Sentence examples for stubborn effort from inspiring English sources

Now, thanks to a decade of stubborn effort by two Presidents, the system is on the verge of change.

In its overblown complexity and constant arch reference points to other works in the author's canon, it can read like a stubborn effort to write the definitive Murakami, the Great Japanese Novel.

To Mr. Leydon and his supporters, Greenwich's stubborn effort is a matter of elitism run amok; the town's willingness to spend tens of thousands of its tax dollars on an appeal reflects the arrogance of snobbish people trying to buy their way through life.

Beneatha, an Afrocentric atheist, has been mouthing off about God's non-existence and irrelevance, proclaiming "Mama...it's all a matter of ideas and God is just one idea I don't accept...I get so tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort".

Indeed, after the flotation, his chief investment officer, Stanley Druckenmiller, said that the Thais' stubborn efforts to avert devaluation "kicked our butt".

Nowadays it has come to life again as a result of White's stubborn efforts to back up his e5 pawn.

And he mocked himself, too, in describing his stubborn efforts to proselytize the astronomer Carl Sagan, saying: "My great challenge was to convert Carl Sagan.

That does not or cannot thwart the stubborn efforts of migrants smuggled in trucks and boats to penetrate the Schengen zone — or, in some case, die trying.

In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Ms. Wasserman Schultz said her decision to demand Mr. Weiner's resignation had been prompted by his stubborn efforts to keep his Congressional seat.

His diary offers a detailed portrait of the stubborn efforts of Higginson and his men to do just that, and a clear and vigorous record of their successes, on and off the battlefield.

You can't reshape the world according to your aesthetic when that aesthetic is at odds with objective facts and constraints on reality like "something must be produced before it can be consumed". Stubborn efforts to ignore these constraints on the part of characters like Eugene Lawson, James Taggart, and Wesley Mouch created a world that finally collapsed under the weight of its own corruption.