| For one, it is even more rigidly unable to cope with changes in the pool than an old industrial firm coping with an intransigent union. |
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| The couple were a Calvinist pastor of the most unrelenting kind and his equally intransigent spouse. |
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| Sleep disturbances and unipolar depression are such intransigent bedfellows that troubled sleep is considered a hallmark of the mood disorder. |
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| He was an intransigent fighter for the working class under the banner of internationalism for 30 years. |
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| The Miccosukees, theoretically, are more intransigent than the Muskogees in that they have never signed a treaty of peace with the United States. |
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| Although the tax cut helped ignite a boom on Wall Street, it didn't do much to change the tune of the city's intransigent legislators. |
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| At Camp David he had the opportunity to be a real President, but he has spent his life as a professional intransigent, and could not change. |
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| Whether they are hotheads or cool schemers, their intransigent speeches act as balm to their audience's wounds. |
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| They have at times had to withstand considerable provocation from intransigent bigots on the extreme wing of unionism. |
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| I am still proud to call myself Australian, although I am embarrassed that my government is proving so intransigent and stubborn. |
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| But it looks like I might have to do so because Sligo County Council are proving very intransigent on this issue. |
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| For this lifelong Londoner and intransigent radical, the city was always two-fold. |
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| She was subtly moving the debate on, from jokey repartee to smiling yet intransigent persistence. |
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| The majority remain serenely intransigent about taking on serious commitments while berating the minority for the paltriness of their sacrifice. |
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| It's easy to get all fired up and angry about such ostensible intransigent clericalism, but I think we need to know more about this situation. |
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| In line with a recent select committee report, he backs more reconciliation and greater court powers against intransigent parents. |
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| Millions of pounds of public money have been poured into campaigns designed to convince intransigent bottle-users of the error of their ways. |
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| Secondly, U.S. Secretary of State Kerry has recently pushed the Arab League towards flexing its intransigent position on borders. |
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| To many of his compatriots, this intransigent defender of French grandeur saved the honor of the nation during World War II and restored its institutions and status. |
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| Steel unions blame the company's intransigent management, the ease with which workers can be axed in the UK and the punitive strength of sterling for the latest cuts. |
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| Where management has been intransigent or arrogant, he has let his views be known to fellow investors or made certain that they have been aired in the financial press. |
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| Lake Ontario Waterkeeper's approach is unique in that it avoids that often intransigent debate altogether, maintaining that it's up to the city to find cleanup solutions. |
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| But this particular play with the dualities of public and private, viewer and viewed, in the intransigent space of a commercial gallery, fell short of an emancipatory vision. |
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| Groulx, often viewed today as an intransigent xenophobe, was admiring-and came away with subtle insights into the nature of Laurier's moderation. |
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| A long intransigent, uncompromising group, the Tamil Tigers are now groveling and begging for a ceasefire. |
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| Like the Bolsheviks in World War I, the Trotskyists' policy was one of intransigent defeatism towards all the imperialist bourgeoisies. |
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| In the former case, the United States has adopted an intransigent attitude which has thwarted the search for a balanced solution. |
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| My intransigent refusal to be bribed or terrorised has caused me to be dismissed for a second time. |
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| All in all, the impression had been conveyed that the grievor was intransigent in his attitude to class room safety. |
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| The rebels have grown more intransigent, and security on the ground is getting worse. |
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| At the same time, we make clear our intransigent opposition to the right-wing forces that mobilized against the referendum. |
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| Even formerly communist countries, which used to be intransigent on the right to free education, are introducing new fees. |
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| These are twelve strategic months in which companies can either change and compete in a frenetic and intransigent market, or remain immobile and sink into the stagnancy of a world view on its way to extinction. |
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| At the very least, it is the Commission's solemn duty to uphold Community legislation and not to be browbeaten in any way by powerful and intransigent Member States or arrogant political forces. |
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| In myriad ways and every day we act ourselves, we get out of each other's way, we mind our own business, we live and let live, we are strategically intransigent, we watch our backs. |
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| I watched intransigent communists once ready to go to extremes in the cause of freedom now go to extremes in the pursuit of more earthly things, yet I was silent. |
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| Ironically, it was this intransigent Aristotelianism that brought Cremonini to the attention of the Inquisition. |
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| It is thus that, in an intransigent urban jungle, and just like the rhinoceros, Nathalie Welch seems to be part of a rare and original species, one, unfortunately, approaching the brink of extinction. |
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| Frenchman Paul Guimard is among the writers to whom readers go back again and again, to experience the pleasure of the touch with the intransigent. |
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| The disputes were eventually quashed by Renault in a particularly intransigent way, and over 2,000 people lost their jobs. |
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| This occurred as the French militarily suppressed the most intransigent Hassane tribes in the north. |
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| The Liberals are incapable of change, incapable of realizing that it was this kind of behaviour that gave rise to the Bloc Québécois in reaction to intransigent federalism. |
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| Absolutizing the historic succession of the episcopate had placed the church in an intransigent position from which it would not budge. |
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| People say they have to overcome intransigent staff, endless obstacles and lengthy waits before their complaint is resolved. |
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| In these circumstances, the Council ultimately becomes intransigent and adopts a position that always implies: either you do what we say or the law will not be adopted. |
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| Their intransigent attitude is making the situation worse and is an insult to the millions who rely on daily deliveries. |
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| This supportive atmosphere and intermix of expertise often leads to an innovative technical solution to an intransigent problem or a novel idea for a successful new product. |
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| This led to strikes and smear campaigns by intransigent trade unions, whereupon the proposals were abandoned and replaced by a wishy-washy compromise. |
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| She was up against the most intransigent, ruthless Opposition imaginable. |
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| What we got was a lukewarm and wishy-washy response, even though we are entitled to expect the government to be intransigent, affirmative and vigilant on these principles. |
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| Makuei reiterated government's commitment to peace, but said the rebels' intransigent demands on a power sharing deal was slowing talks mediated by regional leaders. |
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| Morton, Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, thought that pro-life leaders had been too intransigent, too unwilling to compromise. |
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| It's a notion generally known as the anthropic principle, and it evokes intransigent opposition from those who condemn it and unflagging enthusiasm from those who espouse it. |
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| The exploitation of developments in bulk technology can often transform the performance of bulk storage hoppers that have an extensive history of intransigent discharge. |
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| He has remained intransigent in his opposition to the proposal. |
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| Stable jockey Jimmy Fortune has opted for Top Cop, but I'm not sure he will be at home on soft ground, so of the Balding pair Intransigent is much preferred. |
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