Sentence examples for held stubborn from inspiring English sources

The "miasma theory" that diseases were caused by noxious vapour in the air held stubborn sway, leading the well-meaning social reformer Edwin Chadwick – insisting that "all smell is disease" – to hasten the abandonment of stinking cesspools in favour of flushing the sewers into the Thames.

To get this futuristic effect I used a creamy full coverage foundation to conceal brow color and then flattened the brows with eyelash glue which also held stubborn brow hairs in place.

We all recognise a distinction between believing something and knowing it: there are plenty of false beliefs many held with stubborn conviction but there is no false knowledge, for knowing something entails that it is true.

Texas 28, Colorado 14 Major Applewhite threw 3 touchdown passes, 2 of them to the freshman receiver Roy Williams, and Texas (No. 25 A.P). held off stubborn Colorado in Boulder.

"Being an effectively nice co-worker is superior to trying to hold a stubborn line," said Denice Loritsch.

Whether the case in question is corporate power versus labor, consumers, or environmentalists, the make up of the Supreme Court today holds a stubborn 5-4 magainst against people and in favor of corporations, and will continue to do so for quite some time.

Song structures are fractured and arbitrary, held together by stubborn force of will and sheer muscle.

She also held on to a stubborn selectivity.

So far, though, Hagan has held a small but stubborn lead in the polls — about three percentage points, with Tillis leading among men and trailing among women.

But there is an undeniably contentious edge to our relationship with China, one rooted in history and a stubborn conviction held by many Chinese that reporters here are spies with an ability to turn a phrase.

Because Republicans now lack the power to prevent legislated tax increases, the nation is no longer held hostage to their stubborn opposition to any tax increase whatsoever, which has torpedoed every serious effort to reduce the trajectory of debt since 2010.