Sentence examples for At intransigent from inspiring English sources

I also had shared inedible and incredible meals, slept in strange places, cursed at intransigent superiors, and laughed at death but never had time to cry for the dying.

But we have watched again and again as President Obama seems to open negotiations with the position he believes he can get -- starting at five -- and watch as intransigent Republicans whittle him down again and again.

"We were not at all intransigent," said Leslie Cagan of United for Peace and Justice.

He suggested that the committee of ministers, which supervises implementation on behalf of the member states, should hold public hearings – similar to those held by parliamentary select committees – at which intransigent states would be asked to explain their non-compliance.

Some Clinton boosters were visibly annoyed at the intransigent Sanders supporters.

At several points in the past year, Mr. Keating has portrayed the bishops as intransigent.

In the face of growing protests, governors and mayors — who at first were intransigent — rushed to lower the transportation rates.

The distinct creaking of cinema seats could be heard as the action shifted underground and the gym-honed landowner was seen hacking away at a particularly intransigent seam, naked from the waist up.

But if China was intransigent at the talks in the Danish capital, it was British and EU insistence on abandoning the 1997 Kyoto treaty which was the immediate cause of the talks' breakdown, and nearly led to a complete and humiliating collapse of two years of negotiations between 192 countries.

I removed them from the oven and let them stew in their own delectable juices while I flipped the place mats over to hide the chicken stains from the night before, dimmed the lights, took another peek at my initially intransigent but now flirty little strawberries, and it was 7 o'clock and Natasha had not arrived.

Labelling the attempt at censorship an outrage, Taleb said he had been accused of stubbornness for rejecting the instruction: "I have always been intransigent … intransigence is something I value".