Bold or Headstrong, did not possess the qualities of a builder of states.

Lord John Russell, who did not want to offend his popular and headstrong colleague, did his best to smooth things over; but the queen remained exceedingly sore, and tried hard to get Palmerston removed, without success.

To those who began to despair of success, and advised him to conclude peace on almost any terms so as to avoid greater disasters, he turned a deaf ear, and brought the campaign to a successful conclusion; but when his more headstrong advisers urged him to insist on terms which would probably have produced a conflict with Great Britain and Austria, he resolved, after some hesitation, to make the requisite concessions.

Indifference and satiety spread speedily; the bourgeoisie forsook the reformers directly they had recourse to violence (February 1358), and the Parisians became hostile when Etienne Marcel complicated his revolutionary work by intrigues with Navarre, releasing from prison the grandson of Louis X., the Headstrong, an ambitious, fine-spoken courter of popularity, covetous of the royal crown.

Anne de Montmorency, now head of the government in place of the headstrong chancellor Duprat, for four years upheld a policy of reconciliation and of almost friendly agreement between the two monarchs (1531-1535).

In the body, Aries rules the head, partially explaining why they can be so headstrong and subject to high fevers.

Taurus ' influence inclines you to be somewhat headstrong, with a very set and determined manner.

William Elliot Whitmore tho, is nothing if not headstrong and earnestly pushes on, undistracted by the background noise.

But he was still headstrong and ill-tempered; and he was often in trouble with the other sailors.

Two headstrong Alpha dogs are going to have a difficult time getting along no matter which sex they are.

The only female chosen to defend the Earthrealm, Sonya is headstrong and impulsive.

In contrast, Kyle conveyed the image of a headstrong woman who can be abrasive and aggressive.

Of a headstrong temperament, Saisset as abbot energetically sustained the struggle with the counts of Foix, begun two centuries before, for the lordship of the city of Pamiers, which had been shared between the counts and abbots by the feudal contract of pariage.

Richelieu, therefore, passed his time in safeguarding himself from his rivals and in spying upon them; his suspicious nature, rendered still more irritable by his painful practice of a dissimulation repugnant to his headstrong character, making him fancy himself threatened more than was actually the case.

A popular and successful democratic leader, he cannot, however, be ranked among the great statesmen of the republic. As a general he was headstrong and selfsufficient and seems to have owed his victories chiefly to personal boldness favoured by good fortune.

He supplied the momentum which was necessary to counteract the caution of Burghley and Elizabeth; but it was probably fortunate that his headstrong counsels were generally overruled by the circumspection of his sovereign.