Sentence examples for a stubborn insistence from inspiring English sources

Putin might also be hampered by a stubborn insistence on using only the red dots, or by insisting on playing shirtless and on horseback.

Yet he has vulnerabilities, not least a stubborn insistence that he knows how to close a predicted $8 billion hole in the state budget while refusing to explain how.

A stubborn insistence on preserving an independent auto industry will not only cost Korea dearly, it will delay the economic rationalization the country so badly needs.

Last year, a stubborn insistence on running a viciously negative presidential, "gotcha" type of campaign cost them the White House.

But the NRA's response to a series of mass killings -- opposition to all gun control legislation and a stubborn insistence that wider availability of guns will reduce violence -- makes the Newtown shooter look relatively sane.

But surely the remedy for this deficiency is more research, not a stubborn insistence that what we don't know can't hurt us.

Since then, almost in parallel, the British authorities have displayed a growing and stubborn insistence that parts of the Litvinenko story relating to the Russian state and the British security services should never be told.

Like the Aardman movies, "ParaNorman" was made with physical puppets and sets, and an almost tenderly stubborn insistence on the human touch.

He had nearly died, the doctor told her, because of her stubborn insistence on a natural birth.

In Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza's stubborn insistence on a third term has led to hundreds of deaths and created a refugee crisis.

But the loudest squawks are about money.Money has been at the root of the EU's worst rows, most memorably Margaret Thatcher's stubborn insistence on a refund for Britain in the 1980s.