He stoutly maintained his innocence of all charges throughout.

"I know the original literal meaning on which you have built such a house of hate, yes," Agnes maintained stoutly.

Despite agreeing to the fine, the firm stoutly maintains its innocence.

Naipaul stoutly maintains he has never read the book.

"She's not fancy, but she gets around pretty quick," Chet often maintained stoutly.

"They are the crowning invention of civilization," stoutly maintained Jimmy.

Human nature, Branson maintained stoutly, does not have to be changed.

But you can't," Miles maintained stoutly when the subject came up, "properly call them collaborators.

But chastened ministers will stoutly maintain that it does not affect the treaty.

Most style books stoutly maintain media is a plural noun, period.