Sentence examples for intransigent position from inspiring English sources

Despite the church's intransigent position on female ordination, however, the Roman Catholic women priests movement is growing exponentially.

At his confirmation hearings, Attorney General Michael Mukasey sounded as if he might agree with this intransigent position.

But at the moment we're holding back development with this intransigent position of saying it is 12 in the Premiership and it will always be.

The complex case turns largely on their intent, and legal experts said that it was easy to imagine why the lone juror had taken an intransigent position.

Japan's intransigent position on atrocities committed during the Second World War helps to fuel Chinese popular sentiment against it and makes the country an easy scapegoat for domestic discontent.

John Prendergast said that neither side would be able to give up its intransigent position: "The problem is that both Juba and Khartoum think the other is vulnerable enough to fall.

But it has been shifting from its intransigent positions of the past.

Milner declared in private early in 1898 that "war has got to come" and adopted intransigent positions.

For the past three years or so, under the leadership of Fidel's younger brother, Raúl, Cuba has abandoned some of the more intransigent positions adopted.

Opposed by liberals & conservatives, FAP, was by most standards legislation of the left, but its effect was to push the left into even more demanding & intransigent positions.

Both Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, and the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, have been urging the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations to help bolster their own intransigent positions.