How To Use Intransigence In A Sentence
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The city's intransigence has hardened already hard upstate opposition.
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In his work, formal intransigence was soon transformed into outright aggression.
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Sent down to the underworld, Baldur is denied release by the intransigence of a giantess—Loki in disguise?
Gods and Monsters
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March 22nd, 2010 at 7: 31 pm tombaker says: perserverance can be admirable. intransigence is counterproductive (and irritating).
Think Progress » Democratic Offices Vandalized In Days Surrounding Health Care Vote
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He often appeared angry and frustrated by the intransigence of both sides.
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It avoids the "I shall not be moved "intransigence of the assertive style.
Christianity Today
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This case may be the first in which EPA intransigence proves to be a boon to environmentalists.
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Increasingly, Mr Kabila's duplicity and intransigence were seen by all as the chief obstacle to any such agreement.
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Becoming somewhat worried by her intransigence, they insisted she make out a deed surrendering her right to implead them for their misconduct.
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The breakdown of the peace process was blamed entirely on him, whose ‘intransigence’ was ‘support for terrorism’ and made him an unsurmountable obstacle to peace.
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Intransigence and personal suffering highlighted the principle at stake and emphasized the need of fighting for it.
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As James Fallows of The Atlantic put it so accurately, Netanyahu is the "Dick Cheney of Israel," characterizing the former vice president as someone who, "mistook short-term intransigence for long-term strategic wisdom, seemed blind and tone-deaf to the 'moral' and 'soft power' components of influence, profited from a polarized and fearful political climate, and attempted to command rather than earn support from allies and potential adversaries.
Stephen Zunes: Netanyahu's Speech and the Democrats' Dangerous Embrace of Extremism
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Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by wards, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool utterly trashed.
Rhetorical Thirst (rev)
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Colleagues who have been frustrated by his omnipotence and intransigence in five years of government, have scented the faint whiff of blood in the water.
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In its many scenes of devastation, the script shows intransigence on both sides.
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This year, intransigence seemed to be the order of the day.
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Views: panoramicAuntie tweezers tales of boggling provenance from antique archives; adds F Bruce in provocative knitwearMaximal corporate hubris x incentivised boardroom intransigence = 140% idiotainmentLavish biography infuses wry top notes with curlicues of smoky boffinry.
TV turn-ons and turn-offs
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We have reached a certain bedrock of intransigence in
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
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The intransigence is all from the right - so much for bipartisanship.
Did Obama have a good 2009?
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Progress in the talks was blocked by the Government's intransigence.
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It avoids the "I shall not be moved "intransigence of the assertive style.
Christianity Today
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Other workers have saluted and respected their determination and defiance, and blame Labour for the intransigence of the employers.
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And Tony's had no problem recognizing and straightening out the kid's intransigence in previous seasons.
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On Capitol Hill, Democrats seized on the Fed chairman's remarks to criticize Republicans for what they described as intransigence during the debt ceiling negotiations.
NYT > Home Page
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Americans have become so frustrated by the blockheaded Bush administration and their intransigence on every issue (and the failure of Congress to be able to check Bush and the NeoCons) that this election was seen as the one way we would be able to move past them and turn over a new leaf.
Poll: 2 out of 3 Dems think long nomination battle hurting party
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A weak and compromised Democratic Party may struggle to take full advantage of these developments for a time and most Americans will suffer in the meantime, because GOP intransigence and Democratic recalcitrance will hurt our prospects for recovery and for visionary long-term problem-solving.
Jonathan Weiler: Why the Republicans Will Misread Tomorrow's Elections Results
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It dwarfs all the other buildings in the area and exudes an air of bureaucratic intransigence and implacable arrogance.
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As our collective anger collides head-on with our political system's intransigence, we're stuck with a classic case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.
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The intransigence of the board's old-line majority, however, requires little explanation.
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It also commended Numsa members for continuing with the strike despite what it called the intransigence and arrogance of employers.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by words, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool trashed.
Archive 2007-04-01
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His intransigence in climbing the mountain, his insistence on understanding, is a metaphor for what the book itself does.
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He also said that he felt agreement could be achieved, if everyone was committed to doing so and slammed "backwoodsmen" within the DUP for intransigence.
Northern Ireland Local News
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The agreement's authors call it a purposeful end-run around the intransigence of national governments.
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Is there any hint of extremism, intransigence, or just downright hostility in your attitude to certain brands?
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In 2003, the legislative elections were cancelled due to this intransigence.
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His intransigence was a refusal to bend within the social sciences.
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The efforts failed due to unionist intransigence and nationalist boycott.
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For all its buccaneering swagger, the quality that sets the current Australian team apart from its rugby union contemporaries is its defensive intransigence.
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Ruling in FOIA case condones DOS intransigence on ancient coin import restrictions
State Department Adds New Import Restrictions : Coin Collecting News
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She couldn't have been more than twenty-three or -four, but she had all the steely intransigence of the Brigade of Guards.
DEAD BEAT
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More troubling, the results will encourage more intransigence from Beijing.
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It planned for a mock battle, shammed unity, and were confused by the intransigence and solidarity of the other side.
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Political intransigence has had the opposite effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now Thatcher's famous intransigence provided the perfect foil to the image being built of the noble rebel.
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The printed word is no match for intransigence and self-deception, however, so the papers keep stacking up as the crisis deepens.
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The book discusses real world issues ranging from browser quirks to client intransigence.
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Carnaptious and caustic, his intransigence could make him, by turn, infuriating and impossible to work with.
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His intransigence on the issue is probably no surprise to lawmakers who have encountered his infamous temper.
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Andreas S. Kakouris Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United S.ates Washington Messrs. Abramowitz and Barkey blame the Cypriot president and his alleged intransigence for the nonsolution in Cyprus.
Turkey's Occupation Is the Cyprus Problem
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Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by wards, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool utterly trashed.
Rhetorical Thirst (rev)
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Martha, Mary and their friends at the Women's Centre are trying to do their bit for the feminist movement but are usually thwarted by the intransigence of conventional outlooks and hidebound attitudes to gender.
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Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by words, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool trashed.
Archive 2007-04-01
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As our collective anger collides head-on with our political system's intransigence, we're stuck with a classic case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.
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Hanan Ashrawi says it is Israeli intransigence that has long stood in the way of peace.
