According to Mr King, Germany became "more intransigent about issues than anyone would have believed".
If the effort succeeds, and California scrapes out of yet another budget mess, it would further allow the governor to pursue his final goals of health care for all Californians and some sort of answer to the state's intransigent water supply issues.
Here, the Home Office remains unswervingly intransigent on the issue, insisting that there are no plans to review prostitution laws.
The Indian government has long been intransigent on the issue of Kashmir — preferring to blame Pakistan for fomenting violence rather than address Kashmiris' legitimate aspirations for freedom or honor its own promises to resolve the issue according to the wishes of Kashmiri people and investigate the crimes of its army.
In a letter sent to her last month, 73-year-old Jim Tilley, who moved to Australia in 1971 and is honorary chairman of the British Pensions in Australia group, said: "We pray that … you will see reason to request your government to be less intransigent about this issue".
His optimism was not justified: neither this letter nor the Council of Nicaea itself nor the second letter, in which Constantine urged acceptance of its conclusions, was adequate to solve a dispute in which the participants were as intransigent as the theological issues were subtle.
Japan wants "sacred" agricultural products—such as rice, wheat and sugar exempted from the free-trade regime.Chatter that Japan was proving so intransigent on these basic issues that the other 11 countries were contemplating going ahead without it was implicitly dismissed by the US Trade Representative, Michael Froman.
Even now the king remained intransigent, especially over the issue of episcopacy.
Yet, without having fully thought out the consequences, he let himself in July 1914 be persuaded by Leopold, Graf (count) von Berchtold, the foreign minister, to issue the intransigent ultimatum to Serbia that led to World War I.
