Sentence examples for which intransigent from inspiring English sources

He suggested that the committee of ministers, which supervises implementation on behalf of the member states, should hold public hearings – similar to those held by parliamentary select committees – at which intransigent states would be asked to explain their non-compliance.

This is clearly of relevance to rheumatology and orthopaedics, in which intransigent pain is a frequent dominant symptom.

Thus, he resorted increasingly to ultranationalistic appeals to hold popular support and incurred the animosity of the U.S. government, which encouraged intransigent opposition from his enemies.

We can only make our best effort to address conditions which, while apparently intransigent, can yield before the concerted will of community-wide effort.

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

The late and much-missed Peter Fuller, who championed Lowry in the first issue of the now as-good-as-defunct Modern Painters, saw in his provinciality an example of that "informed and often intransigent insularity" which constituted the great strength of English painting.

There is no issue upon which this religion is so intransigent as the one of monotheism.

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?

Meanwhile it has emerged that members of the local community have written to senior civil servants at the MoD about the "capricious and intransigent manner" in which they handled the closure of the barracks before reopening it to house the Libyans.

On the other, it doesn't seem to have settled our disagreements about abortion, which, if anything, have become more intransigent and extreme.

The hearing Wednesday underscored the differences between baseball and the union, which the senators portrayed as an intransigent obstacle to a stronger drug policy, and contrasted baseball's narrowly drawn drug-testing regimen with the N.F.L.'s much more stringent one.