Facing the commission are stubborn facts illustrating the dangers to the lake.

But the candidate himself is hewing to one stubborn fact: The election has not yet been held.

So this latest exchange would hardly be noteworthy were it not for two stubborn and irritating facts.

That stubborn fact must be taken into account, not pretended away.

And we cannot forget one stubborn fact that has not yet been said as clearly as it should.

The stubborn fact is that adults tune in by the thousands.

Surely, common sense tells us, there is a hard core of stubborn facts that we are powerless to alter.

"The stubborn fact remains," one read, "that whether or not we believe, they most assuredly do."

Past wrongs to the black race, wrongs committed by the state and in its name, are a stubborn fact of history.

All New Yorkers, he warned, must "live with the stubborn fact of annihilation."