Sentence examples for stubborn element from inspiring English sources

For the second time in a week, Major League Baseball has suspended a prominent major leaguer for testing positive for an excessive level of testosterone, a clear indication that illegal performance enhancers continue to exist as a stubborn element of the sport despite intensified efforts to eliminate their use.

It is a part of dodo mythology, in Mauritius and beyond, that the birds used gizzard stones — that they swallowed stones and retained them in their guts to grind away at stubborn elements in their diet.

True, you can get addicted, but hey, you can always transfer the more stubborn, repetitive elements of your mind-set to another place and have it serve another cause; do something more creative with yourself than light the next fag.

The game that Einar plays, that he and Lili are not the same person but live lives entirely apart from each other, is also an element of stubborn reality that makes up a part of the challenge to Greta's love and understanding.

And then, in a different mode, there was Marie Curie, who had spent four backbreaking years in a shed extracting a pinch of "her" element, radium, from four stubborn tons of pitchblende.

I'm a stubborn ol' cuss though, and those elements of art that I learned were important forty or fifty years ago ain't gonna die easy.

There is an element of old fogeyism in Mr. Kaurismaki's sensibility, a stubborn loyalty to vinyl records, celluloid film, vintage dresses and other old-fashioned modern stuff.

From 1879 onward, the German element in the Habsburg monarchy was on the defensive, fighting stubborn and senseless rearguard actions against the Slav drive for political and national equality.

Louis's self-absorption and verbosity should have a measure of charm — we should be able to see that there is an element of boyishness in his endless theorizing and rationalizing and to sympathize with his stubborn immaturity.

Stubborn people.

Stubborn history.