Sentence examples for intransigent of from inspiring English sources

In 1961, Mississippi was thought of as the most intransigent of the Southern states.

"I just believe in the most intransigent of ways that you vote for your convictions".

One reason, he added, was opposition from Spain, the most intransigent of the five EU members that still refuse to recognise the independence of Kosovo.

I pointed out that the leader of the lay opposition, Karim Sanjabi, was due to go to Paris to see the most intransigent of the religious leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

But it's nice to see that the principles they espoused are hard at work by people across the globe, being driven by young men and women who, as Sargent Shriver said in the 1963 speech, "are proving, if proof is needed, that deeply committed individuals, prepared to work and sacrifice, can have a profound effect on the most difficult and intransigent of problems".

The past becomes much more than an architectural curiosity, as Dalrymple attempts in this technically ambitious book the difficult job of carving a human narrative out of the intransigent mass of untouched archival material: the letters of Kirkpatrick and other British officials, the Persian chronicles of the time.

The old "intransigents" of the Opera dei Congressi, deeply hostile to a united Italy, were replaced early in the century by a new generation of moderate Catholic leaders favoured by Pius X, who even dissolved the Opera dei Congressi in 1904 and brought the Catholic lay movement under the bishops.

The power of an intransigent minority of senators to block the president's choices was severely curtailed in November last year, when Senate Democrats scrapped the filibuster for most appointments.

This is the highly probable collapse of the present government of Algeria, and its replacement by a singularly intransigent bunch of Islamic rebels, fundamentalists of the most bloody-minded sort.

"This decision represents an intransigent embrace of a pattern of life Christians throughout history and the world have rejected as against biblical teaching," said Mr. Harmon, an adviser to the diocesan bishop.

In just that week, the Party of No's intransigent campaign of obstruction and obfuscation went belly up.