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intransigent
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    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.  (source)
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    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.  (source)
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    King Orrin, as Eragon expected, proved to be the most intransigent.†  (source)
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    ....An intransigent devotion to the pursuit of truth, Miss Taggart?†  (source)
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    Worse, any attempt at exposure would risk a backlash so severe that Peking would cry insult and outrage, and revert to suspicion and intransigence.†  (source)
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    Jackson took me back upstairs in the aged elevator, against whose curlicued cast-iron, unfriendly wall I leaned with my eyes closed in a state of stupefaction, unable to believe any of this or, even more intransigently, to accept it.†  (source)
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    We on the Committee have appealed to him — a favourable report from him would have been invaluable to our cause — but he is intransigent.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    Nevertheless, he could not help thinking of him as one of those fatal men possessed by a dangerous idealism and an intransigent purity that color everything they touch with disaster, especially the women who have the misfortune to fall in love with them.†  (source)
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    I'm unwilling to say that there was mutiny on board, but after a reasonable period of intransigence, Commander Farragut, like Christopher Columbus before him, asked for a grace period of just three days more.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    Like Jefferson, Adams believed in free trade in theory, but faced with British intransigence, he began losing hope of ever attaining such an agreement and cautioned Jefferson, "We must not, my friend, be the bubbles of our own liberal sentiments."†  (source)
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    General Dreedle could be as intransigent with anyone else when displeased as he was with Colonel Moodus.†  (source)
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