Sentence examples for steadfast criticism from inspiring English sources

Throughout her two decades in jail and under house arrest, Ms Suu Kyi earned herself worldwide adoration for her refusal to bend to Burma's military junta and her steadfast criticism of all human rights abuses inside her country.

He says that remaining steadfast in the face of criticism is one of his defining characteristics.

At the time mayor Ken Livingstone was steadfast in refusing to countenance any criticism of the police over either of these catastrophes.

Meir resigned in response to public criticism, but Dayan remained steadfast.

Along with Mr. Hagel's comment in Newsweek that many of the war's most steadfast proponents "don't know anything about war," his criticism prompted a national discussion about "chicken hawks," a derisive term for those advocating war with no direct experience of it.

You stood as a symbol of strength and courage while enduring mountains of criticism from every direction, but you remained diligent and steadfast.

Newspapers aligned with Iran's conservative religious hierarchy were more pleased with Rouhani's debut appearance before the world body, praising him for his steadfast defense of Iran's right to develop nuclear technologies and his criticism of purported U.S. belligerence in the Middle East.

As such, he was largely responsible for the party's steadfast policy of pacifism during World War I, a position that drew widespread criticism after the U.S. entry into the war.

Although Falun Gong was not the only target of the media criticism, nor the only group to protest, theirs was the most mobilized and steadfast response.

More seriously, the steadfast refusal to understand, or accept the reality of inequality, underscores all of these criticisms: they have an "irrational anger against the world", wrote Routledge.

Mr Cameron's referral of her relationship with Mr Hussain to his adviser on the ministerial code comes despite his steadfast refusal to order a similar inquiry into Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who has faced weeks of heavy criticism for his contacts with News Corporation over its attempts to take full control of BSkyB.