Sentence examples for and intransigent in the from inspiring English sources

British policy, he argued, had been both imprudent and inconsistent, but above all legalistic and intransigent, in the assertion of imperial rights.

The news of the previously undisclosed investigation comes as the Fed faces criticism from congressional Democrats who believe the central bank is too beholden to Wall Street in its supervision of the nation's financial system, and from Republicans who say it is overly secretive and intransigent in the way it controls the nation's money supply through its influence over interest rates.

But Mansour's successor, reactionary religious scholar Mullah Akhundzada, seems, if anything, even more intransigent and dyed-in-the-wool religionist as the man we just killed.

That Mullen further stated he'd served with gays and lesbians since 1968 didn't move the intransigent stick-in-the-mud Republican dogma.

He said of his actions: "The goodwill has been tested and universities are becoming excessively intransigent in the way that they proceed.

With America unwilling to hold Israel accountable to international law and existing agreements, Israel has remained intransigent in the face of international efforts to revive genuine negotiations.

The NFL and Washington's owner have remained intransigent in the face of continued opposition to that name.

No one was more intransigent in the literary standards he applied to writing in general but most of all to his own.

"He's very intransigent — in the best sense of the word," says the director Sydney Pollack, who turned in a splendid acting performance as one of the self-deceived spouses in "Husbands and Wives".

No one was more intransigent in the literary standards he applied to writing in general but most of all to his own.

Bristol may have been intransigent in the talks with the RFU, but the union announcing the appointment of someone whose resignation had not been accepted and without giving Bristol warning does not smack of good governance.