Sentence examples for intransigent demands from inspiring English sources

Developing countries nearly derailed the Doha round in 2003 by forming a bloc whose intransigent demands for cuts in rich-country agricultural supports brought an important meeting in Cancún, Mexico to a screeching halt.

Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America's most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible.

Perry, who is the sort of person who calls other guys "dude," used to be a cotton farmer, a group that seems to have a special talent for combining rugged individualism with intransigent demands for government assistance.

A Republican close to the talks said it was Democrats who had been intransigent, demanding tax increases as part of any deal.

The more intransigent their demands, the more they may please their electorates (ie, the greater the "option premium").

In defense, bank Vice President Benjenk replies that the bank may have been too intransigent in past demands, creating resentment and foot-dragging that can torpedo a project.

But the company remained intransigent on its demand for eliminating the union shop.

Regional and social divisions have bred intransigent interest groups whose demands cannot often be reconciled by a fragmented political system.

As Elizabeth Hardwick once wrote in Harper's, good literary criticism must involve "the unusual, the difficult, the lengthy, the intransigent," and it certainly demands more than the "few tightly organized pages" the newspaper allows.

Intransigent commanders have ignored demands to appoint provincial officials and hand over customs taxes, and a lack of financing and security has imperiled the electoral registration process, the delegates found.

No magazine had that kind of space, even had this ever-intransigent photographer not demanded total control over layout and text.