A wiry guy in a blue turtleneck and suède moccasins, he was equable but stubborn.
As a way to tackle America's unusually stubborn chronic unemployment problem, Obama is expected to announce a deal with the leaders of large employers, for example, that will involve them agreeing not to discriminate against the long-term unemployed when making hiring decisions.
Increasingly, the German public is getting frustrated with the stubborn refusal of the crisis to resolve itself.
In many ways this was actually a very defensive budget, adapting to and neutralising Labour attacks, spraying out some one nation-style quasi-egalitarian rhetoric to cover up the stubborn smell of self-serving privilege clinging to the Tory brand.
The second stubborn myth, recycled on the BBC this week, is that the demise of the coal industry was simply a matter of profit and loss.
For the moment, however, their group of roughly 55 rebel clergy has to rely on stubborn faith.
"Thran" translates as stubborn or obstinate and neatly encapsulates the attitude of that tribe at the edge of the union in all matters including politics.
Newman seems older than 23, unsurprising given his turbulent upbringing and what he describes as his "stubborn" character.
Sábado Gigante's interracial sketches illustrate the stubborn inequity among Latinos in the Americas: although we share a geographic region, Latinos are not one race of people.
The net effect: not only are you worrying about juggling your finances and losing those stubborn extra pounds, but you're also fretting about the economy, people suffering in conflict zones, disappearing glaciers and endangered species.
Welcome as this is, Bayern will perhaps hope their manager spends part of the summer pondering his defensive repertoire for an occasion such as this, where the refusal to crouch behind the guard a little can become a point of stubborn principle.
