For years many nations turned a cold shoulder toward Syria, contending it had a shadowy reputation on terrorism, an intransigent attitude toward peace with Israel, and dominated its neighbor, Lebanon.
Ron Novick Orange, Conn., Dec. 1, 2008 To the Editor: Roger Cohen hits the nail on the head when he endorses Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's assessment of Israel's need to reverse its intransigent position toward the Palestinians and to deal with the issue headlong, with reason and with historical understanding.
If they are seen as too intransigent or antagonistic toward the president, they risk alienating the public and harming their chances to win the real prize: the White House.
Nicu Popescu, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the shooting might force both Mr. Shevchuk and his Moldovan counterparts "toward more intransigent positions at a time when people believed there was an opening".
This time, the military government was quite intransigent in its attitude toward the other groups within the weakened industrialist alliance.
But under the leadership of Ruhollah Khomeini, who bore a strong personal animosity toward Ṣaddām, Iran remained intransigent and continued the war in an effort to overthrow the Iraqi leader.
Kathy's attempt to get back the house and Behrani's intransigent refusal to let go of it escalate toward a heavily foreshadowed catastrophe.
The special envoy President Harry S. Truman sent to Tehran to seek a compromise in the oil dispute, W. Averell Harriman, reported that the British held a "completely 19th-century colonial attitude toward Iran," but found Mr. Mossadegh just as intransigent.
An intransigent Congress or hardliners on the other side could undo all the moves toward diplomacy.
For 14 years we fought in court, and we fought an intransigent city administration unwilling to admit there was a problem let alone work toward a solution.
