Sentence examples for intransigent house from inspiring English sources

But the talks did grow out of a high-profile "charm offensive" by President Obama earlier this year aimed at wooing Senate Republicans to a deficit deal and isolating more intransigent House Republicans.

As Alex Pareene noted, however, the best hope for seniors, at least for the time being, is that "intransigent House Republicans" are likely to blow up the "Grand Bargain".

Toni Morrison's new novel traces the history of two extraordinary communities, a town of intransigents and a house of outcasts.

Kathy's attempt to get back the house and Behrani's intransigent refusal to let go of it escalate toward a heavily foreshadowed catastrophe.

He has more influence over the most intransigent element in the Washington equation House Republicans.

It was a family of perpetual intransigent argument.

So it's far easier for members of Congress to rail against the one supposedly intransigent man who is preventing the great American housing recovery.

With at least one house of Congress almost certain to be under the control of intransigent Republicans through the rest of his presidency, there is little prospect for any major legislative action over the next three years.

Meanwhile it has emerged that members of the local community have written to senior civil servants at the MoD about the "capricious and intransigent manner" in which they handled the closure of the barracks before reopening it to house the Libyans.

She and her group have faced down an intransigent council – and done more than perhaps any other campaign group this year to force social housing up the political agenda.

But Obama's failure to overcome an intransigent House of Representatives even before his thrashing makes his loss of the Senate doubly debilitating and the race to fill the power vacuum ever more pressing.