The House's unanimous final vote obscures the Republican leadership's stubborn opposition.

Thereupon he was sent to take Ryazan, but the stubborn opposition of the inhabitants led to the city being burnt.

It is hard, though,' he added, 'to find in one's own family such stubborn opposition to interests of such magnitude.

Among blacks, it retains widespread, almost mythic popularity for its decades of stubborn opposition to apartheid.

President Bush's stubborn opposition to the civil rights bill, which he falsely labeled a quota bill, is a recent case in point.

Vance's faith in states' rights drove him into repeated, stubborn opposition to the Davis administration.

But stubborn opposition to reconciliation will only harm more Americans, Iraqis and the cause we're fighting for.

There is too much stubborn opposition in the world, he lamented sourly, crossing me at every turn.

But it has been held up until now by stubborn opposition from Washington.

We see the achievement which swallows up the baffling difficulties and the stubborn opposition.