Sentence examples for they were intransigent from inspiring English sources

The Liberal MP lobbied ministers and British Railway officials to keep the line open as a branch line serving Borders towns but he says they were "intransigent".

Republicans strongly disputed Mr. Brown's view that they have been intransigent, saying that they were prepared to reach a budget compromise but that Mr. Brown was unwilling to give on issues like pension cutbacks or spending caps because of allegiance to labor unions.

These papers show that the Israelis were intransigent in public – and intransigent in private.

In the face of growing protests, governors and mayors — who at first were intransigent — rushed to lower the transportation rates.

Some Democrats have concluded that their decision earlier this summer to thwart votes on alternatives left them open to criticism that they were being intransigent.

Should the G.O.P. enter into yet another budget showdown with Mr. Obama in which they appear to be intransigent, eager to slash spending programs for the poor and determined to secure tax breaks for the rich?

They are desperate to make it appear as if President Obama and the Democrats are the ones being intransigent, hoping voters will think that everyone is at fault and simply blame "Washington".

Tapbots contacted Twitter to see if they could implement a workaround to prevent wasting user tokens during the free alpha test, but Twitter was intransigent.

Yet Martoma was intransigent.

Above all, he was intransigent.

"Angela Merkel is wrong to be intransigent.