The answer appears to lie in a combination of stubbornness on Saleh's part — hardly surprising — and caution, even horror, on the part of the one country best able to get him out, the United States.
"There is kind of a silly factor here, but this kind of shows a certain kind of stubbornness on the mayor's part".
And it is partly an act of stubbornness on my part, raging against the modern world like that French farmer who drove his tractor into McDonald's.
The answer, as documented in an insightful book by Christopher Snowdon, lies in a combination of stubbornness on the part of anti-tobacco campaigners and the vested interests of the pharmaceutical industry.
But, perhaps more importantly, the problem is that it becomes increasingly unbelievable that so many of these people are perpetually getting in their own and (each other's) way on account of stubbornness.
In a magnificent display of stubbornness, Gardiner went on recording his "Bach cantata pilgrimage," as he called it, even after the Deutsche Grammophon label withdrew its support.
Not always a team player they say, prone to stubbornness on occasion and with a tendency sometimes to compromise and 'fix' things in the short term thus storing up long-term trouble for the future.
This apparently simple tale unpacks into a mellow, complex meditation on human stubbornness (for good and ill); on the environmental disaster that is happening all around us; on hope, love and the mystery of consciousness itself.
