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.
"He is known as an intransigent man, almost an inhuman man," the archbishop said of Pope Benedict in an interview at the Vatican Embassy in Washington.
Who is the greater hero: the morally intransigent man who refuses all compromise with evil, or the trimmer who partly collaborates with an oppressor in the hope of keeping himself and others alive?
It's the ex-marine in Clare that makes such spontaneous emissions completely natural, completely unremarkable (by him), while letting anyone else know how intransigent a man he is and would be — in a love affair, in a business deal, in a divorce, in a war.
When a man as intransigent as Martin Johnson takes the microphone in front of 84,000 people and says simply: 'I'm sorry,' to the 20,000-strong contingent that had come to support his team, you know he has reached something of a low.
He argues that although Mr McCluskey is not afraid to be fiery or unpopular, he has risen to the top precisely because he is different from the intransigent union leaders of old - men like miners' leader Arthur Scargill.
The new film follows a young couple whose romance suddenly turns violent when a benign man gradually becomes vicious and intransigent".As in my previous films, Forushande addresses how social challenges can propel the downfall of some people," Farhadi told Variety.
I'll be a husband and a black man, queer, authentic, autodidactic, sometimes intransigent, sometimes a jerk, sometimes a really good person no, always a really good person who is sometimes not nice.
The Athenians were initially intransigent, going so far as to imprison a man who suggested that a stretch of the long walls be torn down as the Spartans had insisted, but the reality of their situation soon compelled them to consider compromises.
But Mansour's successor, reactionary religious scholar Mullah Akhundzada, seems, if anything, even more intransigent and dyed-in-the-wool religionist as the man we just killed.
At one point, the two men wrestle with the common problem of an intransigent South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu (unrepresented at the secret Paris peace talks).
