Sentence examples for stubbornly poor from inspiring English sources

The stubbornly poor economic numbers vindicate calls for a slower pace of austerity, says the Labour opposition, led by Ed Miliband.

Charter advocates see a movement that — without the rules and red tape that bog down traditional schools — has attracted parents in droves and lifted achievement in some of the most stubbornly poor and disadvantaged corners of America.

"The remarkable thing," Duffy explains, "is how much of Gen Y feels stubbornly poor, given that they are now, on average 25 years old and the oldest is 33 – previous cohorts have felt better off as they move from their 20s and into their 30s.

But health and education remain stubbornly poor, and in some ways are worsening.

And though Healthy Start programs helped cut the state's infant mortality rate 33percentt since 1990, some stubbornly poor counties were still in double digits.

Over the period, long-term survival for individuals diagnosed with cancer has doubled and there is now a life expectancy of 10 years or more for the majority of individuals with some common cancers (although there are notable exceptions in lung and pancreatic cancers where survival rates remain stubbornly poor; CRUK, 2010).

Although sugary soda consumption in the United States has dropped since 2000, recent data suggests the decline has plateaued in recent years and rates remain stubbornly high in poor communities, and especially among minority adolescents.

Seven years into its worst slump in post-war history, the eurozone's weakest link is saddled with anaemic growth, stubbornly high unemployment, poor export growth, consumer pessimism and debt of more than €330bn.

But the poor stubbornly refused to go away.

Inflation remains stubbornly high, hitting the poor who struggle to make ends meet and the indebted middle class as interest rates rise.

Indeed, while the gap between rich and poor remains stubbornly wide, the wages of low and middle-income workers have risen faster than inflation since 1996 for the first time in years.