In such a context, that the Paisleyites did not win more decisively last week was a comment on the profound distrust of vast layers of Northern Irish Protestant society for the intransigent and self-righteous politicians of the DUP.
An appeal to the European court of human rights, where the author's intransigent stance on freedom of speech would most likely have been upheld, will not be an option: De Luca has already declared that he will not appeal the sentence.
"The lack of an agreement so far is not due to the supposed intransigent, uncompromising and incomprehensible Greek stance," he wrote.
Meanwhile it has emerged that members of the local community have written to senior civil servants at the MoD about the "capricious and intransigent manner" in which they handled the closure of the barracks before reopening it to house the Libyans.
In his Today show appearance, Cruz rejected the notion that he was an intransigent extremist whose unbending positions in the Senate had made him an enemy of compromise – the most glaring evidence of which, his critics say, being the partial shutdown of the federal government he helped precipitate in October 2013 with a profoundly feckless attempt to block the president's healthcare law.
She was up against the most intransigent, ruthless Opposition imaginable.
Steny Hoyer, the number two in the Democratic hierarchy in the House, said this week that his party should not undermine negotiations by ruling out benefit cuts on principle.Perhaps the best reason to suppose that Democrats may be less intransigent than they appear on entitlements, however, is that it is not their focus in the negotiations.
Bosnia won the deal only after its intransigent leaders wore down their EU partners into accepting a watered-down version of reform for Bosnia's police.Miroslav Lajcak, the international pro-consul in Bosnia, argues that most of its 3.8m people now put jobs and prosperity above the old national questions.
After two decades as the Turkish-Cypriots' wily chief spokesman and most intransigent "negotiator" he declared, in November 1983, unilateral independence, and ruled as a one-man show for the next 22 years.Although he formally accepted the idea of a loose federation, a two-state settlement was his overwhelming desire.
But as the homeless become fewer and more intransigent, eradication seems less realistic.
He can claim that, thanks to the forceful use of his powers (sacking intransigent elected officials, for example), he has led Bosnia "from Dayton to Brussels" (see article).Foreigners are more impressed than the Bosnians themselves with all this.
