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stubborn — especially with regard to opinion or plans- The intransigent Andrew Jackson refused to change his policy even after the Supreme Court deemed in unconstitutional.
intransigent = stubborn
- Splitting the difference rewards the side with the most extreme and most intransigent position...Random thoughts by Thomas Sowell - Townhall.com -- http://www.townhall.com/print/print_story.php?sid=196035&loc=/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/05/02/196035.html (retrieved 06/29/06)
- We asked her to change her vote, but she remained intransigent.
- Punitive measures would only provoke intransigence and harden the existing situation.Bruce Bartlett -- What's Wrong With Trade Sanctions -- http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa064.html (retrieved 06/28/06)
- Despite her campaign promises, he quickly became one of the most intransigent opponents of fair trade policy.
- If the Lunar Authority persists in its intransigence?Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- ...the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty...Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
- He had been ill a long time—in the mind, as we now realized, reliving instances of his fantastic intransigence in the new light of his affliction and endeavoring to feel a sorrow for him which never, quite, came true.James Baldwin -- Notes of a Native Son
- Despite the gross note of calculation at the end (one rescues 432,000 human beings from slavery and it turns out to be a saving of expense), the proposal was a reasonable and statesmanlike one, and it is incredible that the intransigence of all but one of the states involved should have consigned it to defeat.Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- The board members wore immovable, intransigent expressions, the unblinking faces of soldiers in a Greek tragedy.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- Worse, any attempt at exposure would risk a backlash so severe that Peking would cry insult and outrage, and revert to suspicion and intransigence.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- The war years were wet years, and there were many people who blamed the strange intransigent weather on the firing of the great guns in France.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- King Orrin, as Eragon expected, proved to be the most intransigent.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- General Dreedle could be as intransigent with anyone else when displeased as he was with Colonel Moodus.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- We're in for a very difficult time, and I would hate to see you suffer the consequences of his intransigent attitude.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- We on the Committee have appealed to him — a favourable report from him would have been invaluable to our cause — but he is intransigent.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- His frustrations and defeats in political office—as Senator and President—were the inevitable result of this intransigence in ignoring the political facts of life.John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
- For others, the room represented the first time in their young lives that they were required to function as agents of vengeance, as factotums and enforcers of a strict, intransigent code of ethics.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- The authorities were equally intransigent: I could not be taken off quarry detail, I could not have a table and chair, and under no circumstances would I be able to go to Pretoria to use the law library.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
intransigence = stubbornness
intransigent = stubborn
intransigence = stubbornness
intransigence = stubbornness
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