Sentence examples for stubbornly small from inspiring English sources

Our circle of actual friends remains stubbornly small, limited not by technology but by human nature.

For his part, Noe acknowledges he has been frustrated with the stubbornly small crowds at the tracks on most days and the reluctance of New York City, which owns the lucrative OTB parlors in the five boroughs, to sell them.

The bad news: Renewable energy remains a stubbornly small percentage of both the United States' and the world's energy portfolio.

Despite that, critics say, the Model 3 may arrive too late to beat other equally affordable long-range plug-ins coming from major manufacturers, and it will be competing for a stubbornly small share of the car-buying public interested in plug-in electric technology.

This is no small accomplishment in light of the country's stubbornly low college attendance and graduation rates among minorities.

Mr. Sarkozy's ratings are stubbornly low.

The oil price remains stubbornly low.

They fill a looming space in the Documenta Halle, where their dreariness is somewhat ameliorated by a nearby gallery devoted to the small, stubbornly radiant abstractions that the Lebanese-American poet and writer Etel Adnan has made since the late 1950s.

She has done this four times before, in 1998, sitting stubbornly in her small white Toyota for as long as 13 days at a time, unharmed but firmly prevented from carrying out her political activities.

The polls are stubbornly similar: little budget 'bounce'; little reaction to 'Two Shredded Wheat' Cameron but the smaller parties looking just a bit more marginal, a bit more irrelevant?

With the economy stalled and the official unemployment rate hovering stubbornly around 9 percent, many small businesses are struggling to understand how unemployment insurance premiums are determined.