But President Jacques Chirac made it clear he was "shocked" at the way Renault had announced the closure and the prime minister, Alain Juppé, summoned Mr Schweitzer for a ticking off.Renault, for its part, says it is sticking to its decision.
Here it is sticking its fingers up at the old fogies in East Lothian, standing up for equality and women's rights as it always has.
Despite recent suggestions that Nokia is at least keeping an open mind about adopting Google's Android platform, the company has reiterated that it is sticking to its guns with Windows Phone and its homegrown S40-based Asha devices.
For the moment, it is sticking by its familiar conspiratorial rhetoric.
The Times isn't looking for a vote, however; it is sticking by its strict standards.
Publicly, Israel insists it is sticking to its policy of staying out of the conflict next door.
Those at the top are best employed thinking about strategy rather than operations about whether the company is doing the right thing rather than whether it is sticking to its plans.
Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has insisted there is no proof that it was responsible, and says it is sticking to its policy of "ambiguity" with regard to intelligence matters.
Rather than compromise in international forums, it is sticking to its guns, buoyed by mass meetings such as the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba in 2010.
The Federal Reserve, which has kept short-term interest rates near zero since the end of 2008, has made clear it is sticking by its controversial decision to try to hold down mortgage and other long-term interest rates by buying government securities.
The march "has put agrarian reform as a top priority on the national agenda," concedes his spokesman, adding that this is not necessarily bad for the government, provided it shows that it is sticking to its promises.The government's own opinion polls seem to bear that view out: they show that the march had no impact on Mr Cardoso's popularity.
