Sentence examples for stoutly against from inspiring English sources

His side has defended stoutly against a Manchester United team that hasn't got out of second gear yet.

51st over: England 182-5 (Thorpe 66, Jones 6) Jones is defending stoutly against Oram, who isn't half the threat that Cairns was.

Where Sean Dyche's side had sat back and defended so stoutly against Liverpool the previous week, their own lead having been established in the opening exchanges, here Burnley were gasping in arrears from the moment, 10 minutes in, the Belgian collected possession just inside his own half.

Such a move, though, would have involved not just siding with the right of the Conservative Party (a reptile house, to anyone of Corbyn's persuasion) but incurring the wrath of his own M.P.s, the great majority of whom are stoutly against the notion of Brexit.

Brits drove over in the corner shortly after on 57 minutes to reinforce his side's lead but the anticipated opening of the floodgates did not follow with Gloucester defending stoutly against all the odds.

The strongest impression that was left on me was that the people of this nation fought so bravely, and so stoutly, against an almost unstoppable, crisis-inducing force.

Late in that year the heresy laws were revived, and in September 1555, after enfeebling imprisonment, Cranmer was subjected to a long trial in which he stoutly defended himself against the charge of having unjustifiably departed from his own earlier position on the sacraments and the papacy.

But as stoutly as Brazil defended against Holland, the sorry facade came crumbling down against France.

Under Antonio Fazio, its governor, the central bank has been stoutly independent, often acting against the government's wishes.

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.

If the group is elevated by Mr. Brötzmann's nasty, bearish energy, it is positively redeemed by the drummer Hamid Drake, who manages to work swing and drive and dance rhythms into a context that stoutly, grimly, severely rebels against being "interesting".