The back gave way; the ball stubbornly declined to swing.
Fassel, given the opportunity at a Wednesday news conference to evaluate Wheatley's progress since he left the Giants, stubbornly declined to do so.
The songs Esther Dean has co-authored for Katy Perry and Rihanna have topped the charts, but the millions who bought Firework or S&M stubbornly declined to buy Dean's own singles: no place on the charts for Twerkin' 4 Birkin or 2012's call for procreation Baby Making Love.
But it comes at a time of stubbornly high unemployment and declining wealth for many ordinary Americans.
But it comes at a time of stubbornly high unemployment and declining wealth for many ordinary Americans". Nathaniel Popper in The New York Times.
Basically, the numbers refuse to cooperate: Interest rates remain stubbornly low, deficits are declining and even 10-year budget projections basically show a stable fiscal outlook rather than exploding debt.
Now, in the face of a stubbornly brutal conflict and declining war support at home, General Petraeus has pulled back from the pulsating sense of self-confidence that fellow officers say has been his hallmark — that he can prevail against any odds.
(Others, like Amazon, stubbornly refuse).
MANY economists say the stubbornly high jobless rate and the declining power of labor unions are also important factors behind the declining wage share, reducing the leverage of workers to demand higher wages.
To be sure, tropical forest loss has remained at stubbornly high levels since the 1990s, declining from an annual average of 11.3 million hectares during that decade to roughly 9.3 million hectares per year between 2009 and 2012.
Although research productivity from the drug industry has been declining for 15 years, mainstream medical research stubbornly assumes that new drugs will follow exclusively from a predetermined research path.
