Sentence examples for stubbornly maintain from inspiring English sources

However, Ms. Reinhart and Mr. Rogoff stubbornly maintain that "growth is about 1 percentage point lower when debt is 90 percent or more of gross domestic product," a core finding of their 2010 paper.

Instead they continue to stubbornly maintain that the program is a success and needs no material change, effectively assuring that Treasury's most specific Main Street promise will not be honored.

The mayor and his police chief stubbornly maintain that changes to their current stop-and-frisk program will mean more guns on the streets and increased crime in New York City.

Does your digestive tract stubbornly maintain a holding pattern, hovering with no landing scheduled on the flight plan?

Meanwhile, as the sincerely paranoid (facilitated by the deliberately mendacious) position themselves to exercise state power in 2012, those of us who stubbornly maintain our membership in the reality-based community are in danger of being abducted into the nightmares of others.

Mr. Zinsser stubbornly maintained his devotion.

Rajoy has stubbornly maintained an unyielding line ever since.

Thus far, the authoritarian leaders who dominate the continent have withstood protests, stubbornly maintaining that tribalism will save them.

(Planet Earth, the aging hottie: "Despite a pronounced equatorial bulge and receding polar iceline, she still stubbornly maintains a jaunty 23.4-degree axial tilt that belies her 4.5 billion years").

Yet the government stubbornly maintains a policy of preserving about 90% of existing rice land in perpetuity.That might make sense if Vietnam still struggled with crushing food insecurity, as it did in the early 1980s.

But it stubbornly maintained its own identity, with its Georgian Orthodox Church and a language that is not Turkic or Slavic or Indo-European and is written with a distinctly curlicued alphabet.