Sentence examples for some stubbornness from inspiring English sources

Except for some stubbornness.

If you don't have confidence and some stubbornness then you probably would give up but that doesn't mean you can't feel and embrace disappointment.

Some of that was stubbornness, and some of that was lingering racism that kept the Louisville establishment from completely embracing him until after his retirement in 1981.

No, not because the Yankees' bats had apparently been stored in a meat locker overnight (although clearly they were), or because the Orioles have stockpiled some industrial-strength stubbornness (they clearly have), or because there is some sort of Joba Chamberlain curse circling the proceedings (which there clearly is).

And then, just like that — through some combination of stubbornness, patience and dumb love — it is over.

On a chilly evening in October, after the gala's ribbon-cutting ceremony, Mr. Ferchill expressed some of that stubbornness and gambler's instinct.

After prolonged exposure to these smoldering doll-babies, it's hard not to long for some of the stubbornness of Lucy Ricardo Lucille Balll), the insatiability and bad temper of Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) or the nerve and self-possession of Mary Richards.

But in a show of the kind of single-mindedness — some would say stubbornness — on which Australians traditionally pride themselves, the brothers patched up the boat and succeeded in reaching Hobart the following year, about a decade before the first running of the official Sydney Hobart race in 1945.

The president's steadfastness — some call it stubbornness — reflects the lessons he took from the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, a period in which he has said the country fell into a "season of fear" that led its leaders to betray core American values.

(Some might say, stubbornness). So, I stood for something and then fought for it relentlessly.

"How else would I have been able to work until I'm almost 90, if I didn't have something to motivate me?" Business associates say it's Mann's tenacity — some call it stubbornness — that has fueled his companies' success.