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Likewise, the moments he depicts may be fleeting, but there is always a deeper intransigence about them.

Republican intransigence about the D.C. Circuit nominees finally brought around even the most senior Democrats to the idea of filibuster reform.

A growing chorus of congressmen, including Senators Rick Santorum, Peter Fitzgerald and Charles Grassley, now dares to complain about sugar protectionism.America's trade ambassador, Robert Zoellick, has just trotted off around the world to revive the WTO negotiations that collapsed, as it happens, over American and European intransigence about freer farm trade.

His intransigence about maintaining absolute control over his work largely accounts for why he made so few sound pictures, and the one occasion when he lost that control - over the casting of his two-actor chamber drama Two People (1945) - proved so disastrous that he often refused to acknowledge the film's existence.

Germany's intransigence about balanced budgets is actually counterproductive.

Sending a message to the World Economic Forum in Davos in late January, Daw Suu seemed to indicate that she had listened to those concerned with the NLD's hidebound intransigence about economic matters.

(See Republican intransigence, above).

Such a movement went home from Copenhagen six years ago broken-hearted about about their governments' intransigence.

Brian Williams of NBC was talking to former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell about political intransigence when former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, suddenly appeared on the screen.

Terry Golway, the author of "So Others Might Live" (Basic Books, 2002), a history of the Fire Department, said Mr. Shaw was correct about the intransigence of New York firefighters.

Instead of drawing clear lines and putting forward detailed proposals, the president has played Mr. Compromise — ceding ground to Republicans here, sermonizing about Tea Party intransigence and Washington gridlock there, and fleshing out his preferred approach reluctantly, if at all.