'stubborn fighting' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to figurative or literal struggle that involves holding strong to a certain opinion or point of view, even in the face of difficulty or opposition. For example, "The union's leadership was determined to keep bargaining, never giving up their stubborn fighting."
But he wasn't like the rest of our stubborn, fighting Irish family.
There was no sense of the stubborn fighting still going on in Tripoli.
With its headquarters at Al-Faluja on 10 and 11 November, the Australian Mounted Division became engaged (during 10 November) in stubborn fighting.
And although the Beersheba garrison suffered many casualties; "stubborn fighting" by strong Ottoman rearguards at Hareira, Tel es Sheria and Tel el Khuweilfe, delayed the EEF for seven days, as they continued to hold the remainder of the Gaza line.
"Even love songs, like 'I Walk the Line' and 'Ring of Fire,' are about the dangers of temptation and the singer's stubborn resolve in fighting it off".
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.
This depends on how long you can hold your breath while anxiously swimming underwater, fending off dense green fronds of bull kelp that can entangle you and fighting stubborn ocean swells that can sweep you away from your quarry.
The Arab Spring, once unthinkable in a regime of iron control by insouciant elites, has turned into the Arab Summer and soon-to-be Fall without a clear vision of where revolutions are going in Egypt and Tunisia, or where bloody uprisings will lead those still fighting stubborn dictatorships in Syria and Libya.
The blast is a major setback for the Pakistani military, which has been fighting a stubborn insurgency in the country's north-west.
In her transfixing performance, she moves back and forth between a stubborn, thorny young woman fighting shame, anger and despair into a radiant being infused with hope.
He's the first to admit that he has been fighting a stubborn slump that dates from his last victory, at the 2010 Arnold Palmer Invitational.
