India's Christian leaders have opposed gay rights even more stubbornly.
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For starters, they fly ever more stubbornly in the face of sophisticated research and hard-earned knowledge.
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Not only is that no way to run an energy policy, it also leaves the sector even more stubbornly under government control.
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The terrorist-versus-hero narrative is one that has attached itself to the faces of resistance movements across the world, but none more stubbornly than Palestinian liberation.
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Insider polling actually found that only 13% of Sanders' fans like the self-declared democratic socialist and no other candidate, which is low compared to another candidate whose supporters are seemingly more stubbornly attached to them — including Biden.
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He's attached — much more stubbornly than he is to any of his various heterodoxies on domestic policy — to the idea of a Russia-friendly foreign policy that almost nobody else (including Republican lawmakers and key members of his own administration) believes in.
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" The abbot then went to the women, who even more stubbornly refused to convert. Simon also urged both groups to abandon their Cathar faith. "Be converted to the Catholic faith," Simon said. Gesturing to the collection of dry wood that had been assembled, he continued, "Or ascend this pile.
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This battle was far more stubbornly contested than that of Ad Decimum, but it ended in the utter rout of the Vandals and, once more, the flight of Gelimer. He retreated to Mons PappuaFor possible location of Mons Pappua see J. Desanges, 1959."La dernière retraite de Gélimer", Cahiers de Tunisie 7, pp 429-435. (maybe in the Mount Edough, near Annaba)John Reynell Morell, Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social, and Natural, of French Africa, London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1854, p. 197.
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Quine believed that all beliefs are linked by a web of beliefs, in which a belief is linked to another belief by supporting relations, but if one belief is found untrue, there is ground to find the linked beliefs also untrue. The latter statement is usually referred to as either confirmation holism or Duhem–Quine thesis. A closely related concept is hold more stubbornly at least, also popularized by Quine. Some beliefs may be more useful than others, or may be implied by a large number of beliefs.
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It has been so with science, with religion, with industrial > technology and with human relations, and it is still so today. The struggle > for enlightenment and justice has been and is the great issue of the age. Of > the many superstitions and misconceptions, which have barred the way to > progress, perhaps none has been more firmly entrenched or has more > stubbornly resisted the light of reason than traditional concepts about > blindness. According to anciently honorable custom, the blind have been > considered a group apart, a helpless and hopeless lot.
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Examples might be laws of logic, or the belief in an external world of physical objects. Altering such central portions of the web of beliefs would have immense, ramifying consequences, and affect many other beliefs. It is better to alter auxiliary beliefs around the edges of the web of beliefs (considered to be sense beliefs, rather than main beliefs) in the face of new evidence unfriendly to one's central principles. Thus, while one might agree that there is no belief one can hold come what may, there are some for which there is ample practical ground to "hold more stubbornly at least".
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