Sample sentences for INTRANSIGENT

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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

intransigence = stubbornness

...the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty...
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day

intransigent = stubborn

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

intransigence = stubbornness

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

intransigence = stubbornness

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

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