Sentence examples for stubborn efforts to from inspiring English sources
Nowadays it has come to life again as a result of White's stubborn efforts to back up his e5 pawn.
Indeed, after the flotation, his chief investment officer, Stanley Druckenmiller, said that the Thais' stubborn efforts to avert devaluation "kicked our butt".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eventually the dog gives up and runs off in answer to its owner's whistle, frustrated in its efforts to herd that stubborn big white sheep.
Efforts to loosen some stubborn bolts and install the antenna stretched a scheduled six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk by two astronauts to about seven hours.
The shorter workweek has been a centerpiece of the Socialist-led government's efforts to reduce a stubborn double-digit unemployment rate that, despite edging down since Lionel Jospin took office as prime minister in mid-1997, still hovers at 10.6percentt.
WASHINGTON — Despite intense public and private pressure by the Obama administration, China has not yet shown any sign that it will support tougher sanctions against Iran, leaving a stubborn barrier before President Obama's efforts to constrain Iran's nuclear ambitions.
