How To Use Intransigent In A Sentence
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One more sour and intransigent despot finds his end.
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On the surface he was an optimistic extrovert, preaching freedom of conscience and religion; but underneath he was a brooding pessimist, with intransigent, darkly mystical views about the drama of human history and sexuality.
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It would be politically expedient to withdraw them, but the reason for their presence is an intransigent regime that refuses to do anything to allay suspicions that it is developing weapons of mass destruction.
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If the company remains intransigent, you will have reached a deadlock position and the ombudsman will take up the gauntlet on your behalf.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a world at peril, socialists need to be intransigent tribunes of the poor - fighting for universal, free access to lifeline vaccines, anti-virals and antibiotics.
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They have at times had to withstand considerable provocation from intransigent bigots on the extreme wing of unionism.
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Yet I have to say that its rigorous and intransigent atonal style with a preponderance of chromatic note clusters and major seventh and minor ninth intervals now seems outworn, its initial impact long dissipated.
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That Mullen further stated he'd served with gays and lesbians since 1968 didn't move the intransigent stick-in-the-mud Republican dogma.
John McCain's No Longer a Hero: His Stance on Patriotic Gays is Shameful and Un-American
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He can be intransigent and pig - headed at times.
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But this particular play with the dualities of public and private, viewer and viewed, in the intransigent space of a commercial gallery, fell short of an emancipatory vision.
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an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
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Olaf Peters calls the representational, highly topical style of painter Otto Dix "intransigent realism.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Dix's Mix (No Quick Fix)
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Larger than life, he accompanied each step of my journey with moods to match - allegro, penseroso, adagio, furioso: his exuberance alternated with expressions of harshness and nervous fury at life's intransigent thwarting of his will.
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For many years the South African government remained intransigent, despite mounting world opposition to apartheid.
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This caused a major crisis for the Fascist Party, however, as thousands of new adherents rushed to jump on the bandwagon, and the rapid expansion in membership split the party into rival camps of moderates and intransigents.
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But it was born out of frustration with the intransigent Football League and greed among the bigger clubs.
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The delusional belief that his solidary architectonic can be studied in isolation by decoupling it from the fundament as well as the transcendent is nothing but intransigent vanity.
Deleuze’s solidary architectonic can't be studied in isolation by decoupling it from the fundament
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The Angolan rebel UNITA organization accused the Angolan president Monday of being "intransigent" in his stance of propogating and continuing war in the country.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Many intransigent southerners never yielded the notion that the war itself was of no importance if the slave system was not maintained.
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We denounced in the strongest possible terms the intransigent and arrogant actions of the US government reflected by its decision to launch a brutal attack on the Iraqi people in defiance of world opinion," it said in a statement.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Owing to their intransigent attitude we were unable to reach an agreement.
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As inner-city neighborhoods gentrify, blight and intransigent poverty are moving out to the suburbs.
How SoHo Can Save the Suburbs
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The arrival of Islam and Nestorian Christians in the 7th century, and the famous Jesuit adaptation to Chinese culture during the 17th century, thwarted by an intransigent Vatican, are part of it.
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Sir Alex was always intransigent and denied any possibility of a transfer.
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Indeed, in my experience in this school a number of years ago, I had to deal with a very difficult and potentially dangerous situation of intransigent conflict between two groups of pupils who defined themselves along racial lines.
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Cape's Association for Community and Rural Advancement, who said that his organisation followed whatever government process to the letter of the law, so that "extreme actions" such as land occupations would be justified if government was "intransigent".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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So, at worst, a bitter contest could merely reinforce the gridlock, with a re-elected, more leftish Comrade Obama pitted against a still more intransigent Republican Congress.
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Millions of pounds of public money have been poured into campaigns designed to convince intransigent bottle-users of the error of their ways.
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It is a conflagration that burns with an intransigent force.
Times, Sunday Times
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So it is disturbing that he is so intransigent in accepting the reality of rationing: are there other arguments over which he is similarly immovable?
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For one, it is even more rigidly unable to cope with changes in the pool than an old industrial firm coping with an intransigent union.
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Let us take the arguments of La Civiltà Cattolica, the "intransigent" Jesuit journal published in Rome after 1850, as an example of the critique I am relating.
An Introductory Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
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The note is not only not a declaration of war or the prelude to a declaration of war, but a species midway of humanitarian sentimentalism and lawyerlike arguments which can have, at least for the present, but one consequence, that of encouraging Germany in intransigentism -- that is, the maintenance of her point of view regarding naval warfare.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915
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Whether they are hotheads or cool schemers, their intransigent speeches act as balm to their audience's wounds.
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Dupanloup), and other persons who reproached him with carrying doctrinal intransigentism too far and with defending religion with too great violence, though all he asked for the Church was mere liberty.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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The parties, at the moment, are too intransigent for the grand gesture.
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The intransigents I saw were old men - they won't speak to the media.
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They put pressure on the Government to change its intransigent stance.
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If the company remains intransigent, you will have reached a deadlock position and the ombudsman will take up the gauntlet on your behalf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Johannesburg, Harel said selling weapons to an "intransigent
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Too often the intensity of the choreography is cancelled out by the intransigent clamour of Muhly's music; too often it's not allowed to breathe in the calm between the squalls.
Stephen Petronio Company – review
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‘We put a number of scenarios to them to try and get something in the package for everybody but they were very intransigent, they refused to move,’ he said.
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The tranquillity of the image is a proclamation of Ireland's return to peace after long years of armed conflict, first with the British and then with its own intransigents.
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If the company remains intransigent, you will have reached a deadlock position and the ombudsman will take up the gauntlet on your behalf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Management's intransigent attitude in bargaining is a real slap in the face for employees whose valuable contributions help make Canada's food safety and inspection system one of the best in the world.
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The persistence of this sartorial custom beyond its natural lifespan—and in the American justice system of all places—is not merely a quirk of history but testament to the deep and tenaciously clubbish culture that still afflicts the highest levels and most intransigently closed circles of power.
The new Solicitor General -- Elena Kagan -- is female, so the question is: What will she wear?
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Intransigent towards ecstatics, sarcastic towards Catholics, intractable towards heretics, Calvinism participated unwittingly in the disenchantment of the world.
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Henry, my view is not "intransigent" as you claim.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Without mentioning the United States government by name, she refers to its intransigents in refusing to help international efforts to keep research safe, and she hopes other governments will strengthen preventive measures without it.
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It prizes performers and bands that do a lot of avoiding themselves: obscure or reclusive or misunderstood or intransigent or semi-extant, forerunners and satellites and outsiders, the post- and pre- and para-.
NYT > Home Page
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To many of his compatriots, this intransigent defender of French grandeur saved the honor of the nation during World War II and restored its institutions and status.
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Although a proud and intransigent woman, she had a natural curiosity about the world.
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This intransigent attitude left me no alternative but to cancel my account.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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They effectively suspended the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement on behalf of intransigent unionists, and are now in the process of jettisoning it without any reference to the referendum result, north and south.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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In line with a recent select committee report, he backs more reconciliation and greater court powers against intransigent parents.
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This intransigent attitude left me no alternative but to cancel my account.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Sleep disturbances and unipolar depression are such intransigent bedfellows that troubled sleep is considered a hallmark of the mood disorder.
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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.
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The couple were a Calvinist pastor of the most unrelenting kind and his equally intransigent spouse.
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Owing to their intransigent attitude we were unable to reach an agreement.
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I am still proud to call myself Australian, although I am embarrassed that my government is proving so intransigent and stubborn.
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Unions claim that the management continues to maintain an intransigent position.
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They put pressure on the Government to change its intransigent stance.
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Instead, the conclave of 1903 elected Pius X, whom the Italian government had dubbed ‘the most intransigent of the intransigents.’
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But it looks like I might have to so because Sligo County Council are proving very intransigent on this issue.
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He was an intransigent fighter for the working class under the banner of internationalism for 30 years.
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He now faces a stark decision between moving forward and doing what we believe is in his best interests, pursuing a path of peace -- or pursuing a path that's best described as intransigent and aggressive.
Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart
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The real opposite of the sublime is, of course, the intransigently banal and commonsensical.
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For this lifelong Londoner and intransigent radical, the city was always two-fold.
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It is a conflagration that burns with an intransigent force.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's easy to get all fired up and angry about such ostensible intransigent clericalism, but I think we need to know more about this situation.
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A cast of secondary characters make their entrances and exits: an oddball aviator, an intransigent prisoner, a casuistical priest.
Intellectual Intrigue in Mexico City
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Story after story, not simply of abusive priests but of mendacious bishops, intransigent superiors of religious orders, and venal curial officials, seems to pour out daily.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Sin Inside the Church
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Steel unions blame the company's intransigent management, the ease with which workers can be axed in the UK and the punitive strength of sterling for the latest cuts.
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It is a sudden conflagration that burns with a fierce, intransigent force.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a sudden conflagration that burns with a fierce, intransigent force.
Times, Sunday Times
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DOBBS: I just wondered if it had come up because it would seem to be, to me at least, an appropriate remedy for that kind of intransigent failure to fulfill a responsibility to our service members in this country.
CNN Transcript May 9, 2008
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Whether they are hotheads or cool schemers, their intransigent speeches act as balm to their audience's wounds.
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If the company remains intransigent, you will have reached a deadlock position and the ombudsman will take up the gauntlet on your behalf.
Times, Sunday Times
