Sentence examples for intransigent at from inspiring English sources

But if China was intransigent at the talks in the Danish capital, it was British and EU insistence on abandoning the 1997 Kyoto treaty which was the immediate cause of the talks' breakdown, and nearly led to a complete and humiliating collapse of two years of negotiations between 192 countries.

However, it is very clear from an initial examination of the papers that the policy pursued by Thatcher in 1981 was inflexible, intransigent and at crucial points duplicitous.

Nicu Popescu, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the shooting might force both Mr. Shevchuk and his Moldovan counterparts "toward more intransigent positions at a time when people believed there was an opening".

For in his evangelical heart he knew that if he hoped to get his radical message about the need for new, more restrictive hunting regulations across to Pennsylvania's army of a million deer hunters, he would have to do it one skeptical, sometimes intransigent sportsman at a time.

I also had shared inedible and incredible meals, slept in strange places, cursed at intransigent superiors, and laughed at death but never had time to cry for the dying.

With Republicans as intransigent as they are, voting Democrat still represents the greatest chance at meaningful and comprehensive immigration reform.

Others have been as intransigent as ever.

Just intransigents playing at "cat and mouse".

But he insists that the blame for the tube strike that brought London to a halt lies squarely in others' hands: "intransigent management" is at fault, as well as Boris Johnson for a "belligerent approach".

Labelling the attempt at censorship an outrage, Taleb said he had been accused of stubbornness for rejecting the instruction: "I have always been intransigent … intransigence is something I value".

"We were not at all intransigent," said Leslie Cagan of United for Peace and Justice.