If the depositor were a Jew, or more stubborn, he was in serious trouble.
Mr Denktash, whose Turkish-Cypriot republic in the north remains recognised by no country except Turkey itself, sounds yet more stubborn.
An even more stubborn version, resistant to more antibiotics, is called extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and has been detected in 84 countries.
The Lords has become more stubborn since the last Labour government ejected most hereditary peers, making the upper house less ridiculous.
The idea is to capture the carbon dioxide emissions from burning the coal for power, then piping the CO2 around to be injected into old oil fields to coax out more stubborn crude.
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But now that Ford, ironically once one of the movement's most hated adversaries (think of the Expedition), has made good on a pledge to examine better ways to fuel its cars and trucks, environmentalists may see a light at the end of the tunnel -- as well as a new addition to their arsenal in the war against other, more stubborn carmakers.
"You just keep going and by refusing to give up, being stubborn more than anything else, and being unemployable in any other field, " you eventually succeed, or find another line of work.
Which is why most people who cannot handle the truth are so vexing: More often than not stubborn mules are smart, talented, and accomplished folks who validate the old saw that the problem with attaining what you want is that it positions you to have something to lose!
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The Permian Basin needs more CO2 to coax out stubborn oil.
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But I think if anything, it will make people a lot more determined -- Brits are quite stubborn, they don't like being told what to do.
More than any cinema music, it enacts the despair and stubborn persistence of our attempts to re-create the past.
Inverness were more enterprising in the second half but came up against a stubborn Falkirk defence marshalled by former Scotland internationals McNamara and Steven Pressley.
And if we do not recognize this fact and fight, we shall soon begin to bury more innocents whose lives will be sacrificed because we were too stubborn to acknowledge reality.
The animation, computer-assisted in some of the more elaborate sequences, is sometimes impressive, but rarely impressive enough to overcome a certain impersonality a stubborn mechanical coldness.
But such requirements may do little more than offset the expansionary effects of the central bank's purchases of foreign exchange, made necessary by its stubborn refusal to allow the yuan to strengthen faster.
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