Sentence examples for stubborn fight from inspiring English sources

Gaddafi had disappeared, but remnants of this force were putting up a stubborn fight at his hometown, Sirte.

The indomitable courage of troops from all the States has now, after thirty-eight days of a stubborn fight, obliged the Huns to retreat.

Opponents are hoping that the state's stubborn fight to wheel another elderly man back to the gallows (he is severely ill and suffers from advanced dementia) may trigger debate and a backlash.

Later, the British pair of Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley toughed it out in the bronze medal match, winning a stubborn fight against the Thais, Sakhorn Khanthasit and Ratana Techamaneewat, 6-7, 7-6, 6-3.

Oulu's longstanding planner Mauri Myllylä sees nothing unusual in the stubborn fight for an extensive network of year-round pathways, peppered with stress-relieving and time-saving bicycle underpasses at almost every roadway intersection.

It is high time that the stubborn fight the Bush administration is waging against the ICC, a policy based on narrow ideology and irrational fear, is softened and shifted towards a sensible engagement with the court for the benefit of all.

The singer, bassist and songwriter was 69, and had fought "a long and stubborn battle with cancer," his manager, Stewart Young, said in a statement.

Last May I boldly stated that when dealing with Bush you have to be equally as stubborn & fight fire with fire.

Later, they would become the 'terrs' - terrorists - as the whites, led by the ferociously stubborn Ian Smith, fought a long, futile and, above all, murderous civil war to prevent the inevitability of black majority rule.

One is reasonably forward-looking; the other is so stubborn it fights with its own customers over how to operate the engines.

Having secured and turned those installations over to American and British marines, the Navy Special Warfare units appear to be turning northward to assist in securing the region around Fao -- where British Royal Marines continued to fight stubborn pockets of Iraqi resistance today -- and to opening up Iraq's southern waterways to American ships.