| Peaceful demonstrators are squaring off with stiff-necked authorities over the city's refusal to grant permission for the rally they want. |
| An attraction of OMA is that they are less stiff-necked than other practices. |
| Anyway, it was a beautiful sunny fresh powder type of day and a bunch of stiff-necked fools weren't going to spoil it. |
| Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame. |
| But if the stiff-necked transgressors cannot be persuaded, they can be cowed and conquered. |
| My sister jumps through hoops for her like a puppy seeking approval and I get stiff-necked in the face of Mother's orders and pronouncements. |
