Sentence examples for stoutly refuse from inspiring English sources

It certainly doesn't help those of us whose bodies stoutly refuse to be "cinched in", but it's an extremely easy way to make a transformation.

If I stoutly refuse to engage, is not my perpetrator in a position of complete control?

I quivered in my flip-flops when I saw the dual byline (we're having some fall-like weather, but I am stoutly refusing to relinquish my summer shoes), but this puzzle did not come off as impossible to me.

Meanwhile, the Church of England is stoutly refusing to allow DNA tests to be carried out on bones thought to be those of the "princes in the Tower" who disappeared in 1483, and who may be buried in Westminster Abbey.

He represents each of the tax increases that he agreed to after his first round of tax cuts produced enormous budget deficits as an example of his having stoutly refused to raise taxes.

Yet he managed to remain opaque, stoutly refusing to do interviews.

The Dean of Exeter stoutly refused to adjust the Exeter Cathedral clock to meet the demands of the railway company.

When it comes to its new flat tax Budapest should follow the example of Ireland, which stoutly refused to change its ultralow corporate income tax rate—12.5%—despite intense pressure from Brussels and the IMF to hike it substantially as the price for a bailout.

The ministry has stoutly defended its refusal, mumbling about foreign meddling in Mexican politics.

She refused to go, stoutly declaring that "the princesses would never leave without me, and I wouldn't leave without the king, and the king will never leave".

All the same, few of us have the wit -- or the aristocratic temerity -- to pick a number, like the great hostess and horsewoman Nancy Astor did, and stoutly stick with it, creating havoc as we go along: "I refuse to admit that I am more than 52," she declared, "even if that does make my sons illegitimate".