Even now the king remained intransigent, especially over the issue of episcopacy.
When next Apple must face-off with this intransigent White House over criminality or terrorism attacks at home, any protestations they make will be empty after their capitulation in China.
Still, when asked how the academy had landed in its current situation, Mr. Haas allowed that some "somewhat intransigent age-75-and-over artists probably had something to do with it".
Because most voters say they want compromise, we could also try to change electoral institutions to gain a greater voice for majorities over intransigent minorities on both sides.
When you think about what Amazon is building beyond its own direct business lines, however, you might see how ultimately its moves in technology and logistics might be what helps to win over intransigent brands.
The centrist Democrat is content; the liberal either still smoldering over intransigent lawmakers or basking in vindication.
In the grips of a militant Sunni insurgency, ruled over by an intransigent Shiite government, intractably enmeshed in Syria's sprawling civil war, Iraq sits in sectarian tatters.
But the Brotherhood argues that it has little control over an intransigent institution, loyal to Mubarak holdovers, that will take years to reform.
He has more influence over the most intransigent element in the Washington equation House Republicans.
Yet, on a federal level, Democrats have largely shied away from moonshot legislation that would push the climate policy debate more to the center after it has been dragged to the right over the past decade by intransigent Republicans who turned the discussion to whether to accept objective scientific findings in the first place. .
Darling was predictably strong on the figures but came over as stiff and occasionally intransigent.
