Sentence examples for intransigent in from inspiring English sources

The company was "absolutely intransigent" in negotiations, claims the government.

Being intransigent in a formal budget conference, however, would put Republicans in a bind.

The foie gras debate is among the most intransigent in food.

Mrs. Clinton said the North Koreans had been intransigent in their public statements during the conference.

He is intransigent in his denunciation of the courts and the justice system".

He was very cross with Juncker for telling EU business leaders to be "intransigent" in their dealings with British companies.

That Mullen further stated he'd served with gays and lesbians since 1968 didn't move the intransigent stick-in-the-mud Republican dogma.

Why not tip your hat to the moderate modernizers like Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad, the president and prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, who have struggled, despite the intransigence of Israel and the intransigents in their own ranks, to tamp down the violence and build the rudiments of a state?

Now, with two intransigent sides dug in, the way forward is murky and dangerous.

UN officials have repeatedly stressed the difficulty of operating in Sudan, where cooperation with an intransigent government in Khartoum — itself a major party to the conflict — is unavoidable.

Alvin Lustig's abstract patterns for New Directions editions of Kafka, Henry Miller, and Djuna Barnes in the forties do not seem much more modernist than Arthur Hawkins's sans-serif, Art Deco-ish designs for Shaw and W. Olaf Stapledon in the thirties, though there is a certain intransigent aloofness in the modest size of Lustig's title typefaces.