But, stubborn to the core, he refused to admit he was beaten.
The mood of paralysis seemed to be captured at the European Union's summit in Lisbon last week, after which France was cast as Europe's laggard: too stubborn to abandon its old statist ways, too reluctant to pursue market reform, too proud to admit the merits of American liberal economics.
Shapley saw evidence for Cepheids in Andromeda long before Hubble did, but refused to believe they could be Cepheids out of a stubborn attachment to his own theories.
We've grown too accustomed to seeing stubborn greats unable to grasp that the house lights have been turned on.
The man writes lines that are howlingly funny and stubborn enough to stand up to a box of Brillo pads.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg admonished the city that the show must go on, but his stubborn refusal to postpone began to feel tin-eared.
Yet the impasse over the governor-general has exposed the dangers of stubborn resistance to the constitutional evolution that many Australians would support.
Indeed, some of the most stubborn resistance to deficit financing has come from Europe, particularly from Germany and the EU finance ministers.
India again proved stubborn resistance to Australia drawing away from home but they suffered their only home series defeat under Wright last November to the world champions.
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.
Despite being dismissed by many as a leftover from predecessor Suharto's discredited New Order regime, Habibie endured opposition - even from within his own party - and put up a stubborn fight to remain a key political contender.
That tiny percentage is where all the bluster, hot air, and rhetoric is aimed at because those voters decide the election, whilst the vast majority of American is stubborn enough to stick with their party and denigrate supporters on the other side.
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By all means, many believe, an enlarged and more representative civil society - ideally a larger, wider group of people from all over the country, not just a bunch of well meaning lawyers and activists from Delhi - should be putting pressure on a stubborn government to act against corruption.
It also saw them complete the type of win they have failed to manage at home this season as they broke down stubborn defensive opponents to earn the three points.
This is no hagiography: she could be prickly, stubborn and unsentimental to the point of coldness.
The suspect was being stubborn and difficult to talk to, said Didier Martinez, a Toulouse police press officer.
The investment climate has soured due to stubborn inflation, high interest rates and GDP growth that may dip below 7% in the coming quarter.
And shame on Major League Baseball for both allowing this to happen and, in broader terms, for being stubborn or ignorant enough to believe that professional baseball belongs in the Miami market.
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Needing a two-goal win to guarantee a place in the last 16, the Swiss lacked a cutting edge and were unable to break down the stubborn central Americans, who wasted several chances to sneak a victory on the break in a hectic finale.
An even more stubborn version, resistant to more antibiotics, is called extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and has been detected in 84 countries.
At last Semgroup's stubborn bets have started to pay off--for someone else.
But his side was unable to find a way past a stubborn and determined Rangers defense, which managed to hold on for a precious point in its fight against relegation.
Despite high unemployment and a stubborn economy that refuses to grow at an acceptable rate, the housing sector has managed to become one of the bright points in this fragile recovery.
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Indian industries and the government have been clamoring for the RBI to unwind most of the 3.75-percentage-point rate increase it carried out between March 2010 and October 2011 to combat stubborn inflation.
Indian industries and the government have been clamoring for the RBI to unwind most of the 3.75-percentage-point rate increases it carried out between March 2010 and October 2011 to combat stubborn inflation.
Finding it tough to break down a stubborn Glasgow defence, Robinson sent a steepling kick into the air for Shanklin to chase.
Not only was Mr McTaggart stubborn, but he tended to be intolerant of anyone who opposed him.
"I don't think it is out of stubbornness because being stubborn isn't going to help anything, " she said.
More than any cinema music, it enacts the despair and stubborn persistence of our attempts to re-create the past.
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