intransigent

How To Use intransigent In A Sentence

• Confrontation at the University of the Witwatersrand, the administration of which it described as intransigent, highlighted the need for undemocratic and unrepresentative councils to disband and for transformation forums to be established. ANC Daily News Briefing
• At Camp David he had the opportunity to be a real President, but he has spent his life as a professional intransigent, and could not change.
• Sleep disturbances and unipolar depression are such intransigent bedfellows that troubled sleep is considered a hallmark of the mood disorder.
• Although the tax cut helped ignite a boom on Wall Street, it didn't do much to change the tune of the city's intransigent legislators.
• This intransigent attitude left me no alternative but to cancel my account. Times, Sunday Times
• In line with a recent select committee report, he backs more reconciliation and greater court powers against intransigent parents.
• Although it is conventional to refer to 'the world's oldest profession,' the term prostitution has never described a clearly defined activity and was constructed by particular social actors at a specific time for specific reasons. [i] Within feminism, the phenomenon called prostitution is the centre of an intransigent debate about its meanings, one aspect of the conflict revolving around what words should be used to describe women who offer sexual services for sale: prostitute, sex worker, prostituted woman, victim of sexual exploitation. Bitch | Lab
• Where management has been intransigent or arrogant, he has let his views be known to fellow investors or made certain that they have been aired in the financial press.
• Lake Ontario Waterkeeper's approach is unique in that it avoids that often intransigent debate altogether, maintaining that it's up to the city to find cleanup solutions.
• And not for nothing should they grieve, namely the intransigent refusal of the Indian and Pakistani governments to have a real conversation toward deescalation. CounterPunch