Somehow he forced up his left arm, worked at the catch of the cabin door, lunging against that stubborn barrier with the strength of his shoulder.

"The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her.

That unbreakable, stubborn barrier was gone?

"I wouldn't be surprised if 9,000 turns out to be a more stubborn barrier," said Thomas McManus, an independent investment strategist.

Despite the Navy's findings, it was never able to successfully prosecute anyone, and many of the women say stubborn institutional barriers and chauvinistic mores remain.

Hoping to break through the stubborn barrier of refusals, Michael told him Jephtha Kent believed his youngest son to be dead.

The momentum of his assault on that stubborn barrier pitched him out into empty space.

The younger men want dedicated space in an adjacent lot to play soccer and cricket, among the few diversions that melt otherwise stubborn ethnic barriers.

They stood there like stubborn, fleshy barriers.

Beyond financing, politics may be the most stubborn barrier to affordable housing in the state.