Sentence examples for stubbornness over from inspiring English sources
It is mostly images of this negative kind that the American press emphasized in its coverage of President Jiang Zemin's recent state visit, and the negative was reinforced by criticism, from President Clinton and members of Congress, of Jiang's stubbornness over human-rights issues and his government's trade practices.
"I'm willing to bet," says the Independent's Adrian Hamilton, "that by Easter he may well have [quit]." Tony Blair's stubbornness over the issue of top-up university tuition fees was apparent yesterday, despite a mild watering-down of the original proposals.
The septuagenarian slept badly during his first two months in prison because of bureaucratic stubbornness over the machine he needed to breathe at night.
On Monday, stubbornness won over conformity.
However, when it's out of balance, they are physically prone to upper respiratory illnesses, obesity, diabetes, and high cholesterol; mentally and emotionally, they are prone to procrastination, lethargy, inflexibility, stubbornness, depression, and over-attachment.
"I'm hoping that rational thinking prevails over stubbornness," she said.
In the past four years, Russian stubbornness and cynicism over Syria have helped to bring the current nightmare into being — and now they may, in turn, be the things that keeps Assad in power, at least temporarily.
In the past four years, Russian stubbornness and cynicism over Syria have helped to bring the current nightmare into being and now they may, in turn, be the things that keeps Assad in power, at least temporarily.
Even at that age, she said, she had "a sort of stubbornness," one that would carry over into adulthood as drive or focus.
Sheer complexity and the firm's history of stubbornness argue that it is over-reaching.
Great innovations have foundered over human stubbornness.
