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For your intransigent tenant, may I suggest "What Now?," a wise and winning short volume based on Ann Patchett's 2006 commencement address at Sarah Lawrence Patchettt says, "Pay attention to the things [you'll] probably never need to know," which reassured me, since that's all I pay attention to); also, the amusing "How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto," by Tom Hodgkinson (Amazon; $5.18, $5.58).
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"I just believe in the most intransigent of ways that you vote for your convictions".
Some Chelsea fans blamed Liverpool for being intransigent.
India is adducing its poor as the reason for its intransigent stand.
He also, drawing on skills honed in his Queens days, showed an aptitude for pushing intransigent bureaucracies and working the press.
Well, maybe the idea was that the parties would compromise out of fear that there would be a political price for seeming intransigent.
But for some intransigent believers in the occult, the safety of their own homes offers no escape from a phantom of the theater.
There was widespread public anger about Miller's unhelpfulness towards the parliamentary standards commissioner and her perfunctory Commons apology for her intransigent behaviour.
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.
Braga's family was Roman Catholic and monarchist by tradition, but he himself soon became noted for his intransigent republicanism and anticlericalism at Coimbra University, from which he graduated in 1868.
To their credit, in spite of the uncertainty and their reputation for being intransigent, institutions of higher ed have begun to support and even develop their own MOOC platforms (like MIT, Harvard and UC Berkeley's joint venture, EdX).
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