Kipiani saw the 1783 Treaty of Georgievsk the only fair model for the Russian-Georgian relations and remained a stubborn defender of a native language and culture.

Through the first week in June, she continued to protect those carriers off Okinawa while they sent their planes against the beleaguered island's stubborn defenders and against air bases on Kyūshū.

Since 1939, when he published his now classic essay "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," he has been a stubborn defender of "formalism."

That is when they are most likely to die, victims of grenades tossed by Chechnya's stubborn defenders.

In actuality, Smith was one of Piltdown Man's most stubborn defenders, and Keith was knighted in 1921.

Temple Square had been under guard ever since the U.S. Army leveled the Mormon Temple and killed the last stubborn defenders there.

At both the Watergate hearings and his trial he had been a stubborn defender of the President.

Even the most dim-witted goblin understood its people's chance for victory against the stubborn defenders of Ten-Towns lay in the overwhelming weight of their numbers.

To their left was the long forbidding wood with its tangle of trees and stubborn defenders.

According to the Finns, the real strength of the line were the "stubborn defenders with a lot of sisu" - a Finnish idiom roughly translated as "guts, fighting spirit."