Sentence examples for stubborn opposition from inspiring English sources

Despite their numerical advantage, Wigan initially struggled to break down stubborn opposition.

For all his visual innovations, Mr. Silverstein battled stubborn opposition to even the tiniest changes to The Times.

Before the debate can really move forward, President Bush will have to drop his stubborn opposition to regulating carbon dioxide.

Mr. Goeken, known as Jack, had a long track record of creating communications companies, often in the face of stubborn opposition and heavy skepticism.

A Senate committee on Wednesday summoned three top national security officials to make yet another plea for the agreement, in the face of narrow, but stubborn, opposition.

While communist rule is still ruthlessly enforced, Cubans enjoy more everyday freedoms.But change faces stubborn opposition from within the Communist Party and the state bureaucracy.

His supporters won a majority in a Constituent Assembly, but have met stubborn resistance from a well-organised opposition.

At a news conference Tuesday marking the 100th day of his second and final term, the president seemed unwilling or unable to overcome stubborn GOP opposition".

W. Horace Carter, the editor and publisher of a small-town North Carolina newspaper whose stubborn, angry opposition to local activities of the Ku Klux Klan helped quell the expansion of the Klan in the Carolinas and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953, died Wednesday while being transported from a hospital in Wilmington, N.C., to his home in nearby Tabor City.

Daraya, a town on the south-western fringe of Damascus with a reputation for stubborn but peaceful opposition to the regime, was the most recent to suffer.

Andros Townsend, whose sparkling debut proved the decisive factor in England's Wembley win, will be asked to repeat the performance against a Polish side no longer with anything to play for, but who could prove stubborn, even dangerous, opposition Although another young winger, Raheem Sterling, was called into the squad yesterday that was to replace Tom Cleverley, who has a calf injury.