1.   Only a very stubborn man could have believed that reason would prevail in a case such as this one.

2.   Because he is a very stubborn man, friends say.

3.   A large part of the conflict is complicated by the high respect each stubborn man has for the other.

4.   But he was proving a stubborn man.

5.   But Kirkland, always a stubborn man, refused to step aside.

6.   He is a stubborn man, she said, refusing to hire a lawyer for months because he contended he was innocent.

7.   It was a triumph for a stubborn man.

8.   Ripken Sr., Robinson said, is the most stubborn man he has ever met.

9.   To his credit, he refused, a stubborn young man who had been a quarterback all his life and saw no reason to change.

10.   He is a stubborn man.