Sentence examples for reduced intransigence from inspiring English sources

Bush's war cheerleaders jumped up and down, proclaiming Libya's reduced intransigence as a sign that liberty was finally taking root in the Middle East -- er... Africa, I mean.

Turkish intransigence has delayed and reduced in size the development of the Caspian off-shore Shah Deniz gas project.

Mr Trichet's intransigence on this point led to a hopelessly fudged European deal in July which barely reduced Greek debt at all (the supposed 21% cut in the debt's net present value is in fact closer to 5%).

Given the Republicans credit for checkmating almost every Obama effort to reduce inequality and increase wages, including their intransigence on raising the federal minimum wage.

It also encourages the intransigence of the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and reduces the chance of a peace settlement.

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats said Monday that they would try for the fifth time in two months to raise taxes on top earners to pay for legislation that would reduce Social Security payroll taxes, as President Obama sought to keep Congressional Republicans on the defensive, asserting that their intransigence could cause a tax increase for tens of millions of American workers.

Yet discussions about how to reduce barriers for industrial goods which are far higher in poor countries than rich ones are at an impasse, thanks largely to the intransigence of big emerging economies, such as India and Brazil.

In the thirty-one months since, in the face of congressional intransigence, he has used executive power to commit the U.S. to the Paris Agreement on climate change, to institute the Clean Power Plan to reduce emissions, to restrict new energy exploration in the Arctic Ocean and new coal leases on government land, to cap many student-loan payments, and to tighten rules on gun sales.

But the line between perseverance and intransigence is thin.

I know their intransigence.

(See Republican intransigence, above).