If, instead, you try to change him he will stubbornly resist.
Like many other things in our society, some old ways stubbornly resist change.
The Chinese continued to resist stubbornly and no progress was made.
"At the last analysis, people stubbornly resisted a Labor government," she said.
I tried to burst open the door; but it stubbornly resisted.
Both stubbornly resisted his efforts to get them to leave the clearing.
"I'm not so sure it would be a good thing," she resisted stubbornly.
She uses magic to try to break his will, but he resists stubbornly.
The American soldiers who had been sleeping in a wooden building stubbornly resisted.
Periodically he tried to make the women take shelter among the trees, but they resisted stubbornly.