But stubbornly maintaining that vice because the alternative might mean having to welcome something alien is not an argument.

Mr. Kaufman is also charmed by the way the block stubbornly maintains its identity.

Why had she stubbornly maintained that she would take his meal to him?

"It is the only way out," he maintained stubbornly.

I tried to walk beside him, but he stubbornly maintained a distance of one pace behind me.

'He does not look like a man,' he maintained stubbornly.

'I've got to wait and see what happens,' Dobbs maintained stubbornly.

"It's their duty to submit," Relg maintained stubbornly, though he seemed a bit less sure of himself.

"I will know if there is any other damage," he maintained stubbornly, moving those outrageous blue eyes to me.

"South Carolina stubbornly maintains that a system proved by the nation's service academies to work is unworkable," he wrote.