Sentence examples for stoutly resist from inspiring English sources

Surely they, more than any other English club, would stoutly resist the more extravagant commercial blandishments".

Supporters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Front de Gauche can be expected to back large parts of Mr Hollande's programme but will stoutly resist the spending cuts needed if France is to reduce its deficit, as promised, to 3 per cent of GDP next year.

Preoccupied with his work, Franklin stoutly resisted any suggestion that he take up the pulpit.

But progress is being stoutly resisted by companies such as Michelin, which (like Parmalat) is quoted but also family-controlled.

The company stoutly resisted efforts in many states over the years to get it to collect the taxes, saying it preferred a national solution.

Until it found itself short of capital at the start of this year, it had stoutly resisted the idea.See articleBritain's homeowners are still enjoying boom times.

The BBC has always stoutly resisted any such proposal - including during the period when I was secretary of state - but surely now this should be revisited?

Now she stoutly resisted Liverpudlian relatives who wanted the two of them to leave London, and welfare officers who insisted they could not possibly live independently.

Each link was stoutly resisted by persons who wished to leave the city unchanged, and they succeeded in forcing wheeled vehicles to be garaged at the landward edge of the island.

Since the start of Japan's deflationary era in 1999, the BoJ has stoutly resisted calls to set an inflation target against which it can be judged and by which it can be embarrassed if it misses.

A strong finish was stoutly resisted, the back four pleasing Hasselbaink with their "shape and willingness" and "sticking with it" and Jon McLaughlin in goal adding a reflex parry to confident catching and an early tip-over.