Sentence examples for stubbornness against from inspiring English sources

It is an ancient, religious, fundamental story of epic struggle, of stubbornness against energy.

Do we count his negative personality traits, his legendary ego and his stretches of on-the-court stubbornness against him?

In my simple way I have always believed that stubbornness against the apartheid enemy was a commendable quality, but that it was questionable in one's interaction with one's colleagues.

He threw sharp darts of humor against government mismanagement and against its stubbornness in not allowing farmers markets or the possession of hard currency.

From the moment this 34-year-old embodiment of British stubbornness – and of stubborn Britishness – set her mind to compete in Beijing against all medical advice her course was set.

"We are not going with empty hands," he said, adding that they would carry back the support of "those who rose up against the stubbornness of the few who attempted to close the doors of dialogue".

Nothing works against their stubbornness, their laziness.

We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.

And it is partly an act of stubbornness on my part, raging against the modern world like that French farmer who drove his tractor into McDonald's.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that the suicide attack, claimed by Islamic Holy War and condemned by the Palestinian Authority, "shows us all that the Palestinian Authority persists in its stubbornness and does not act against terrorism".

He took all the iconography of the genre - running horses, an almost religious feeling for landscape, a sense of the astonishing speed with which things change (50m buffalo eliminated in just 20 years), the pioneer stubbornness of characters battling on against hopeless odds (the real Butch Cassidy was in fact a Mormon boy) - and he gave it a spin.