Sentence examples for stuck too long from inspiring English sources

That ardor cooled as Middle East peace talks stalled, and Mr. Obama stuck too long with Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.

Detroit is not like the end-of-the-line Islanders, who stuck too long with older players.

Little stuck too long with a tiring Pedro Martínez in the seventh game of last year's American League Championship Series against the Yankees.

The problem with Fox is that it has stuck too long with Brennaman as its No. 2 announcer, behind Joe Buck, hoping that he would mature.

As delays and dissent cropped up within the domestic agencies, ITER's management kept the other agencies in the dark, and stuck too long to timelines that were never feasible.Most embarrassingly, a management assessment from last October that was leaked earlier this year derided the organisation along all these lines, and added that the project lacked a "nuclear safety culture".

In addition to the evocative factoids Mones dots throughout — the shiny black floor tiles of the Forbidden City, for example, were soaked in oil for one year — she is admirably adept at capturing the limbo state of the American businessman stuck too long in a country where he will always be an exotic foreigner.

— Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "The French Government badly underestimated the depth of popular feeling and made a major error of judgment by sticking too long to the idea of helping Ben Ali stay in power".

The White House, Mr. Cook said, was hemmed in by its response to the last Egyptian uprising, when Mr. Obama was faulted for sticking too long to a dictator, and then promised that he would work with any democratically elected successor to Mr. Mubarak.

Bobby Valentine had moved to avoid the mistake that Dusty Baker had already made, sticking too long with a power relief pitcher following the ego-shattering experience of surrendering the game-altering long ball.

Despite a commitment to perpetual crisis, a mixture of implicitly subsidised capital, weak shareholder pressure and family control has allowed it to stick too long with dodgy decisions such as its move into cars, brought short only by the Asian financial crisis, and its only-now-ended commitment to hard-drive manufacture.Even with a $20 billion bankroll, bets can be spread too thin.

Marx's disastrous investment in Saturday Review Industries (FORBES, Apr. 1, 1974) was an example of sticking too long with a loser.