Rather they defended stoutly to retain a puncher's chance.
A meal in the bar and four hours' sleep later we were up and off to be briefed on how Oman was being invaded by a combined UK-Omani force from the sea, and was being stoutly defended by a joint Omani-UK fonce on the ground.
But the stoutly English folk vernacular that the melodically gifted Flynn has rebooted with indie-friendly currency is winning hearts and minds well beyond Albion's shores.
In Brussels Mr Cameron tells the EU to beware of breaking up the single market, and stoutly defends free-trade rules that apply to all.
Earlier this year, the German federal government announced its own plans to set up a single financial regulator, although the Bundesbank and the German states are stoutly resisting any efforts to reduce their role.Twin peaksBesides America, only France and Italy, among rich countries, still insist on a separate regulator for banks and for the securities business.
The group says that the nation should rearm, stoutly defend disputed territories against China and scrap the constitution of 1946 which renounces war as a means for settling disputes.
For the first time in two years, says Klaus-Peter Schöppner, a pollster, the SPD is setting the political agenda.The CDU dares not resist too stoutly.
Sandra Peterson of Bayer, a German drugs and devices giant, stoutly defends the industry's record.
Saffron hopes The Swat test Poll position A fatal round Taken unawares In need of a miracle Sharpening the koala's claws A watched frog never boils Correction: Johns Hopkins University ReprintsThe BJP's traditional boasts are to run the economy more skilfully and defend the nation more stoutly than does Congress, the other big party, which leads the outgoing coalition government.
He stoutly defends free trade to protectionist audiences.
To keep them from the heat, on the long train journey from his home in Buffalo, he had wrapped the samples stoutly in dry ice and newspaper.
