Sentence examples for of intransigent from inspiring English sources

The White House has clearly decided that in a town of intransigent Republicans and mean ideologues, it has to be mean and intransigent too.

Pius IX denounced the new usurping state, forbade Catholics to vote in parliamentary elections or to become candidates, and appointed a new generation of "intransigent" bishops.

After uniting with other nations behind Resolution 1441, the French sank into a position of intransigent opposition that made the current impasse almost inevitable.

The state-run "patriotic" church and the Vatican are warring anew over the consciences of believers, with the Vatican last week accusing the Chinese religious authorities of "intransigent intolerance" and the Chinese rejecting the charge as "arbitrary and rude".

White-haired and bespectacled, slumped in his chair, Mr. Ribot evoked a particular species of intransigent American folk artist: someone like John Fahey, a home-grown virtuoso, a visionary without the grandiosity.

And that's what we have in our education system: lots of faultless kids who fall through the cracks of intransigent public school systems and spend their whole lives as nonreaders.

Toni Morrison's new novel traces the history of two extraordinary communities, a town of intransigents and a house of outcasts.

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 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.

Mr. Specter, who met with President Assad about a dozen times, said he and Dr. Albright interpreted the remark not as a reflection of the intransigent attitude of the father, who was an obstacle to American policy, but rather the more flexible approach of the younger man.

The funders of the Tea Party are of the intransigent far right, but it's imprudent to dismiss all of the popular consternation -- and every person who's attended a rally or who voted for Ron Paul -- as essentially reactionary.