Sentence examples for intransigence against from inspiring English sources

Peckinpah plays Heston's square-jawed intransigence against the aristocratic refinement of a Southern officer (overplayed by Richard Harris), suggesting that Heston's character represents the encroachment of shallow, 20th-century commercial values on the heroic individualism of the 19th century — a theme that Peckinpah would soon make his own.

The "organized community" and American aid help maintain Israeli intransigence against what's seen as an uncaring and always at least potentially anti-Semitic world.

Allegations of fraud and electoral manipulation will serve to further isolate Iran and are likely to increase its belligerence and intransigence against the outside world.

He was a symbol for a particular kind of leftist protest, against police brutality, against intransigence by the authorities, against racism.

And he said, 'If you continue with this intransigence [against leaseback], on your own heads be it.

Societal therapeutic diplomacy is needed, but so is the provision by the international community of compelling incentives for agreement and against intransigence.

He has, in many cases, mostly come up against the intransigence of other players.

Rowena Mackintosh, 30, who has PIP implants, has already come up against the intransigence of the clinic that put them in.

Already, there are signs that some moderates, from the northeast and elsewhere, are disgusted with this intransigence and may vote against it tonight.

Instances wherein pro-sports participants have taken a stand against social intransigence, like the walkout of the 1965 American Football League All-Star Game by black players angered that they were denied rooms and board in the host city New Orleans, are few.

Indeed a major part of portfolio risk is the slow pace of government response and there is nothing in the fiduciary duty that removes the obligation to hedge a portfolio against political intransigence.