Sentence examples for once stubborn from inspiring English sources

Serbia, small and suffering, its history painful and divisive, seemed to imprint its tennis players with character at once stubborn and resilient.

But Thomas clearly is losing patience, and perhaps some of his once-stubborn faith.

Whereas most footage in Before They Were Famous type shows is calculated to be bathetic or embarrassing – the Oscar-winning actor who once advertised stubborn-stain remover – the characterisation of a proud man who has desperately disguised his learning difficulties helps to explain, when watched now, why Hoskins went on to become the star he did.

The other characters in the film are similarly propelled by impulses they hardly understand, and Ms. Sprecher's sleight of hand makes them seem at once creatures of stubborn free will and impotent pieces in a cosmic game of checkers.

So he became stubborn once the No More Page 3 campaign gained traction, not wishing to be seen to accede to the demands of people he regards not only as non-Sun readers, but as part of an anti-Sun brigade.

As Mark Twain once said, "Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable".

But once again, resilient and stubborn Japan equalised when captain Sawa produced an audacious flick from a corner that left keeper Solo helpless.

There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn".

The problem for Jeb Bush is that, as another well-known politician once said, facts are stubborn things.

I am ridiculously stubborn however, and once I have set my mind to do something, it is rare that I will admit that it might not be possible.

He could be stubborn and demanding — once insisting on a "Lou Piniella clause" in his contract, ensuring that he would make more than Piniella, the Yankees' less-credentialed manager — but he considered himself Mr. Rogers compared with some of his employers.