Sentence examples for look intransigent from inspiring English sources

Yet the Democrats do not appear worried that they will look intransigent, something Republicans frequently accuse them of being.

The list was strategic: the regime would look intransigent, allowing the monks to ratchet up the pressure.

He called for a much broader coalition that would include anti-bailout parties as part of what analysts suggested was a tactic to make radical parties like Syriza look intransigent.

So the goal may be to paint the G.O.P. into a corner, making Republicans look like intransigent extremists — which they are.

I'm sure that this speech looked confrontational and intransigent on television in ways that it just didn't in the hall, inside the bubble.

Intransigent iconodules looked for their leaders among the monks of Studion, the monastery founded by Studius, and they found one in the person of the monastery's abbot, St. Theodore Studites (759 826).

Westminster is just one of Mother England's children, and now looks increasingly like an aged, intransigent delinquent, unfit for society or purpose.

Seen this way, the issue of settlements looks less like the raw intransigent battle of idealists and ideologies that it is usually painted as.

If that is true, he may want to convey it to Ms. Gillard, who, plagued by a reputation for disloyalty, a wooden speaking style and an intransigent opposition, finds herself in territory that would look remarkably familiar to Mr. Rudd.

While optimists look for signs of a change in attitude from a traditionally intransigent and, to be frank, racist elite – an indigenous leader was invited recently to open a major business conference – there is depressingly little evidence that wealthy Guatemalans are putting the needs of the majority ahead of their perceived need for private jets, gated communities and vast tracts of unused land.

Suddenly health-care reform looks alive again, naysaying Republicans no longer look like the principled opposition party but rather a bunch of intransigent cranks, and the president comes off looking like a bipartisan rationalist.