Sentence examples for intransigent it from inspiring English sources

The problem with just standing tough is that it is likely to backfire; Iran is understandably nervous, and if it thinks America is intransigent, it might double down on its nuclear program, speeding it up past a point of no return.

It means sticking to principles, but also attempting to understand the other side, however irrational or intransigent it may sometimes appear.

Whether or not they will ever come back is open to question, but Wall Street made clear this week just how intransigent it would be in resisting the kind of changes that might convince investors the waters were safe.

Diplomats and scholars of China-North Korea history say that although China increasingly regards North Korea as intransigent, it does not wish to take any steps that would collapse North Korea's government.

Yes, somehow the problem with this Grand Bargain isn't that one side of the bargaining table is utterly intransigent, it's that the guy who's done all the sacrificing and compromising hasn't yet cracked the secret code that unleashes the other side's "sanity".

It is one thing to continue to spout intransigent dogma; it will be quite another to have to deal with the ultimate reality of the actual damage following through with shutting down the government and ruining our financial standing in the world will bring.

Baghdad remains intransigent, saying it has no intention of readmitting U.N. inspectors, although that is the only way it can qualify for relief from economic sanctions.

But the truth is, we are equally intransigent when it comes to changing our own behaviors as caregivers.

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.

In an astonishing about-turn from the NRA's normally intransigent position, it added: "The NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again".

Wait Out the Succession Crisis 4. (C) Elaborating on his assessment that a power transition was near, Logvinov hypothesized that Pyongyang was being particularly intransigent because it wanted to demonstrate strength to the outside world and mask the power struggle occurring internally.