stubborn resistance

collocation in English

meaningsofstubbornandresistance

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stubborn
adjective
uk
/ˈstʌb.ən/us
/ˈstʌb.ɚn/
disapproving
A stubborn person is determined to do what he or she wants and refuses to do ...
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resistance
noun
uk
/rɪˈzɪs.təns/us
/rɪˈzɪs.təns/
the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to ...
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(Definition ofstubbornandresistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We propose to give this the moststubbornresistanceat every point.
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There is also this vitally important principle ofstubbornresistanceto the will of the enemy.
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But one thing should be quite clear: this says less about the government's attitude to reform than about thestubbornresistanceof conservatives.
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It is on this new battlefield that we should have put up our initial "fierce andstubbornresistance" for months.
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I advocate at once the putting up of a fierce andstubbornresistanceto the enemy in the exceptional conditions of the ether battle-front.
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The people will put up increasinglystubbornresistanceto transport violations of their environment.
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How he must fear that fierce andstubbornresistance, which we are not opposing in that sphere at present.
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Why is it that we have not opposed "fierce andstubbornresistance" to the enemy in this field of battle?
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Thestubbornresistanceof workers to measures threatening their fundamental rights in this regard is well-known.
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It opens a new battlefield, a battlefield in which resistance, "fierce andstubbornresistance," to the will of the enemy can be maintained if we so desire.
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This is not fierce andstubbornresistance.
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Again and again, it has been proved that fierce andstubbornresistance, even against heavy odds and under exceptional conditions of local disadvantage, is an essential element in victory.
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Let us not have astubbornresistance.
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The hope of one nation being able to disarm its rival has been frustrated by the very stout andstubbornresistancewhich every nation makes to that process.
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They offeredstubbornresistanceto the invading army.
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He then reorganised his command under heavy fire and in the face ofstubbornresistancecontinued the advance.
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A fundamental flaw in community journalism is thestubbornresistanceto change and a compulsion to shape the system to maintain community standards.
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The people fought bravely and offeredstubbornresistanceto the enemy.
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Though his health had long been affected, it had offered astubbornresistanceto the fever which in the end gained complete mastery over it.
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