standing one's ground

Sometimes, he said, winning means backing away to keep a distance, instead of charging into a situation or standing one’s ground.

In one experiment in which students were asked to draw self-portraits, Israelis sketched their whole bodies, including the feet, which Lev-Wiesel said indicated how the ideas of standing one’s ground and defending against enemies were ingrained in Jews.

And sometimes, there is something inspirational in adding an extra degree of difficulty to standing one’s ground and not going wobbly.

Along with standing one’s ground in the face of adversity, a large portion of Hurd’s opening remarks hewed to the tried-and-true advice given out to most aspiring filmmakers: work hard, pursue your passions, and find like-minded individuals that you can form a creative network with.

Of course, standing one's ground is a little easier with the support of the musical friends he's surrounded himself with for most of his life.