Possible Clues:

• Inflexible, rejecting objections not made?
• Awkward pulling back bananas to eat - very black and yellow
• Son raised objection, destined to be refractory
• Persistent objections are raised and carried
• Dogged
• Dogged painter of horses docked on about third of March
• Rejected objections, fated to be intractable
• Unwilling to yield, created after objections overturned
• Pigheaded
• Pig-headed objections raised and almost carried