Even as officials here laid out their blueprint, the uncompromising stance of German officials like Wolfgang Schäuble was ringing in their ears.
Bolton, 69, a veteran US government official and uncompromising hawk who believes in the use of American military might, was announced last week as Donald Trump's third national security adviser in just 14 months.
"Along the spectrum of politics, some people are inscrutable, unpredictable and uncompromising," he said of the officials' thinking.
Even as the White House acknowledged that legislative reform of the NSA was inevitable, senior intelligence officials mounted a uncompromising defence of their current programs.
The Trump administration remains divided internally between officials who want to take an uncompromising approach toward China — allying the European Union and other trading partners in a united front — and those who favor cutting some kind of deal.
Days after the collapse of UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva, the official mood in Damascus is defiant and uncompromising.
To historians like John Lukacs, the author of several books on the period, and Martin Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer, who depict Churchill as an uncompromising hero, such remarks are evidence only of Churchill's extraordinary political skill.
Tehran's official spokesman, Gholam-Hossein Elham, yesterday set out an uncompromising opening position for any future negotiations.
The letter demanded an "unbending and uncompromising" investigation and punishment of the "political, judicial and security officials" involved in the deaths.
Texas senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president on Monday with an uncompromising speech to Liberty University in Virginia, making the firebrand Republican the first official entrant in the 2016 race.
