"Between the intransigence of the Fed and the intransigence of the president, things are not looking good for stocks," he said.
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There's a cost to be paid for Democratic intransigence on the issue, just as there's a cost to be paid for intransigence on immigration and the border wall.
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A symbol of Third World intransigence against First World domination.
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That tension is present in "The Intransigence of Love," too.
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If and when reform fails, they can blame Democrats' intransigence.
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Pressure is growing on Mr Khamenei to justify his intransigence.
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There is a real human cost to the NBAA's intransigence.
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"Largely because of the intransigence of Republican leadership," he said.
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May's intransigence on Chequers frustrates her allies and enemies alike.
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So the chance to make him the face of G.O.P. intransigence on gun control, even when he isn't actually the face of intransigence at the moment, is an opportunity too important to be missed.
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"We are living in times of intolerance and intransigence," she said.
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They're creating space for others to make money off their intransigence.
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Mr Kaczynski's worldview explains Law and Justice's intransigence and authoritarian leanings.
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But North Korean intransigence is not a result of China's actions.
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However, intransigence by the CFTC will all but ensure that result.
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Susan Collins (R-ME) became even more brash in their intransigence.
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Sometimes I think Gulf Labor has undermined itself through its intransigence.
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This Republican intransigence is a sign of panic, not of power.
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Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, seemed flummoxed by Lewandowski's intransigence.
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And reason 3 is just dispiriting—why reward Republicans for their intransigence?
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Something of the old intransigence survives, along with resentment of bullying elites.
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Peace talks have flopped, in large part because of Mr Assad's intransigence.
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Obamacare remains, thanks to in the intransigence of his own party. NATO?
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Congressional intransigence on this issue by the Republican party defies common sense.
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To a large degree, his unwillingness to bend, his intransigence are willed.
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Obama has done all of this in the face of Republican intransigence.
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The pharmaceutical industry's intransigence has begun to irk even staunch Republican allies.
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But Mr. Jones's intransigence did not stop his ascent within the union.
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It's a recipe for intransigence, dysfunction and injustice on a mass scale.
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But many blame Mr Haftar's intransigence for the lack of progress towards peace.
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Fortunately, voters are seeing this intransigence for what it is: overtly partisan obstruction.
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But that subtle approach has not worked, particularly against the Trump administration's intransigence.
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A union official said a school board's intransigence could require a violent response.
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In the face of Republican intransigence, he still managed to get things done.
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Instead of confronting the president over his intransigence, Republican leaders fell in line.
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Given the longstanding intransigence of the Kim family regime, optimism is hardly warranted.
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But North Korea broke them off after a day, accusing America of intransigence.
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Both Bannon and Sessions' intransigence infuriated committee members, and their frustration has sound basis.
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IN THE annals of political intransigence, few beat Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
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Meanwhile, Huawei's lawsuit is a weak strategy for confronting American intransigence on its cybersecurity.
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Blaming Democrats for their intransigence would be a non-starter in such a situation.
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State efforts have speeded up in response to the intransigence of the Trump administration.
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Speck's book backs up the intransigence of planning engineers by quoting one: Charles Marohn.
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Never again should we allow the American people to fall prey to Washington's intransigence.
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But thousands of jobs could have been saved if not for "B4 lender" intransigence.
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The risk inherent in it was that military superiority would lead to diplomatic intransigence.
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The festival's dispute with Netflix has provoked heated accusations of cultural imperialism and intransigence.
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Members of Congress cannot blame the absence of information solely on the President's intransigence.
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By doing so, they might blunt some of the intransigence that many Latinos see.
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He unwittingly helped strengthen the Israeli right and Palestinian intransigence, further distancing the two sides.
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He contends that the Palestinians "chose intransigence over independence in 21967, 21970, 19183 and 21918".
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All too often, when faced with Mr Brown's intransigence, he failed to stand by them.
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A true conservative can easily see that the Freedom Caucus's intransigence makes America more liberal.
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In his office, he told me that his intransigence was a matter of historical necessity.
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But rumors of our righteous certainty, our "retrograde intransigence," are likely to remain greatly exaggerated.
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Intransigence has clogged the gears in Baghdad, Nujaifi insists, so Washington needs to step in.
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Political intransigence makes for great television, but it makes for a dysfunctional nation as well.
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He is a man in the Achebean tradition, whose principled intransigence brings about his destruction.
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Frustrated by Spanish intransigence, Jay was delighted when Congress reassigned him to the peace talks.
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The White House and its allies made another push on Tuesday to highlight Republican intransigence.
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It is feeding partisanship's rancor and intransigence, as voters organize around opposing the other side.
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At what point does fortitude (all those chapters, drawings, songs) pass into life-destroying intransigence?
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But compared with the intransigence of human bias, it does look a great deal simpler.
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These results are likely to make it more difficult for Mrs Lam to justify intransigence.
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A party that maintains its intransigence and denialism will bleed away the next generation's voters.
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Divorce rates are rising in Ghana and one of the reasons is the intransigence of men.
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But the gambit in "The Intransigence of Love" is one of the show's best to date.
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Seven years ago, when climate talks in Copenhagen crashed and burned, Chinese intransigence was widely blamed.
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But after years of intransigence from senior Army generals, he turned to forcing change through legislation.
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But they understand that the intransigence of their own model is now the opposite of ours.
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Given that intransigence it really will be up to the courts to bring the enforcement stick.
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Generation Z is informed, impatient and angry at what they see as intransigence on the right.
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He likes to say that being as weak as he is, intransigence is his only weapon.
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And Democrats will avoid the risk of a shift in blame to them for their intransigence.
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Instead, the Arab states supported their intransigence and invaded Israel at the moment of its birth.
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Despite the recent polling, the DUP has every reason to believe intransigence is its best reward.
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Greek intransigence prevented the Macedonians from joining NATO or starting negotiations to join the European Union.
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At Senate luncheons on Wednesday and Thursday, Republican lawmakers vented about Mr. Kasich's intransigence, calling it selfishness.
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The intransigence of G7 leaders may have a bigger consequence than risking a slowdown in Japan's economy.
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In recent years American conservatism became proudly doctrinaire, with Republicans boasting of their ideological purity and intransigence.
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It's more than just congressional intransigence and polarization that led liberals to move beyond big new programs.
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Having pursued Poland for two years, it could hardly give up in the face of PiS's intransigence.
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Frustration within the Socialists' ranks at Sanchez's intransigence prompted half its leadership to step down this week.
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But at the same time, her intransigence and her difficulties in that film made us like her.
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The UN and its ability to act against Syria is being cynically stymied by continuous Russian intransigence.
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The second of these two wars, incidentally, was originally billed as the natural outgrowth of Iraq's intransigence.
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Salvini criticized Di Maio's intransigence and has said the prime minister should come from the center-right.
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What's worse is we are not even trying – due to a combination of incompetence and bureaucratic intransigence.
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By December 2016 Obama administration officials had grown frustrated with Netanyahu's ongoing intransigence on the settlement issue.
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Saturday's concert, billed (eight months late) as Mr. Cale's "75th Birthday Celebration," offered no nostalgia, only intransigence.
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And indeed, that intransigence is a serious and ongoing problem for a GOP determined to govern alone.
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But there are other approaches to address this and other examples of intransigence by the Trump administration.
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The intransigence of Mr. Lighthizer and other trade hard-liners in the Trump administration must be challenged.
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She met with incoming Democrats on Tuesday, acknowledging their "idealism, integrity and imagination" but warning against intransigence.
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Some Russia observers argue that this pattern of failure is a result of Russian intransigence and revisionism.
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Visitors to Tokyo report a mood of exasperation with what many Japanese perceive as South Korean intransigence.
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In the face of lies and intransigence backed by the threat of extralegal violence, Democrats ... caved again.
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Go deeper: Deadly Iran gasoline protests: Khamenei blames foreign enemies Rouhani's UN address reflects Iran's growing intransigence
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House Democrats could have gone to court months before they did to fight the Trump administration's intransigence.
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Erdogan has not helped his case by doubling down on his intransigence against the U.S., analysts say.
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Ms. Rivas has refused to agree to a payment, hoping her intransigence will delay the government's plans.
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Coats' intransigence follows a familiar pattern of the NSA promising transparency and then reneging on those promises.
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But investors said making grievances known publicly can sometimes accelerate changes - especially when faced with management intransigence.
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Many have criticized Republicans' intransigence and their nearly uniform backing of Trump as some kind of personality flaw.
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I firmly believe that part of the current intransigence is because those gun homicides disproportionately affect poor minorities.
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Some ministers spelt out the difference between concessions granted by Canada and what they said was U.S. intransigence.
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The irony is that the IMF, for all its current intransigence, is the more forgiving of Greece's creditors.
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"There's not momentum at this point and it's because of the intransigence of the Tuesday Group," Needham said.
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And if Iran fails to live up to its commitments, Congress could respond to its intransigence with penalties.
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That wasn't to be, in large part because of the intransigence of some of those tea party members.
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"This happened because of the intransigence of the Tuesday Group, which refuses to get to yes," Needham said.
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Whoever the next Democratic president is, he or she will need a strategy for dealing with Republican intransigence.
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The sad thing is that in a time of national intransigence, gridlock and hyper-partisanship, effectiveness is radical.
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But political intransigence and ideological division over the issue have meant the bill is yet to be implemented.
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The dangerous intransigence of the hardest Brexiteers has changed my calculation, and may change that of many others.
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The Republican leader's intransigence is only likely to harden as the calendar inches closer to the 2020 election.
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Adams and McGuinness were the visible face of the republican movement and personified its intransigence to British authorities.
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But murkiness in this investigation created by Saudi intransigence and at times obfuscation defies a simple binary analysis.
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Indeed, the administration expanded executive privilege because of congressional intransigence and gave to it increased surveillance and police powers.
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This bias towards stability can enrage the party's left flank, whose members have a grudging respect for Republican intransigence.
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The result of this foaming intransigence was that Mrs May had no choice but to look elsewhere for compromise.
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Judges across the state have long complained about the board's intransigence, and recently some have begun to take action.
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They had for years faced total Republican intransigence on any bill that might be of political value to Obama.
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"Yes," Inslee said, "by abolishing the filibuster"—a reference to the GOP's intransigence on climate issues in the Senate.
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The Republican intransigence on guns stems from fear of a powerful gun lobby led by the National Rifle Association.
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The president's intransigence on tariffs make[s] it difficult to believe that we'll get any help from worldwide growth.
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In their more recent letter, federal officials seem exasperated by local intransigence, adding that their pleas repeatedly went unacknowledged.
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In light of the GOP's intransigence lately, it may seem that Democrats are powerless to do any of this.
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The government has shown no intention of substantial policy change, or even a skerrick of shame over its intransigence.
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"Our efforts at compromise have instead been met with a brick wall of intransigence," Ms. Sturgeon said on Monday.
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Until now, Mr Vizcarra has tried to deal with congressional intransigence by submitting his government to votes of confidence.
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Rather than dialogue and compromise, the separatists appear to desire intolerance and intransigence — maybe even a dose of violence.
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As desperation rises, so does the intransigence of Venezuela's "Bolivarian" regime, whose policies have ruined the economy and sabotaged democracy.
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The third, related, example is repeated attacks on Brussels for an ideological intransigence that pushes towards a no-deal Brexit.
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For all its intransigence, the DUP knows it would be disastrous, as it would imply a hard border in Ireland.
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The obstacle is not the stubbornness of Mrs May, the intransigence of the EU or the obstreperousness of the French.
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It is a far cry from Ms Fernández's flat refusal to reward the holdouts in any way for their intransigence.
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France has signaled its willingness to pressure Iran, and Britain could be the key to overcoming German intransigence, he notes.
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Except that one might ask … when exactly have conservative Catholics really shown a perfect intransigence against any and all change?
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Or maybe they decided that intransigence was not good business strategy given its flagging SAT flagship and today's political climate.
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American and French peace initiatives have been blocked by the intransigence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government.
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The House just passed bipartisan legislation to reopen the government, and Republican senators are expressing frustration with the President's intransigence.
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Barrera's efforts were ignored," Mr. Oliva wrote, adding, "These efforts were met by the government with stonewalling, indifference and intransigence.
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Like the Blue Water bill, cost, along with VA intransigence appears to be the prohibitive factor in enacting these measures.
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Mr. Zuma eventually paid the government the $650,000 — about 7.8 million rand — but his intransigence led to further legal problems.
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Their willful blindness and intransigence will empower President Trump, as he proceeds to implement the "Make America Great Again" agenda.
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It is the second time in three years that his intransigence has blocked the formation of a government of the left.
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The reprieve may end within a matter of weeks, however, amid continuing Russian intransigence over acknowledging the scale of the scheme.
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Despite the Pentagon's intransigence, the White House hopes to reduce the inmate population of 107 significantly over the next few months.
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They lie at the heart of Israelis' and Palestinians' rival histories, and add the intransigence of religion to a nationalist conflict.
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Mr Assad's increasing intransigence appears to have riled Mr Putin, who is looking for a peace deal that serves Russia's interests.
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Local intransigence is significant here: White Southerners are still often reluctant to admit the scale of their ancestors' complicity in slavery.
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For decades, officials from other countries habitually pointed to America's insistence on isolating Cuba as an emblem of post-colonial intransigence.
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However, the tragedy here is Watson's intransigence in light of the scientific developments of the late 20th and early 21st century.
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With partisan rancor and Washington intransigence, few people believe Republicans and Democrats will agree on a big infrastructure bill anytime soon.
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He had bumped up against the intransigence of Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled legislature and the raids and bans of the Trump administration.
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And in France, a dispute between Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival has sparked heated accusations of cultural imperialism and intransigence.
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Earlier this month Fox put the odds of a 'no deal' Brexit at 60-40, blaming "intransigence" on the EU's part.
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She has succeeded in meeting the constitutional duty of the House while avoiding the reality of Republican intransigence in the Senate.
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We saw under Obama the kind of intransigence the Republican Party is likely to return to in the next Democratic administration.
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In this role, he has had to deal with the apathy of decision-makers and the intransigence of social media companies.
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The tie-dyed crowd see the department's intransigence as a rejection of their values, in favour of events organised by corporations.
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Maybe we laugh, too: at human foolishness, at human intransigence, at how people, like furniture, fade and scuff, but still endure.
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One symbol of that intransigence was the powerful Kentucky coach, Adolph Rupp, whose all-white teams had won four national championships.
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As Trump takes office, the song's forgotten 19th-century origins celebrating intransigence, white nationalism and populism are more relevant than ever before.
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Given the intransigence of both sides, even Mr. Trudeau's top officials are downplaying the idea that the conversation will end the battle.
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If there is a godfather of current Republican intransigence, it is William Kristol, the conservative strategist and editor of The Weekly Standard.
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The program will include tributes both spoken and played, which means you can expect stories of intransigence, contrarianism and cryptic, counterintuitive wisdom.
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Europe is much keener on keeping the Iran deal in place, and Trump's intransigence could cause irreparable harm to the transatlantic relations.
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That PR disaster, which was compounded when United's boss initially blamed the customer for his intransigence, forced it into damage-control mode.
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Each time the world sees how its intransigence and thuggishness is at odds with the image of harmony it wants to project.
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The intransigence of the last three years must be left behind or else we are destined for a WTO exit in October.
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"There's not momentum at this point and it's because of the intransigence of the Tuesday Group," Needham told reporters on the call.
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He believes Iranian intransigence will torpedo a meeting of oil producers in Doha on Sunday aimed at capping production at January levels.
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Merkel's intransigence on immigration could put her own chancellorship, the EU and the German economy at risk from populists, nationalists, and rightists.
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Washington's intransigence could easily have served as cover for others unenthusiastic about climate policy, such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia, to bolt.
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The public is, and will continue to grow, impatient with their intransigence and indifference to the harm that their technology is yielding.
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But the meetings collapsed, owing first to Houthi intransigence and then to Hadi's resistance to a U.N. road map to the negotiations.
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Pretending that Jerusalem was not Israel's capital did not elicit any flexibility in Ramallah, but only the same old intransigence and prejudice.
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It seems there has been some movement of late on this but there is still way too much intransigence on this issue.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE have all taken serious hits for their intransigence.
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Qatar's intransigence is out in the open for all to see, as the Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ) has been arguing through documentation.
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We got none of the explanation for Apple's direction-shifting that Jobs — for all his famous intransigence — was always keen to offer.
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Humphrey devised strategies to neutralize the southern intransigence toward the bill, while Johnson cajoled reluctant members of the GOP to support it.
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Lauren (Aya Cash, a star of "You're the Worst" on FXX) is more polished but finds Sydney's ethical intransigence just as mystifying.
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Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, whose Judiciary Committee is facing the brunt of the administration's intransigence, appears to be losing patience.
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Faced with Republican intransigence in Congress, President Barack Obama chose to confront the climate threat through executive action during his second term.
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In recent weeks, the trade war seemed likely to become something of a frozen conflict, with signs of intransigence on both sides.
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"They view us as a table of diplomats doing nothing, our hands tied behind our backs, beholden to Russian intransigence," he said.
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It has magnified Palestinian intransigence, while draining American taxpayer dollars, propping up a corrupt Palestinian Authority without demanding anything substantial of it.
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Many also feel angry that decades of political intransigence on climate change has forced them to make such a calculation at all.
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"It is only when the costs of perpetual intransigence are perceived as greater than the costs of settlement that anyone moves," he added.
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On the federal level cybersecurity and privacy regulations have been beaten back because of a one-two punch of lobbying and ideological intransigence.
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In 2009 China's intransigence was one of the main reasons why UN-led climate-change talks in Copenhagen failed to make much progress.
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With the Statue of Liberty rising in the distance — a beacon of extroverted, all-embracing spiritual generosity — "Cabin" suggests an inward-turning intransigence.
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The learned helplessness of too many Democrats in the face of Republican intransigence is one reason we've ended up in this awful place.
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Like many issues in American communities these days, the discussion over monuments and memorials is fraught with complexity and intransigence on all sides.
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Mr. Abdeslam initially maintained his intransigence as the trial began, refusing to stand or to confirm his name when asked by the court.
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Hence a second goal that became clear this week: to heap the blame for forcing a no-deal Brexit on intransigence in Brussels.
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On one side was Mr. Kerry, venting years of frustration on behalf of President Obama and himself at what they consider Israeli intransigence.
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Does the industry want someone other than Pruitt to craft a replacement, or for EPA intransigence to spur more robust solutions from Congress?
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He knows how to push a Republican president's priorities past bureaucratic intransigence, as he skillfully did for Ronald Reagan and both George Bushes.
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Two senators from Democratic-leaning states, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Susan Collins of Maine, have already expressed misgivings over their leaders' intransigence.
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For members of civil society, the intransigence is a real problem that threatens to undermine the legitimacy of all types of international treaties.
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It's clear they were trying to hamper his every move, but every potential explanation for their intransigence — racial, political, social, even cultural — falls short.
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One way they're doing this is by taking advantage of our intransigence on immigration policy and then welcoming foreign-born founders to their shores.
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He was told that his intransigence would lead to many deaths if health reform failed, as well as the destruction of the Clinton presidency.
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Would you really choose Spain or Belgium (no government), Italy (ineptitude), Greece (incompetence), or Israel (extremist intransigence) over the clarity and simplicity of Westminster?
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While youth is classically a time of intransigence, as we grow older we understand that we cannot get our way 22019% of the time.
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Based on Ryan and McConnell's intransigence so far, it's hard to see how Congress would take forceful action to protect Mueller under their leadership.
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But his efforts to get the company that ran the processing plant to remedy the pollution were met with intransigence and apathy, he says.
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Under Richards, Planned Parenthood seemed to understand this intransigence for what it is, and it navigated political life in the defensive position with skill.
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On Wednesday, Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, expressed frustration with the pace of talks and suggested intransigence on the part of the European Union.
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Incredibly, after they refused to even listen as the commander in chief explained his reasoning, they proceeded to blame Trump for their own intransigence.
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But just like every American president over the last half-century, Mr. Obama was beaten by the intransigence of both Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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President Trump now has 144 vacancies to fill on the federal bench, many as a direct result of Republican intransigence during the Obama era.
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Further North Korean intransigence will force the American hand and make it consider pushing for an independent nuclear deterrent for South Korea and Japan.
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In the nineteen-sixties, the civil-rights movement and the legislation that resulted from it occurred in spite of the intransigence of political parties.
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" The U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was "illegal" and the "current stalemate" resulted "from the intransigence of Israeli positions.
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One more thing: President Trump cancelled his trip to Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum, citing the "Democrats intransigence" on border security.
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That intransigence has prompted growing calls for an impeachment inquiry on Capitol Hill, but has also slowly lost the attention of the wider public.
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Arab coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said Griffiths was trying to find political solutions amid Houthi "intransigence over handing over Hodeidah city and port".
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But the courthouse protest planned for Monday could raise tensions and intransigence all over again, with at least 200 people expected, according to one organizer.
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In 2002, the International Fencing Federation was only able to add more events for women by agreeing to rotate others, because of the IOC's intransigence.
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The episode of the week for January 6 through January 12 is "The Intransigence of Love," the fifth season premiere of FXX's You're the Worst.
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British ministers stepped up their warnings that European intransigence could see Britain crashing out of the EU without a deal when it leaves in March.
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Efforts to curb gun violence remain on the White House agenda, though executive actions may be all that the president can manage, given congressional intransigence.
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There is darkness, there is light, there is tragedy, there is redemption, there is intransigence, there is innovation, there is hate, and there is love.
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It is her intransigence, her pandering to hardline Brexiteers and her refusal to compromise on her red lines that have made Britain a laughing-stock.
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A combination of Democratic intransigence and extremism provides Trump the perfect opportunity to translate the Republican Party's longstanding commitment to protect the unborn into reality.
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Long before the U.S. withdrawal from TPP, the agreement between Brussels and Tokyo was bogged down by, among other things, European intransigence on data flows.
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I do find it reprehensible that they are sincere about their intransigence and willfully stand by this very backward stance, but I don't hate them.
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By leading the GOP intransigence in this matter, Grassley is losing the reasonable, non- ideological veneer that has served him so well for so long.
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Yet somehow there was no sense of urgency, and no actual changes were made, in large part due to the intransigence of Russia and China.
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Much has been made of the extremism and intransigence displayed by the Freedom Caucus, which occupies the far-right wing of the far-right GOP.
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"It boils down to mutual intransigence between the U.S. and China," said Rory Medcalf, head of the National Security College at the Australian National University.
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Republican intransigence must be explained at least in part by race, they figure — a refusal to accept the legitimacy of the first African-American president.
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The intransigence by the House Freedom Caucus came as Republican leaders raced against a Friday deadline for pushing a short-term spending bill through Congress.
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The evening before, top officials from his administration were still haggling to try and reach an agreement, despite indications of intransigence from the North Koreans.
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In the meantime, roads, bridges and train tracks have gotten steadily older while proposals for new projects are delayed by political intransigence and legal delays.
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What if the players, paralyzed by the intransigence of their employers, could eliminate those middlemen and take control of the fruits of their own talents?
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For roughly the first half of "The Intransigence of Love," none of the characters from You're the Worst appears onscreen, outside of the opening credits sequence.
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"Syria has engaged in a calculated campaign of intransigence and obfuscation, of deception, and of defiance," Kenneth Ward, America's representative to the OPCW, said in July.
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French intransigence means Macedonia's government will find it harder to win a tricky autumn referendum on the deal it recently struck with Greece to rename itself.
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Thorburn and Henry have been specifically called out for their intransigence in the final report issued by the retired judge who ran the inquiry, Kenneth Hayne.
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Since the Security Council, hamstrung largely by Russian intransigence, has proven itself incapable of acting in a responsible way in Syria, other collective bodies should act.
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With so much of the world tied deeply into the dollar-denominated US financial system, it does not appear there could be anyway around Trump's intransigence.
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On Thursday, the former Indiana congressman continued to cast blame on the Democratic leaders, whom he accused of intransigence as the shutdown entered its 20th day.
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But more typically, failures stem from a mismatch between prison attitudes toward authority and behavior suited to the workplace, where threats and intransigence won't cut it.
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On Thursday the NOC blamed the "intransigence" of the Petroleum Facilities Guards in blocking the shipment for the further damage it suffered from the latest attack.
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Critics accused the Hollande administration of intransigence over Assad's future, although it later said Assad would have to leave only once a transition process was complete.
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Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the "sheer intransigence" of the British government over Brexit could lead to a second referendum on independence.
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That intransigence hit new heights in recent months, as the White House has defied congressional subpoenas and has said that Democrats will "never" see his returns.
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"Give him credit for his honest enmity, his honest hatred and intransigence," said Margarita Simonyan, the editor in chief of the Kremlin-funded RT news network.
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"I deplore Netflix's attitude in this affair, which showed total intransigence and refusing to understand and accept how the French cultural exception works," Mr. Tardieu added.
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All presidents must make hard choices about security, and all administrations have faced the intransigence or incompetence of foreign governments when it comes to fighting terrorism.
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Lawmakers are particularly disturbed by the government's intransigence on a sore point with the unions: the plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
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Warner said he had only faced "intransigence and aggression" from the HCA in his bid to find a solution to the financial challenges facing the sport.
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On Sunday, voters rebuked the government for its intransigence, widely favoring candidates running against the establishment and who, in some cases, explicitly endorsed the demonstrators' demands.
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As with other recent bombings in Turkey, Saturday night's deadly terrorist strikes in Istanbul will not convince European leaders to accommodate the intransigence of the Turkish government.
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Brexiteer buffoonery or European intransigence could kill the talks; the FAZ report claims that Mr Juncker's "entourage" puts the chances of a deal at less than 50%.
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First, he defines the intransigence of the #NeverTrump right as a threat to Republican victory, and the idea of a third-party candidacy as a suicide mission.
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Here, Clinton's intransigence led to the failure of UN Special Envoy Kofi Annan's cease fire efforts in the spring of 220006, helping prolong the Syria's civil war.
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It is time for a firm policy that no longer tolerates Tehran's malign regional intransigence and its suppression of millions of Iranians aspiring for change in Iran.
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The stakes are high in Venezuela and the intransigence of the regime will test the resolve of Guaido, the U.S. and the Latin democracies militating for change.
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Even though Schumer threatened to block Bush's nominees in his last year in office, intransigence will be more damaging in the face of a real nominating choice.
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Mr. Ahmed has also said Houthi intransigence blocked progress in the talks, leading the Houthis to accuse him of working on behalf of the Saudi-led coalition.
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But it is only the most glaring example of unreasonable intransigence by lawmakers who have turned the process of appointing senior federal officials into a political game.
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" Bannon was preoccupied by Alling's remark about the Challenger, and her general intransigence, saying over and over, "I am going to ram it down her fucking throat.
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It's a blow to those who rely on him to help battle the seeming intransigence of the Tunisian government to open up a dialogue with these families.
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When push comes to shove, the fear of primaries, the allure of cable news requests, the hope that political intransigence will spark online fundraising, that all abates.
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I fear that the anger, hostility, lack of dignity and intransigence of people on both sides of the issue — and especially Donald Trump — will only become worse.
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In the briefing, Wang again slammed Washington for intransigence and intentionally hyping up the idea that the United States is the real victim in their trade dispute.
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He sees a current political and legislative climate marked by a certain inflexibility and intransigence that is not conducive to compromise and ends with little being accomplished.
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"Unfortunately, DOJ/FBI's intransigence with respect to the August 24 subpoenas is part of a broader pattern of behavior that can no longer be tolerated," Nunes wrote.
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But, Mr. Silliman wrote, "the city's intransigence does not create a favorable environment" for negotiations of a franchise renewal, which could begin as soon as next summer.
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Few in power had much sympathy for Pullman's intransigence, but fewer still were willing to even implicitly question the inviolability of property rights by forcing his hand.
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Dish's patience, or possibly intransigence, with the use of its hoards of spectrum helped it become the government's top choice to be the nation's new number four carrier.
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The NCAA's intransigence is increasingly out of touch, and its perceived power moves, like snubbing USC and penalizing Arizona in this year's bracket, will only make matters worse.
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Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in a newspaper article on Tuesday that the "sheer intransigence" of the British government over Brexit could lead to a second referendum.
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For its part, government officials say they have been increasingly frustrated by the intransigence of Patel and his team to address its demands and engage in constructive dialogue.
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The intransigence and the certitude that may now cause her to be remembered as an enemy of freedom are the same qualities that served her well in captivity.
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The U.S. has traditionally employed soft, diplomatic language in such reports to avoid upsetting the Jewish nation, but has grown impatient with what diplomats see as Israel's intransigence.
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President Trump also called out congressional Democrats for their intransigence in moving judicial and administration nominees and stood firm against Iran's threats of genocide against the Jewish people.
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"Dig," a ghostly waltz, is where introspection can carry her: from banjo picking to distant roaring electric guitars to glimmering thumb-piano plinks, from isolation to sweet intransigence.
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Demanding upfront sentencing reductions may feel righteous, but in the face of our current political intransigence it will likely do little to help those serving unnecessarily long sentences.
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And most of the federal workers who are idled by Pelosi's intransigence are the part of the Democratic coalition who would prefer a paycheck to an unpaid vacation.
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The record of Republican intransigence in the Obama years also suggests that voters pay far less attention to the legislative process than Washington insiders would like to believe.
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Whether these strategic decisions were because of hubris-driven ideology about democratizing the Middle East, bureaucratic intransigence, or just plain ignorance will be debated by scholars for decades.
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Given the admiral's long record of service and his reputation for candor, we should not leap to the conclusion that one of his reasons is the President's intransigence.
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But that level of political intransigence made Wall Street worried about the ability of politicians to agree on something potentially much more serious: raising the US debt ceiling.
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And when Trump acquiesces in Russia's interference in U.S. elections, as seems to have happened, Putin wins, and why would we wish to reward him for his intransigence?
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In the face of federal intransigence, Texas and some other states are moving forward on clean energy, but states alone cannot secure a safe climate without national leadership.
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No, the NFL's intransigence was all about avoiding a ruling, and therefore a precedent, that said no, Mr. Commissioner, you actually can't just do whatever the hell you want.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The "sheer intransigence" of the British government over Brexit could lead to a second Scottish independence referendum, the head of the devolved Scottish government said on Tuesday.
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"We always knew it would come to this when Brussels was faced with a situation of its own intransigence," Sammy Wilson of the Democratic Unionist Party said on Twitter.
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Under Mr Trump, America has pursued a policy of "maximum pressure" on the North, including threats to rain "fire and fury" on it should it persist in its intransigence.
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The church was sending a message: Over are the days of opulence and intransigence at the Holy See; enter the era of Francis, and a new, more open Catholicism.
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British trade minister Liam Fox said "intransigence" from the European Commission was pushing Britain towards a no-deal Brexit, in an interview published on Saturday by the Sunday Times.
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Israel's policy in the West Bank, along with its intransigence, together with Egypt, over any significant concessions to the people of Gaza could well lead to another bloody escalation.
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But we talked politics, too — especially the landscape of intransigence that Mr. Obama encountered, which contrasts sharply with the wheeling-and-dealing give-and-take of L.B.J.'s era.
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In the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, Democrats pointed to the GOP's reluctance to closing the terror gap as a sign of the party's intransigence on gun policy.
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Interestingly, when asked how he might get his agenda passed given the intransigence of the Republican Party, he defaulted to something not too different from his polar-opposite Sanders.
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We attended the talks in Rambouillet, France where we witnessed the good faith efforts of the Kosovars to reach an accord and the intransigence of the Former Yugoslav negotiators.
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"Unfortunately, DOJ/FBI's intransigence with respect to the August 24 subpoenas is part of a broader pattern of behavior that can no longer be tolerated," Nunes wrote last week.
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Washington (CNN)A new, bipartisan investigation into the consequences of the last three government shutdowns reveals that the cost of political intransigence was roughly $2000 billion to US taxpayers.
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It would mean, rather than begging Republicans for assent or small scraps of policy assistance, doing everything possible to publicize their intransigence and make it core to their identity.
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While some conservatives were unhappy that Mr. Trump had, in their view, gone too far, Republican officials focused their ire on the Democrats for what they considered their intransigence.
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The idea that the time-freezing technology seems a more realistic solution than the basic changes in social policy to me reflects a deep intransigence in thinking about these matters.
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S. TRADE TENSIONS In the briefing, Wang again slammed Washington for intransigence and intentionally hyping up the idea that the United States is the real victim in their trade dispute.
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But it triggered a three-year campaign that steadily built resistance against the Conservative government's cuts to research funding, its silencing of government scientists, and its intransigence on climate policy.
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S. TRADE TENSIONS In the briefing, Wang again slammed Washington for intransigence and intentionally hyping up the idea that the United States is the real victim in their trade dispute.
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James Nixon, head of Macro Forecasting for EMEA Oxford Economics, told CNBC that it was "difficult" to know who was to blame for the current intransigence between creditors and Greece.
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These episodes of ill-fated intransigence define the Obama-era GOP, and they've laid the predicate for Trump to take over the party by promising to be a better fighter.
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Across the political spectrum, the Chancellor's alleged intransigence will be blamed for fuelling the rise of the xenophobic right and a polarization and instability in politics hitherto unknown in Germany.
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The widening gulf in democratic values — combined with Mr. Erdogan's deepening intransigence — has now run up against provisions in the deal that would allow Turks visa-free travel to Europe.
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Stoked by increasingly vocal separatist politicians, Madrid's intransigence prompted many Catalans to consider a vote for independence that would have attracted far fewer adherents as recently as a decade ago.
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What mystifies this registered independent, and proud American, about GOP intransigence is that such infrastructure investment yields large returns and that such investment is part of the GOP's historical DNA.
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The problem is not just their own intransigence but the eagerness of others, in positions of authority, to exploit the minor ruckus and crank it up into a national dispute.
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Mr. Kirk, who offered a striking image as he condemned his colleagues' intransigence with Judge Garland at his side, was not the only Republican to criticize his party on Tuesday.
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But he resigned in frustration that August, citing the intransigence of both sides in a conflict that had convulsed and reshaped the region and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Trump's intransigence will force civil servants to choose between two masters—serving the public by rigorously enforcing the lease's terms or enriching the president by yielding to the president's sons.
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Initiated as a safety measure in 1980 after a pedestrian was killed by a piece of falling terra cotta, the sidewalk shed has become a loathed symbol of urban intransigence.
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We have abundant evidence that neither Moscow nor Beijing will abandon Pyongyang or support our demands and that our intransigence and loose talk about limited war merely provokes further resistance.
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"What's even more frustrating than President Trump's intransigence is the way he seems amenable to these compromises before completely switching positions and backing off," he said on the Senate floor.
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Obviously, everything Democrats are dealing with right now, in terms of strategy and tactics, has to do with getting something done in the face of total intransigence from the other party.
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Yet it's also a problem that's not being helped by the general intransigence and lack of transparency from the social media companies that control the infrastructure being used to spread disinformation.
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For all his intransigence on settling for anything less than NFL quarterback in football, Tebow made it abundantly clear on Tuesday that he is exceedingly flexible when it comes to baseball.
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This intransigence notwithstanding, the rule largely has proven to be a success, with prescribers' market share falling from nearly 69 percent to roughly 40 percent in the decade after its enactment.
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So psychology has a huge part to play in understanding and resolving disputes, and getting the parties to shift their positions from a degree of intransigence to being collaborative, he added.
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The United States is right to be frustrated at the protracted intransigence of the South Sudanese elites who have continued this war, and at the limitations of the regional peace process.
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Sure, passage of new regulations would be a welcome change from our political intransigence and lack of response to our ongoing epidemic of gun violence and mass shootings in this country.
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If only other senators would put the country's interests above their political future, we might return to a functioning polity where civility and problem-solving take precedence over invective and intransigence.
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In the weeks ahead, the combination of underestimating North Korean intransigence and overestimating China's influence will expose the Trump administration's inability to stop North Korea's nuclear program and could escalate tensions.
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While the sanctions have made life more difficult for Sudanese, a sanction-free government of Sudan would reap the benefits of intransigence, granting its murderous leaders legitimacy they do not deserve.
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The scope for failure -- for the flat and blunt rejection of this open and generous offer of talk and legitimization, or its slow demise through intransigence and continued violence -- is large.
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Their intransigence offered a reminder that while Democrats in the House now have the duty of oversight after the midterm elections, making effective use of their power is far from easy.
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"The military intervention and the crisis that Jammeh's intransigence has caused will undoubtedly hit tourism – the country's most important source of foreign revenue − for at least the next two years," said Smith.
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She says she opposes a right-wing government, but her supporters say she is more pragmatic than Sanchez whose intransigence they blame for the party's slump in local government elections this month.
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Opposition backers including the United States had said the opposition should attend talks to expose the regime's intransigence or somehow embarrass it, but some Syrians were skeptical that the regime really cared.
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While I agree with most of the things they stand for, their intransigence and plain old "bull headedness" is keeping us from making progress away from the liberal socialism that ObamaCare represents.
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Now finally realizing how polarized the nation had become, he quickly left for Richmond, Virginia, where he publicly denounced the Peace Convention he had organized as a failure thanks to northern intransigence.
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The notion that Democrats should temper expectations might be a responsible strategy, too, given the intransigence Obama faced from congressional Republicans and that there likely will be a divided government next year.
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He said that Mr. McConnell's intransigence was improving the chances for Democratic candidates in Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and that he expected Democrats to retake control of the Senate.
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Our biggest hindrance was the intransigence of the city government, university administrators, and Charlottesville's elite in convincing themselves that something like what did happen would never happen in beautiful, iconic, happy Charlottesville!
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Figures like Jacob Rees-Mogg, the detached aristocrat and top Conservative backbencher known for his double-breasted suits and intransigence on a hard Brexit, did not make May's consensus-seeking any easier.
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Compare that intransigence to the desire for compromise in an NPR/PBS/Marist poll from last week, when 20133% said they like elected officials who make compromises with people they disagree with.
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That could raise the specter of stagflation in the U.K. May might also be well advised to recall that Thatcher's intransigence on the poll tax issue proved to be her political undoing.
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Obama came to his senses while in office, as the Republican Party committed itself to bigotry and intransigence, and he now spends his political capital and energy on reforming our broken democracy.
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The immediate cause of Mr. Seehofer's intransigence is the rising popularity in Bavaria of the populist Alternative for Germany party, which has been siphoning off C.S.U. voters by hammering anti-immigrant positions.
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The Wilson amendment nearly became the 15th Amendment, and in that world, there might have been more energy for black rights — for voting rights writ large — in the face of Southern intransigence.
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On February 10th the Civic Federation, a watchdog, published a new report that said Illinois needs a new budget immediately and admonished Mr Rauner and lawmakers for their intransigence in the budget standoff.
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Backers of May hailed the deal as a personal victory for a beleaguered PM, while critics noted the accord amounted to a huge climbdown in the face of dogged intransigence by EU negotiators.
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While his intransigence on the peace process had made him less valuable to the Pakistanis as well, experts said, Mr. Obama's decision to target him suggested he had little patience for Pakistani sensitivities.
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On citizens' rights, Prime Minister Theresa May has managed to shift the European Union away from its earlier intransigence, particularly when it comes to a continuing role for the European Court of Justice.
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"It is the intransigence, frankly, of so many who say 'don't talk, don't negotiate, just do it our way or no way' that has led to gridlock," Schumer fumed on the Senate floor.
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Remember back in June when Tesla's wunderkind chief executive Elon Musk and Disney's longtime chairman Robert Iger and both quit Trump's business councils in response to the White House's intransigence on climate change?
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Republicans who support a commonsense ban on bump-fire stocks must not allow the NRA's intransigence to dissuade them from moving forward on this small but necessary fix to our nation's gun laws.
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If the district court agrees that the subpoena is valid, it can order compliance, backed by its own contempt powers in the event of continued intransigence, including jailing the offender until he complies.
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Or perhaps he is merely seeking to position himself and his Conservative Party as the victims of European intransigence ahead of national elections that are likely to follow if Europe does not budge.
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His intransigence placed him well to the right of Republican leadership, including former Speaker John Boehner, whom he repeatedly opposed for — get this — being excessively soft on curbing disbursements from the federal purse.
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"Amtrak had no choice but to go forward with its second-best solution because of the administration's intransigence at refusing to move forward on the Gateway project," Mr. Schumer said in a statement.
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"Zelenskiy is going to hit two walls, one in Paris and one afterwards - the wall of Russian intransigence and the wall of Ukrainian public unwillingness to endorse humiliating compromises with Russia," Frolov said.
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In doing so he reinforced the impression that Donald Trump's intransigence can only help those he would hurt and hurt those he might be prepared to help -- or at least do no harm.
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"If an independence referendum does arise, it will not be down to bad faith on the part of the Scottish government, but to sheer intransigence on the part of the UK government," Sturgeon said.
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The company's initial response to the incident—blaming the bloodied, semi-conscious flyer for his intransigence and defending the firm's bumping procedures—was described as the worst piece of PR crisis-management in history.
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Le Roux stepped down immediately on Tuesday over similar payments to members of his family within 24 hours of the media allegations surfacing - conduct which Fillon's rivals are touting as honorable alongside Fillon's intransigence.
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It's a fight happening within the left, and like a great many such fights in US politics these days, it reveals sharp differences over how to make progress in the face of Republican intransigence.
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Sources in Suu Kyi's camp say she has grown increasingly frustrated with military intransigence on issues ranging from amending the constitution to relatively minor formalities such as the location of the handover of power.
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Blaming intransigence on both sides, he told the U.N. Security Council he would start 2018 with a proposal to involve a wider constituency in constitutional and electoral reform, since the warring sides were stuck.
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What may be most upsetting to business leaders in the U.K. is that one of the greatest sources of uncertainty comes not from European negotiating intransigence, but from the very heart of British government.
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While this intransigence may have delighted the House Freedom Caucus, their Senate allies and cheerleaders in the conservative media, it is not a sound strategy if McConnell hopes to preserve the GOP's Senate majority.
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Hannity's intransigence is Trumpian in its effectiveness: By backing off on reporting on Fox News about Rich, but maintaining his contention that there "is something going on," he is effectively having it both ways.
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When the Senate finally apologized to African-Americans in 2005 for its near-century of intransigence, it acknowledged that "protection from lynching was the minimum and most basic of federal responsibilities" toward its citizens.
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But for Bruguera, the statue and the exhibit are equivalent symbols of Block's intransigence and her too-close-for-comfort relationship with Cuban functionaries and, indeed, her desire to shield them from international criticism.
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This scenario was always out of the most imaginative Le Carré novel, and it is the sheer unlikelihood of the other alternatives, combined with Mr. Manafort's intransigence, that makes it a contender at all.
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This time the news media helped fan the flames, aided by the activist Sonny Carson, whose intransigence and highly charged rhetoric sapped the resources of David N. Dinkins, the city's first African-American mayor.
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Mr. O'Rourke is a favorite of liberals across the U.S., because they love his starry charisma and because they do not like Mr. Cruz, known for his intransigence and hard-right views, at all.
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Once held up as the administration's most credible cross-aisle emissary, Kelly has instead become the figure — even more than Miller, from whom Democrats expected nothing less — most closely associated with White House intransigence.
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This is the most damning vote on Thursday: No other bill seemed viable, and yet even this plan, after the White House's intervention and amid intransigence from conservatives, could not win the necessary support.
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Change My View was the brainchild of Kal Turnbull, a musician who was just 17 when he launched the subreddit in 2013, roughly three years before intransigence became the guiding principle of all debate everywhere.
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The Party approved of Johnson's plan, but Dodds worried about the intransigence of the Irish government and the E.U. I asked him if he trusted Johnson to stand by the D.U.P. as the crisis intensified.
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The Lib Dems' ardent support for close relations with the European Union would, strategists believed, provide a way to appeal to the sort of young, educated, metropolitan voters who felt betrayed by the party's intransigence.
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The intransigence which made him the great artist he was his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view.
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But despite her accusations that the British government's "sheer intransigence" over Brexit is driving Scotland towards independence, Mundell said he doubted whether there was, or would be, appetite for a new vote soon, citing polls.
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"Because of the Democrats intransigence on Border Security and the great importance of Safety for our Nation, I am respectfully cancelling my very important trip to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum," Trump tweeted.
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The intransigence which made him the great artist he was — his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view.
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American officials largely blame the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, saying his intransigence has stymied efforts to build on a 2010 arms control treaty and further shrink the arsenals of the two largest nuclear powers.
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"Because of the Democrats intransigence on Border Security and the great importance of Safety for our Nation, I am respectfully cancelling my very important trip to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum," he tweeted.
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Ties between the United States and North Korea have been on ice, as Pyongyang's intransigence on denuclearization and Washington's refusal to engage without such a commitment from the Kim Jong Un regime have stymied engagement.
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Washington (CNN)The congressman who quit the House Freedom Caucus after it helped torpedo the Republican health care bill last week is still railing in anger against what he said is the group's intransigence. Rep.
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But Mr. Trump emerged from the shutdown with nothing to show for it, having angered swing voters with his intransigence, while disappointing hard-line supporters by failing to secure any funding for a border wall.
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That legislation ought to pass the House of Commons without too much trouble — not least because Theresa May could use any legislative intransigence to engineer an early general election that her party would win handsomely.
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In an era when extreme nationalism often breeds intransigence, it is a welcome sight to see America and its partners join the United Kingdom in publicly stressing the consequences of flagrantly violating a nation's sovereignty.
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Despite McConnell's protests of Democratic intransigence, during the first two years of Trump's presidency the White House has focused on filling influential appeals court judgeships - nominations that would not be subject to the rules change.
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Such continued intransigence on the part of the Fed, ignoring the accelerating weakness of nearly all of our major trading partners, would materially raise the risk of recession here at home, and exacerbate the one abroad.
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Sources in her camp say she became frustrated with military intransigence on issues ranging from amending the constitution that bars her from the presidency to minor formalities such as the location of the handover of power.
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G20 members are also bracing for US intransigence as the leaders work to release a final joint communique from the assembled leaders -- a Trump administration position that has hampered efforts to release communiques at past summits.
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TAKING an unorthodox stand against legislative intransigence, a cohort of Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives occupied the floor of that chamber at 11:20083 am on June 22nd to demand action on gun control.
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"The Flint water crisis is a story of government failure, intransigence, unpreparedness, delay, inaction and environmental injustice," Chris Kolb, co-chairman of the task force, told reporters in unveiling the group's findings, according to Michigan Radio.
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Notwithstanding their longstanding intransigence, on the heels of a recent congressional hearing about internet platform filtering practices, it is abundantly clear that today's online status quo is unacceptable — and the laws enabling it need to change.
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Again, there are cynics who say this is the point of his return trip -- that he knows it may fail, and will serve to emphasize the Maduro government's intransigence if it denies Guaidó's freedom of movement.
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That is not the only accusation that has been leveled at Guardiola during City's stutter over the last 10 weeks: Intransigence has been featured, as has a supposed tendency to overcomplicate matters, and a perfectionist's restlessness.
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But as some experts wisely noted, the intransigence in Congress and the persistent drag of drug costs on so many Americans' wallets will keep the pressure on lawmakers to propose bigger and bolder solutions to the problem.
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It is also very likely that China could have been encouraged in its intransigence on U.S. trade by the fact that America's close friends and allies are all flocking to Beijing in search of trade and investments.
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Such intransigence frustrates Samson Itodo, a founder of the "Not too young to run" campaign, which is trying to clean up elections and make political involvement easier for the three-quarters of Nigerians who are under 35.
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"Iranian and Iraqi intransigence to the proposed output cuts remains in full force while competitive pressures among OPEC members was highlighted by news that Iran displaced Saudi Arabia as the top oil supplier to India," he said.
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"The Flint water crisis is a story of government failure, intransigence, unpreparedness, delay, inaction and environmental injustice," Chris Kolb, co-chairman of the task force, told reporters in unveiling the group's findings Wednesday, according to Michigan Radio.
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The ruling shocked lawyers representing the families of the disappeared — not only because it validated years of painstaking effort to seek an impartial inquiry in the face of government intransigence, but also because it cannot be appealed.
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The SEC, which has primary authority in matters regarding brokers and investment advisers, was uncharacteristically absent in the rule's formation under the previous administration due to DOL intransigence and likely political pressure from the Obama White House.
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"Because of the Democrats intransigence on Border Security and the great importance of Safety for our Nation, I am respectfully cancelling my very important trip to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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This vote will be a significant test to see whether a bipartisan coalition can finally overcome intransigence and whether gun control activists are willing to seize the potential for an incremental breakthrough, even when much more is needed.
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In my judgment, it would be tragic if the indefensible behavior suggested by McCain (who should know better) and Cruz provokes a new Democratic majority to rewire the Senate rules to overcome a Republican wall of partisan intransigence.
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Supporters of Mr. Obama say the slowdowns are understandable given the rising level of hostility and intransigence of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, as well as the inherent difficulties involved in arms control and complex technical projects.
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Because of McConnell's intransigence, the Obama administration decided not to go public with the information, fearing that it would just lead to a partisan squabble and accusations that it was trying to influence the election on Clinton's behalf.
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"Because of the Democrats intransigence on Border Security and the great importance of Safety for our Nation, I am respectfully cancelling my very important trip to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum," Trump tweeted earlier this month.
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He said that "victory is not winning for our party, victory is winning for our country," a clear smack at what he sees as partisan Democrats who are trying to effectively end his presidency through intransigence and investigations.
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This intransigence over immigration only helps bolster the popularity of Mexico's left-wing president, eliminating any leverage the opposition in Mexico could use to pressure the president to change his policy toward Venezuela to align with Mr. Trump's.
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This group was not influential during the search for a grand bargain — had a deal been reached, it simply would have passed without their votes — but, in part due to Republican intransigence, they wound up winning the argument.
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"There is no question that the Trump administration is on solid ground when it wants local authorities to cooperate with [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], so Democratic intransigence on this is out of step with public opinion," he continued.
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Still, while Mr. Zelensky's steadfastness was a relief to millions of Ukrainians, the intransigence of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, brought into sharper relief a few realities, none of which bodes well for the West in the long term.
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But McConnell also slowed down the process in more subtle ways, particularly in his yearlong effort to derail the Affordable Care Act, which made him once again the public face of a particularly unapologetic form of Republican intransigence.
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The Trump administration has tried to turn the American constitutional framework on its head, and Republican members have signaled their willingness to accept presidential intransigence in the face of efforts by Congress to perform its most basic functions.
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His latest scripted comment, EU officials said, exposed frustration among the national leaders he speaks for at rejection of a done deal and anger at how London seems ready to risk jobs and peace while blaming EU "intransigence".
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - The European Union's "intransigence" in Brexit negotiations is the reason for the real prospect of Britain leaving the EU without a deal, the deputy leader of the Northern Irish party backing Britain's minority government said on Friday.
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" She said her attempts to talk to the government in London about a potential compromise deal under which Scotland could remain in the UK but retain special access to the single market had hit a "brick wall of intransigence.
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In Matus' view, the Fed's intransigence will ultimately result in inflation increasing to a level beyond which central bankers are comfortable, forcing them to raise rates and cool off the economy to prevent prices from ratcheting up too high.
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Some lawmakers said the legislation was "ludicrous", accused the Spanish government of intransigence ahead of national elections later this month, and complained about how the European Council which brings together member states bulldozed the European Parliament on the issue.
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If the Republicans' current tax reform effort fails, the cause will not be Democratic intransigence, confounding legislative procedures, or an erratic president, but a steady 2202-year shift in the way the two parties are represented in the Senate.
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Increased Chinese economic uncertainty and any anger directed at us for trade war intransigence could lead to increased efforts to ramp up cyber espionage that would jeopardize sensitive information and expose China's skills, and our own insecurities, in cyberspace.
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Since the time former Speaker Newt GingrichNewton (Newt) Leroy GingrichMORE (R-Ga.) took to the well of an empty House chamber to perform for C-SPAN cameras, our nation has been moving toward this point of intransigence and anger.
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And the idea that Lee was "an honorable man," instead of an enslaver who put men to the sword to defend the institution of slavery, is so off that it is not merely ahistorical, but a form of intransigence.
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But what has transpired in the last few weeks, the release of the sailors, the prisoner swap and the JCPOA reaching implementation, should challenge such interpretations of Iranian partisanship on foreign policy and the intransigence of the "deep state".
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In the face of administrative intransigence and the erosion of faculty governance, staff and students at the University of Sydney have mobilized strongly against the Ramsay proposal, and enlisted the support of colleagues from around the country and overseas.
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We favor engagement over intransigence, because the only way we are going to create the world we want to live in is if we listen to other perspectives, attempt to hear other voices, and meet people where they are.
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The progressive wing of the Democratic Party breathed a sigh of relief that right-wing intransigence had essentially bailed them out in 2011 and began a mobilization campaign that has now succeeded in pushing grand bargaineering out of the party mainstream.
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Luis Vicente León, a pollster, identifies three "clusters" of opinion within the opposition: those who want to pursue the referendum despite the CNE's intransigence, those who want to boycott it and a smaller group that calls for a mass uprising.
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Whether or not this policy will achieve its intended goals is questionable given China's intransigence in response to the Obama administration's policies, but Beijing likely prefers a continuation of the pivot to the harsh stance spelled out in the GOP platform.
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Would-be merger partner, Deutsche Boerse, appeared to be caught off guard by the LSE's unilateral decision as markets and regulators were, with many seeing the London exchange's intransigence as an indication of it developing cold feet about the tie-up.
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It was only when that reality sank in that Mr Conte's deputies—Luigi Di Maio, the leader of the Five Star Movement (M5S), and Matteo Salvini, who heads the hard-right Northern League—began shuffling away from their previous intransigence.
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To resist complacency, let's take stock: In 2016, Obama's passivity and Republican intransigence may have allowed Russian cyberattacks to swing the presidency to Trump (there's no way to be sure, but that's what the forensic work of Kathleen Hall Jamieson suggests).
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Yet in making public a case that there would be consequences for Mr. Assad's intransigence, Mr. Kerry was touching on one of the hardest issues facing Mr. Obama and his national security team in their last eight months in office.
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LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The "sheer intransigence" of Theresa May's British government over Brexit could lead to a second Scottish independence referendum, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday, warning time was running out for the country to change course.
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There are no ideal policies, but it would help to have an arms embargo and sanctions aimed at the assets of individuals on each side of the civil war: Make leaders pay a price for intransigence, instead of profiting from it.
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's SNP has stepped up calls for a second referendum, saying May's "sheer intransigence" in Brexit talks could push Scotland, which voted to remain in the EU, out of the bloc's single market and end EU immigration.
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Peterson said Democrats like him have been defeated during Obama two terms and that embracing a strategy of intransigence will further that trend and "drive us down to a 150 member minority" (there are currently 241 Republicans and 194 Democrats).
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"We do not understand the Qatari intransigence which is built on the principle of sovereignty that had been repeated in every reaction issued by Doha," the Arabic-language al-Riyadh newspaper, which reflects Saudi government thinking, wrote in an editorial.
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So, it's complicated, which is why it is exasperating that the face-off between Cannes and Netflix is too often merely framed as evidence of French intransigence, of a fusty festival not being hip to the demands of the young audience.
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Lenk makes clear the moral stakes of Alceste's behavior and never lets us lose sight of the consequences of his intransigence; Fritsch, dealing with a romp about deceptive appearances and unstable identities, hits the mark with a far lighter touch.
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"A bipartisan bill will send a strong message that the United States will not tolerate this intransigence and will give the Administration additional tools to strengthen and expand sanctions against the North Korean regime and those who support it," he added.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday canceled his planned trip to the annual and glittering economic conference in Davos, Switzerland, citing what he called the Democrats' intransigence on his funding request to build a wall along the United States' southern border.
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During a Wednesday cabinet meeting, just hours before sitting down with congressional leaders, Mr. Trump doubled down on his intransigence, rejecting a compromise proposal for $2.5 billion in wall funding that his vice president, Mike Pence, had floated to Democrats.
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While it would be easy to shout "GROUNDHOG DAY" in the direction of Arsene Wenger and be done with it at this point, the reality of their past six Round of 16 exits is somewhat more complicated than managerial intransigence.
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The Republican Party has been playing with fire for years: This is a political organization that, because of its intransigence, has closed down America's government (and reduced its credit rating), and that has nominated the ridiculously unqualified Sarah Palin for the vice presidency.
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And while the main relationship in Cyril's life is the one she shares with her brother, that doesn't prevent her from setting him straight (read mantra above) when his almost childish intransigence stands in the way of his, and more importantly her, happiness.
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Yet it had no real alternative but to accept the new terms: continued intransigence could have led either to a Brexit with no deal at all or the collapse of Mrs May's government and the arrival in power of Labour's Jeremy Corbyn.
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"Iranian and Iraqi intransigence to the proposed output cuts remains in full force while competitive pressures among OPEC members was highlighted by news that Iran displaced Saudi Arabia as the top oil supplier to India," Stephen Brennock of oil brokerage PVM said.
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"There were Iranian efforts to exploit the situation in Aleppo and prevent any evacuation of our people from besieged Aleppo but in the end a deal was reached despite the Iranian intransigence," Ahmad Qura Ali, the spokesman for the group, told Reuters.
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The developer, a former Google engineer named Mike Hearn, believed that bitter infighting and intransigence among the core development team had paralyzed the system, which was facing growing pains that, unaddressed, would cripple the currency so badly it was unlikely to recover.
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That year, in the face of Republican intransigence on several lower-court judicial appointments, then-Majority Leader Harry Reid held a vote to permit the confirmation of judicial and executive-office nominees by a simple majority vote rather than a supermajority of 60.
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She talked about how her husband, by the end of his life, had become disillusioned by baseball's intransigence, not just over the thinning ranks of black American players but the league's blatant failure to promote diversity among its managerial and executive ranks.
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He has taken such polarizing stances on a series of key issues -- hard-line immigration policies, his mockery of #MeToo, and his intransigence on gun control -- that the energy driving his opponents will be stronger than the fact that economic times are good.
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Meanwhile, congressional Democrats are jostling themselves eagerly within range of TV cameras to be seen negotiating in good faith with Donald Trump on deals whose inevitable later collapse they will then blame on the extremism and intransigence of Mitch McConnell and congressional Republicans.
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Negotiations with Mexico on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have hit a wall as the U.S. and it's southern neighbor continue to accuse "one another of intransigence and inconsistency" following disagreements on car manufacturing rules, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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The Supreme Court nomination hearings of Brett Kavanaugh and the ensuing storm over the sexual assault allegations made against him have exposed many things, but perhaps most of all, they have exposed the depth, belligerence and intransigence of misogyny in our time.
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Congress has been marked by intransigence on gun legislation, including a failure last year to ban so-called bump stocks, an accessory that the gunman in the October shooting in Las Vegas used to transform his semiautomatic rifles to mimic automatic weapon fire.
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Now, the Trump administration is strongly considering whether to withhold $255 million in aid that it had delayed sending to Islamabad, according to American officials, as a show of dissatisfaction with Pakistan's broader intransigence toward confronting the terrorist networks that operate there.
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"We're thrilled that we get to force a conversation about immigration issues like kids in cages and the fact that families have been separated, the fact that we have 1.8 million DREAMers that are still out there because of their intransigence," Jayapal said.
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With Republican intransigence over Merrick Garland, Mr Obama's Supreme Court pick, leaving a bad taste in Democrats' mouths, the minority party is likely to use any and all obstructionist tactics available to them under obscure Senate rules to delay or thwart votes on judicial nominees.
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Faced with such a record of duplicity and intransigence, Barack Obama had apparently long since concluded that if he was to achieve anything in the sphere of nuclear non-proliferation, Iran offered at least a chance of success; with North Korea there was virtually none.
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Gabbard doesn't seem too frustrated by the stalled progress of her signature bill, the Stop Arming Terrorists Act; in political terms, it may be more effective as a blocked bill—a symbol of the intransigence she wants to battle—than as an enacted law.
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I wrote then in The Hill: In my judgment, it would be tragic if the indefensible behavior suggested by McCain (who should know better) and Cruz provokes a new Democratic majority to rewire the Senate rules to overcome a Republican wall of partisan intransigence.
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The ERG, along with a surprisingly large number of other Brexiteers, now believe that's worth the risk, in order to avoid leaving any loopholes through which undesirable goods, services, or people could pass from Europe to the U.K. These hardliners' intransigence may prove their undoing.
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But that plan ran aground, senators said, because of intransigence by Trump and House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhy President Trump needs to speak out on Hong Kong Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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He was willing to make a "grand bargain" with Republicans that would have undermined Medicare and Social Security, deeply damaging the Democratic brand; he was saved only by the G.O.P.'s total intransigence, its unwillingness to contribute a single penny's worth of tax increases.
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His session with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain was tense as they tried to put the relationship back on track, while his sit-down with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was warm as the two agreed on what they cast as Palestinian intransigence.
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Although Robin Campillo's "Beats Per Minute" centers on Act Up activists struggling against government apathy and corporate intransigence in the early 1990s, the movie's intricate negotiation of gender issues, the complexities of identity and the necessity of resistance make up for the story's frustrating bagginess.
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In a sharp challenge to May, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said last week she would be pushing for a fresh independence vote after having been met by "a brick wall of intransigence" in London when seeking for Scotland to have its own Brexit deal.
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"The length and political dynamics of the shutdown have highlighted the unpredictability and intransigence of the Trump administration on economic issues, which could paradoxically end up working to the U.S. advantage," said Eswar Prasad, the former head of the International Monetary Fund's China division.
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For the past 20 years or so, the movies themselves have been consistent in their themes, attitudes and rhythms, but sometimes I'm unable to shake myself out of my sunny, shallow, American mental habits and succumb to the master's gloomy Gallic wit and intellectual intransigence.
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Though the recent shows of mutual deescalation are unprecedented, there's always the risk that negotiations could fail due to intransigence on either side—and even in a best-case scenario, the odds could be long that the players involved can commit to a long-term deal.
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No administration would be able to produce an easy answer for the dilemmas posed by Pyongyang's intransigence, but Trump has stuck himself with a unique problem: To admit that North Korea is misbehaving would be to call one of his own signature pseudo-accomplishments into question.
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It's just hard to see Sanders, with his wagging finger, unkempt hair and old-guy-I-don't-care attitude as someone who could actually be President, let alone find ways to bridge the hyper-partisan divide and intransigence my mother-in-law describes as a major concern.
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Regardless of the fact that regional stability remains in a free fall, Iranian dominance continues to mushroom, and instances of Palestinian double-dealing, incitement and intransigence have spiked to an all-time high, taking "no" for an answer is not an option for Mr. Solow et al.
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"It certainly has its detractors, and there's no question that at least one of the reasons why it hasn't been as effective as some had hoped is the intransigence and obstructionism of the United States," said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas.
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Now Linker might respond (depending on where he sits theologically these days) that this is still a false choice even if our fears are understandable, and that conservative Catholics shouldn't let the radicalism of some our interlocutors justify a perfect intransigence against any change at all.
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"Facing the intransigence from Ryanair and the lack of interest of the Portuguese government on guaranteeing the fundamental labor rights to their citizens that work for Ryanair, the cabin crew had no other choice but to return to the industrial conflict," SNPVAC said in a statement.
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This time, as senators again search for a way forward on immigration, a revolt from the right has so far failed to materialize, in large part because of the intransigence of a different player: a man in the White House who has mostly satisfied immigration hard-liners.
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The Justice Department, in arguing that federal courts should stay out of disputes between the executive and legislative branches, said Congress has other ways to address an administration's intransigence including withholding funding for the government and the ultimate power of impeachment to remove a president from office.
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"What we noticed in recent days is the intransigence of some parties and their insistence on chanting some tendentious slogans," a defense ministry statement quoted army chief of staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah as saying at a military base in the southwestern province of Bechar.
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Judge Thomas P. Griesa, the United States District Court judge handling the case, frustrated by Argentina's decade-long intransigence despite a strong economic recovery post-default, ultimately forced Argentina to pay, but also quickly extricated himself from the case once Argentina had made a reasonable offer.
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"The military solution is the more likely one for the Yemen crisis in light of the intransigence of the Houthi and Saleh coup militias which continue to take orders from Iran," Hadi said in the interview, according to a text provided by the Yemeni state-run Saba news agency.
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It also made vague threats relating to its business in the city, saying that it employed 4,000 people, and planned to spend $1 billion over the coming years, but that "the city's intransigence does not create a favorable environment" for it to renew its Fios franchise with New York.
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VICE News spoke with nearly a dozen diplomats and national officials, and nearly all of them mentioned specific examples of Russian intransigence during negotiations, or alluded to the pall it cast over the consensus-based drafting process, a setup that effectively gave Russia a veto in many areas.
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According to Chinese state media, Mr Kim complained to Mr Xi about American intransigence, saying his country had not received "positive responses" from an unnamed party despite taking "many active measures to control tensions", though he promised to remain "patient" with this mysterious foot-dragger for the time being.
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He even claims, against all evidence, that our present stalemate over immigration is caused by those who oppose any form of "amnesty" and those "opposed to stricter enforcement of existing rules," when in fact it is on the right, and the right only, where intransigence and unyielding intolerance reigns.
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Republicans who have vowed to deny any Obama nominee even a confirmation hearing will have to consider the possibility that if they hold to their intransigence they may find themselves and the country in the dubious position of having to consider a Trump nominee for the Supreme Court.
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From Gingrich's rule changes in the House through Clinton's impeachment through George W. Bush's theft of the 2000 election through adamantine GOP intransigence under Obama to widespread state-level efforts to suppress the votes of minorities, the US political media has watched the right traduce one norm after another.
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Yet more recently, in Donald Trump's Washington, Warner has evolved into Capitol Hill's most reluctant and thoughtful tech critic, grilling Facebook, Twitter, and Google executives, lashing out in private and public over their intransigence, and pressing the companies to confront the role their platforms have played in undermining democracy.
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But Mr. McConnell's unprecedented use of the filibuster — which forced Democrats to muster 60 votes to get anything done — and other obstructionist tactics drew loud rebukes from Democrats and traditionalists, who identified his intransigence as eroding longstanding norms and contributing greatly to voters' anger over a dysfunctional Washington.
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But Suu Kyi has become frustrated with the intransigence of the military on issues ranging from a constitutional amendment that would allow her to become president to the location of the handover ceremony before the start of the new government on April 1, say sources in her camp.
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Ms. Pelosi has argued that it is Mr. Trump's intransigence — and Mr. McConnell's refusal to allow a vote on House bills that would reopen the government but not fund a border wall, despite the Senate's passage of such a measure last month — that is putting the nation at risk.
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Instead, this section of the episode is devoted to a very '90s rom-com about Jake (Morgan Krantz) and Gemma (Caitlin McGee), who meet-cute in a video store, then set a date to watch a famous, supposedly impossible-to-find, incredibly filthy French film called The Intransigence of Love.
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Three decades later, that intransigence emerged again in policies that prevented Nigeria from making a swift recovery from its first recession in 25 years, a slump caused by a collapse in oil prices and attacks on energy facilities by armed gangs looking for a slice of the country's hydrocarbon wealth.
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And its failure revealed how fully the Republican Party had boxed itself in in Congress — the degree to which it had been paralyzed by its own extremity and tactical logic, and the degree to which this intransigence had produced a cynicism among Democrats that amounted to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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This question arises not from a dearth of ideological generosity, but from the striking contrast between how congressional Republicans, and particularly congressional Republicans from Texas, have responded to the needs of their own constituents recently and their intransigence toward Hurricane Sandy's victims in New Jersey and New York in 2012.
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The lack of progress is due to Turkish intransigence most recently demonstrated by Turkey's insistence on antiquated and obstructive stances, such as the Treaty of Guarantee, which would allow for future unilateral Turkish military interventions and is completely unacceptable and contradicts the governing principals of a European Union member state.
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ISTANBUL — An Istanbul courtroom opened a window on the state of American-Turkish relations as Metin Topuz, a Turkish employee of the United States Consulate in Istanbul, went on trial in one of several cases that showcase American powerlessness in the face of the intransigence of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island defeated a liberal challenger in a Democratic primary election on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press, reasserting herself as the party's leader in a state where she has battled criticism from activists on the left and intransigence from old-guard lawmakers in her own camp.
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That group is likely to underline continued Russian intransigence in antidoping efforts, including revelations in September — confirmed by Russia's top antidoping official — that a Moscow laboratory had manipulated thousands of athlete records in an attempt to cover up failed drug tests by athletes before providing the data to WADA investigators.
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Somewhere along the way, Cruz and those who share his penchant for intransigence have hijacked the very meaning of what is it is to be "conservative" by re-defining it as a synonym for "unyielding," and they have lost sight of the fact that politics, by definition, is the art of compromise.
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Imperfect republic though we might be, we still seem to have a reason to worship celebrity, and I think that's where the fixation with royalty comes in -- that in an increasingly, seemingly hopeless era of economic inequality and political intransigence, maybe we think our only hope is being whisked off to a castle.
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But in an effort to defuse accusations in Britain about EU intransigence, the leaders would welcome progress to date on their three key issues: the rights of 3 million EU citizens in Britain; protecting peace in Northern Ireland from the effect of a new border on the island; and Britain's outstanding payments.
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For Democratic politicians whose base doesn't want to compromise and whose own political interest isn't served by any kind of major immigration deal, the bloody-shirt business with MS-13 murders was a permission slip for intransigence: Why make a bargain with a president who talks like half your immigrant constituents are gangbangers?
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To the Editor: Your story on the Republican assault on the Endangered Species Act ("Push to Weaken Law Protecting At-Risk Wildlife," front page, July 23) cites Republican assertions that these "reforms" are long overdue and that Democratic intransigence to prior good-faith Republican efforts at reform are to blame for this effort.
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Moreover, and I say this with incredible sadness, we may also have to look at the intransigence of the Republican Party in allowing President Trump to continue his legal and constitutional transgressions unchecked, and to steer our country toward policies that blatantly harm most Americans and denigrate the values of a democratic nation.
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People argue over whether his impatience with politicians and Republican intransigence denied him bigger accomplishments, but that argument is beside the point: He rescued an economy in crisis and passed the recovery program, pulled America back from its military overreach, passed the Affordable Care Act and committed the nation to addressing climate change.
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Democrats' threat to shut down the government — the sort of intransigence adopted by Republicans in the recent past — indicates their willingness to use the few tools available to them to block legislation next year, when possible, and to bludgeon Republicans with populist issues on which they share common ground with Mr. Trump.
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The European Union has its hands full with the continued failure of most of its members to accept their quota of refugees, with the disastrous negotiations over Brexit, and the continued intransigence of the illiberal governments in Poland and in Hungary, all of which are closely tied to the populist wave in Europe.
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Hillary Clinton is no monster like Trump, but she is the calcification of a leftist-flavored version of what is wrong with politics today: the intransigence and pandering, the corruption and secrecy, the influence of big money, and a no-holds-barred, the ends-justify-the-means approach to an entitled sense of rulership.
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Hot on the heels of the UN's well-meaning intransigence comes the US State Department, who only a few weeks ago articulated a multi-point strategy for Syria so wide and all-encompassing that it essentially committed the US to a more or less permanent presence in the country -- as well as Assad's departure.
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All his most envied and celebrated qualities have been simultaneously ridiculed by the relentless popular laughter: his speech capable of convincing anyone, his ability to say one thing and do another, and of course always blaming Yankee imperialism for all his setbacks; his intransigence—until the opportunity to say and do exactly the opposite arrived.
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Whether that fate awaits the GND depends on many things, among them whether President Donald Trump — the culmination of a history of total Republican intransigence and ugliness the stretches over young activists' entire adult lives — has changed the political landscape enough that Democrats might leave behind their long defensive crouch and voice some ambition.
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Yet Grove, known at times as combative and vindictive to those who crossed him, was also pilloried for his role in one of the biggest missteps in Intel's history: the company's intransigence after a major calculating flaw was discovered in 1994 in Intel's flagship Pentium microprocessor, an error that Intel had known about but deemed too insignificant too fix.
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The moral outrage over House Republican intransigence is linked to a constellation of issues that connect racial and economic injustice, the fight for a living wage and decent housing, the push for immigration reform and the end to anti-Muslim hysteria, as well as movements to end racial segregation and inequality in public schools and communities.
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The Trump administration's rescission of the government's birth control mandate, not only for these organizations but also for others that never even got around to asking for it, is thus a reward for intransigence matched only by the Senate's blockade of the Supreme Court vacancy intended for Merrick Garland that it eventually handed to Neil Gorsuch.
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This is manifested in every issue you can imagine: the Confederate monuments fight, opposition to Black Lives Matter, intransigence on gun control, voter suppression laws, the Muslim ban, the hard line on asylum seekers coming across the southern border, calls to abolish the visa lottery, the defaming of majority black countries, efforts to overturn Roe v.
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But the rest of the world is used to American intransigence after killings like that in El Paso -- to seeing Americans bafflingly discuss cracking down on websites and mental health issues, and not the glaringly obvious problem of battlefield weapons (with magazines used in Dayton unlike anything I've ever seen in a warzone) being available to teenagers.
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Matters of Fact Elizabeth Kolbert's review of three books about the psychology of human reasoning will help readers understand the intransigence of Trump supporters in the face of facts, but I'm a bit annoyed that psychologists are getting a lot of new mileage out of ideas that philosophers have held for many years (Books, February 27th).
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Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the #MeToo movement, the Women's March, March For Our Lives and climate activists illustrated an awakening and rebirth of protest movements in this country, against the intransigence of governments hopelessly linked to powerful industries and the gross imbalances of power between races and gender, and gross abuses of power by the state.
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The Scottish government wants a new independence referendum, encouraging calls for a similar vote in Northern Ireland, which voted to remain in the EU. May has refused to allow Scotland a new referendum in the time scale demanded by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and stood firm on her refusal to share her negotiating stance, which the Scottish government has described as "intransigence".
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Once you start to rally your energies toward a more open future, you will be shocked by the forces arrayed against you; the intransigence of the people who want to buy and sell your information; the amorality of the hackers who play with millions of people for sport; the cold, endemic corruption of intellectual property and patent law; the infinite protections for copyright.
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While privacy advocates might have blamed the delay on intransigence on the part of Judiciary Chairman Bob GoodlatteRobert (Bob) William GoodlatteImmigrant advocacy groups shouldn't be opposing Trump's raids Top Republican releases full transcript of Bruce Ohr interview It's time for Congress to pass an anti-cruelty statute MORE (R-Va.), he said the real breakthrough came when stakeholders finally agreed to negotiate changes.
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The lack of media outrage over the intransigence of Menendez against Issa, who is a successful entrepreneur with significant strengths that he can bring to the trade development role on behalf of the American people, is fitting with repeated and vitriolic personal attacks by both reporters and pundits alike, against not only President Trump, but those who serve the public in his administration.
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The Risk to Europe Playing the "immigration card" in the Brexit negotiations risks the entirety of the EU because it virtually assures that hardline, anti-EU, anti-immigration, nationalists, like France's Marine Le Pen, who currently leads polls in France, Holland's Geert Wilders, and the other EU nationalist leaders will use Merkel's intransigence on immigration to build broader populist political support among their respective nations' electorate.
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In short, a cram-down process will penalize those not responsible for the fiscal problems confronting Puerto Rico, will weaken commonwealth incentives to adopt fiscal and governance reforms, will increase future borrowing costs for the island and for the municipal bond market writ large, will encourage future intransigence on the part of everyone, and will increase rather than reduce the politicization of the municipal bond market.
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Enhanced by video installations in which Krasner details her aesthetic practices and belief in painting as an instrument of revelation, Living Colour captures the artist as vividly as it does her art, charting her breakthroughs in the face of 20th-century America's cultural intransigence and narrow-mindedness to become a leader in the development of abstract art, progressing through cycles of radical self-reinvention across six decades.
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Even after reporting through this story and seeing how it affects people and the intransigence of the NFL, I still think I might want to watch, and that ultimately is the hard part about being a person in this world—you have to confront the repercussions of your choices, even when they're between the health of a top pinnacle athlete and pushing a button to turn on a TV.
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This faith persists against all contrary evidence provided not only by the Trump era—in which the party has, among other things, abetted Trump's attacks on Biden's own son—but also by the Obama era, during which Biden saw, as his own recollection of the Garland saga illustrates, the GOP both frustrate Democrats with strategic intransigence and lean in to a conspiratorial racism that presaged Trump and will endure after his presidency.
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The rhetoric took a harsh turn, with Democrats complaining that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is an erratic, unreliable negotiating partner and Republicans bemoaning Democrats' intransigence over what the GOP sees as unreasonable immigration demands.
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