Sentence examples for example of intransigence from inspiring English sources

The refusal of Pharmac and the Health and Disability Commission to approve ketamine as a treatment is an example of intransigence, a hesitation to establish new protocols allowing psychiatrists to try out new things and accomplish significant new research.

Israel continues to flout world-wide public opinion; the clearest example of its intransigence is its determination to continue to build the wall through Palestinian territories despite the 2004 decision of the international court.

President Andrés Pastrana, who has entered his final year in office after engaging for the last three years in so-far fruitless peace talks, called the rebels' refusal an "example of FARC intransigence".

An example of the intransigence of growing numbers of Americans to the idea of rational discourse is the so-called Tea-bag revolution.

And Illinois, with 8,567 governmental entities, is a prime example of hidebound duplication, political intransigence and agencies whose existence is rarely questioned.

In a prominent example of the new Pakistani intransigence, The New York Times reported Tuesday that, according to American officials, Pakistan's spy agency had arrested five Pakistani informants who helped the Central Intelligence Agency before the Bin Laden raid.

Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, was quoted as having referred to this case as an example of xenophobia, incompetence, stupidity and then bureaucratic intransigence.

This is a story of intransigence.

The meeting saw flashes of intransigence.

Critics on the right accused her of intransigence.

Alain Lamassoure, a senior legislator, accused some countries of intransigence.