General Abacha is a stubborn man, caring little for domestic or international opinion.

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But Mr D'Alema is a stubborn man.

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Indeed, the bishop comes across as a stubborn, prickly individual and a man whom it is easier to admire at a distance.

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The man writes lines that are howlingly funny and stubborn enough to stand up to a box of Brillo pads.

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"He's a young man with a tremendous amount of hope, and he's stubborn - stubborn in a good way, " said Dr Jaimie Shores, the hospital's clinical director of hand transplantation.

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The man behind the building and the show remains a paradox, a stubborn set of contradictions, a visionary of staggering talent anchored in the past, charming, intransigent, wrong as often as he was right.

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