Sentence examples for staunch refusal from inspiring English sources

A staunch refusal to make deals makes kidnappings pointless.

Oh, I snivelled for Britain, despite Derbyshire's staunch refusal to go for the tears.

Villa were initially dogged in their staunch refusal to lie down although Paul Lambert's attacking options were generally laborious when venturing forward on the break.

Feminists, in particular, often mistrusted her work, and for Spark's staunch refusal to "identify" as a woman, an ethnic Jew, a Scot or anything else.

But rethinking one's position, or tactics, or point of view, can be a far greater mark of integrity than any purist's staunch refusal to yield, in politics as in anything else.

And then there's "Stage Beauty," whose very premise is that actors construct their performances from their private conflicts; in this context, Mr. Crudup's staunch refusal to acknowledge any connection sounds disingenuous.

Betroffenheit was cruelly staunch in its refusal to grant any easy insights into the meaning of suffering or to deliver any consoling promises of recovery, yet the work built to an intensity that was cathartic.

But when asked on the music radio station Triple M about Broad's staunch defence of his refusal to walk when edging Ashton Agar to slip in the first Test at Trent Bridge, Lehmann snapped and argued that Broad's behaviour had set the tone for an especially difficult series for the umpires, by making them "look like fools".

I'm well aware that this is a staunch middle-class educational mindset: the refusal to allow your child to fail, coupled with enough resources to throw into areas such as incentivising.

Yuriko Koike, a 54-year-old former journalist who fills the new post of national security adviser, has been a staunch advocate of placing sanctions on North Korea for its refusal to provide details of Japanese citizens abducted in the 1970s and 1980s.

Gorsuch is a staunch, longtime conservative judge who, in spite of his refusal to tip his hand about his ideology, has taken positions that confirm his right-wing bona fides.