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"intransigent" Definitions
  1. (of people) unwilling to change their opinions or behaviour in a way that would be helpful to others

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Intransigent politicians have been a problem, particularly in eastern Europe.
What happens when we have two hardcore intransigent 3% movements?
Intransigent Palestinians like to say they take the long view.
Some Clinton boosters were visibly annoyed at the intransigent Sanders supporters.
A weakened Republican Party has been left angrier and more intransigent.
In announcing his decision, Chaffetz specifically accused Cobert of being intransigent.
It was long dominated by intransigent teachers' unions and almost went bust.
Protesters have become angrier and more militant, and university officials more intransigent.
But Ravel bitterly complained the format enabled intransigent Republican commissioners to cause gridlock.
Mr Netanyahu appears intransigent; Palestinian leaders are seen as divided, ineffective and corrupt.
That is why activists are so intransigent in pushing for a complete ban.
They have grown more intransigent, raising questions that were literally answered decades ago.
Some people argue that North Korea's leaders are not just intransigent but irrational.
He grew testy at times, sparring with Republicans he argued were being intransigent.
Intransigent police officials risk being held in contempt of court or even prosecuted.
"It's going to be hard because the company has been quite intransigent," Mujica said.
Others argue that hearts and minds would have proved more intransigent without their pyrotechnics.
It's a risky ploy, given how intransigent the hardline conservatives have been on immigration.
Mr. Netanyahu has lately presented himself as a willing negotiator faced with intransigent Palestinians.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker promised the EU would be "intransigent" with Britain.
" The powerful union leader Len McCluskey has accused the Jewish community of "intransigent hostility.
I think this is worse, because I think you have a more intransigent President.
Over time, the Black Panthers learned to tolerate Confederate flags as intransigent signs for rebellion.
It was a cryptic order to activate a plot to assassinate the intransigent prime minister.
Too easily swayed, it helps create the opposite danger, the sneering autocrat, proud and intransigent.
But he certainly served as an intransigent advocate for Arnold Schoenberg's modernist 12-tone technique.
President Trump has set an example of achievement in the face of unprecedented, intransigent opposition.
China is open to reform, they say, but the U.S. is intransigent in its behavior.
The intransigent move is sure to bring a rebuke from lawmakers who are threatening to sue.
He was reported to be intransigent, lacking intellectual curiosity, and racist even by 19th-century standards.
He is right that the Tories were, along with the DUP, the most intransigent of all.
Intransigent even when faced with imminent defeat last summer, Mr Assad now believes he is winning.
As our leaders go down to electoral defeat, our emboldened opponents become more intransigent and aggressive.
If Mr. Jammeh remains intransigent and the standoff leads to violence, he will bear sole responsibility.
European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has gone further, saying the EU must be "intransigent" with London.
He is irritable, intransigent and whimsical, scorning an entire breakfast in favour of a diet cherry Coke.
Facing intransigent unions, Alan Joyce of Qantas in Australia even grounded his airline until they caved in.
Granted, armed violence is a multi-faceted, often intransigent public health problem, which spans a dozen disciplines.
Obama, of course, immediately lost control of Congress and saw the rise of the intransigent Tea Party.
The effect of greenhouse gas emissions seems like an intransigent problem to curb, much less to solve.
The future of the Philharmonic, that great and intransigent institution, is in the hands of others. ♦
That's the reality, and it sets up a match that pits two intransigent constituencies against one another.
But the boss is intransigent and will neither own up to the mistake or make any change.
Ping remained intransigent during his speech in the capital Libreville, saying he refused to recognize Bongo's presidency.
Those who are wedded to the past and lag behind, like the intransigent Hem, will not survive.
Such intransigent obliqueness is just what both we humans and android life forms have been waiting for.
Goldman Sachs had concerns over the new oversight regime, but it could not afford to look intransigent.
They'll vote out intransigent Republicans and usher in a wave of legislators who will help enact his agenda.
But facing intransigent unions at home and competition from abroad, the airline's financial fizz is rapidly going flat.
But Mr Singer's Elliott Management led the most intransigent group; an agreement with them is the real prize.
We might see the book's lovely, intransigent Polishness as akin to the author's idea of the anti-Wikipedia.
"The new thesis I'm hearing is that the president's woes are making the Chinese more intransigent, " Cramer explained.
One snarling white face, that of 15-year-old Hazel Bryan, became the symbol of intransigent racial bigotry.
That aspect is explained by… The Intransigent Asshole Theory Of course the Internet was always full of awful.
And Trump himself bears more than a slight resemblance to Richard Nixon at his most paranoid and intransigent.
Either we tear down the entire system, or we accept whatever crumbs an intransigent GOP Congress might offer.
Surprisingly, perhaps, this was an answer that many city officials, frustrated with their own intransigent development processes, endorsed.
The unions are often caricatured as intransigent obstacles to progress, and they have a way of amplifying that image.
In fact, aspects of the forum stand in stark contrast with the many ways China remains closed and intransigent.
He was eager to put his Communist foes on the defensive diplomatically, to depict them as aggressive and intransigent.
Like the radical leftists of the 2000s, these religious groups have adopted intransigent positions on issues they care about.
He added that rather than being intransigent, Mexico and Canada were taking a "good sense" approach to the talks.
In giving the intransigent boundaries previously dictated to him the middle finger, Styles is typifying the essence of punk.
Such a deal would have to be ratified by all other EU members, making it hostage to one intransigent Parliament.
"The army is beginning to fracture as an intransigent leader digs in," says Abdi Rashid of the International Crisis Group.
It effectively sidelines an intransigent White House, aligns more closely with overseas standards and offers some handy incentives to boot.
"I'm frustrated in the situation that we've gotten to this point where both sides appear to be intransigent," Collins said.
At 73, he's a rare breed: a combination of Captain Planet and Howard Roark, the intransigent architect in The Fountainhead.
But when it comes to trade, Mr. French said that the Trump administration had been intransigent about their tariff concerns.
He sees two poles of identity and outlook, unique and intransigent, that are destroying themselves by staying so far apart.
The leaders of the two countries are both hasty, intransigent, and not very well informed about the other side's goals.
She needs to light another match to set fire to a particularly intransigent section and get the whole thing going.
The hardline conservatives have been intransigent on immigration, but the minority has calculated that this is the best move they have.
The third, final and perhaps highest obstacle will be Mr Kurz's own party—and the intransigent Austrian establishment that it epitomises.
The two leaders, who met on the afternoon of April 3rd, are not just far apart politically but also notoriously intransigent.
"The new thesis I'm hearing is that the president's woes are making the Chinese more intransigent," the "Mad Money" host explained.
Would he take up arms against an intransigent and oppressive southern regime of Jim Crow, lynching and economic marginalization of blacks?
She is struggling mightily, vote by intransigent vote, to cobble together a moderate majority to approve her plan before March 29.
Widely mocked for being robotic in persona and intransigent in policy, May decided to take ownership, self-deprecatingly, of her flaws.
Over the weekend, Maia called the president remote and intransigent, suggesting he lacks the commitment to see the reform through Congress.
Part of it is about [telling] the international community that it's the United States now that is being the most intransigent.
" More than a repeal of H.B. 2, she'd like to see efforts to bridge what she calls "a pretty intransigent cultural divide.
Turnbull prompted the election by dissolving both houses of Parliament in May, blaming intransigent independents in the Senate for blocking his agenda.
"I'm frustrated in the situation that we've gotten to this point where both sides appear to be intransigent," Collins said on NBC.
The remarks by the official could also be seen as an effort to cast Democrats as the intransigent side in the debate.
One need only look to the legislative setbacks for President Obama to see what happens when transformative ideas hit an intransigent Congress.
Traditionalists in the Vatican are insisting that Francis would do better not to engage with intransigent leaders and intractable problems at all.
Mr. Biden's graciousness toward Republicans has gotten him into trouble with Democrats who see him as overly solicitous to an intransigent party.
In the face of an intransigent right-wing government in Israel, which doesn't believe Palestinians should have full rights, negotiations are futile.
A Fox News under James Murdoch could still be conservative, but would almost certainly be less intransigent on issues like climate change.
When the clock strikes midnight and she must return to California, she presses her husband for that divorce but Thorpe remains intransigent.
This is why literature is the greatest argument for the universalist instinct, and this is why literature is intransigent about its liberty.
He is also the new Roderick Dhu: a brash, intransigent strongman -- not at all a statesman -- who demands absolute loyalty from his followers.
Even so, beset by the ticking clock, rebellious MPs and an intransigent EU, Mrs May will find the next few weeks exceptionally trying.
Pence followed that up with a visit to Capitol Hill to sit down with the conservative and so-far intransigent House Freedom Caucus.
We feel empathy for characters even when they seem intransigent or unreasonable, because we've come to see how they arrive at their conclusions.
The new government will keenly support Emmanuel Macron's proposals for European reform; apart from on the euro zone, where Berlin will remain intransigent.
It's a dynamic not lost on Democrats, who have long criticized GOP leaders for allowing an intransigent conservative minority to steer the ship.
CARL QUINTANILLA: Tom, are you saying that you think of the two sides that the U.S. is the more intransigent of the two?
And, as we have seen in Maine, voters approving Medicaid expansion doesn't mean things will go smoothly if there are intransigent state officials.
RED-YELLOW DIVIDE The junta's four-year moratorium on politics was aimed at stamping out the intransigent red-yellow divide in Thai politics.
It's pretty frustrating how intransigent some local politicians are but there's some really great politicians in Kentucky, too, especially at the state politics level.
Excessive pay demands by Italian unions made Alitalia go bust last year; Air France's intransigent workforce is sending that airline in the same direction.
But if the clock runs down and both sides start blaming each other for being too intransigent, no deal could still happen by accident.
It was the term adopted by white school districts in Prince Edward County, Virginia, where some of the most intransigent resistance to Brown unfolded.
"But there is always a portion of people who are too intransigent to understand such basic rights, even in a democratic country like Spain."
It's a dynamic not lost on the Democrats, who have long criticized GOP leaders for allowing an intransigent conservative minority to steer the ship.
Let's not forget, Mr. Obama had to work with an intransigent Congress, that was more intent on stonewalling him than serving the American people.
Yesterday marked the first time voters have directly authorized expansion, or voted on the issue at all, attempting to work around an intransigent governor.
These are the top-three most intransigent challenges you will face in your omnichannel quest: Sharing of assets across all channels can be difficult.
The problem here is that too many cases can't be adequately considered by the president because of a sluggish and often intransigent review process.
An activist investor and outsider for most of his career, Mr. Icahn staked his career on attacking the chieftains of intransigent companies and regulators.
"The authorities in Myanmar have become more intransigent over time, not less," said Param-Preet Singh, an international justice specialist at Human Rights Watch.
Like Harvard, my own institution, Swarthmore College, where I am a freshman, has remained intransigent in the face of a large student divestment campaign.
The episode has been a gift to Mr Maduro, who can now present himself as open to dialogue, and the opposition as divided and intransigent.
Hardliners in her Conservative Party were urging her to stick two fingers up to the intransigent Europeans and walk away from the deadlocked Brexit negotiations.
Though he was not removed, the impeachment did cripple him politically and force him to back off some of his most intransigent positions on Reconstruction.
" Nassim Taleb argues that once an intransigent minority reaches "3 or 4%" of the total population, the latter will "have to submit to their preferences.
In some ways, oversight of congressional ethics can become a public relations leveraging tool against intransigent members who cross the Trump White House too much.
Mr. Aloni fuses joy and sorrow throughout the film, and ends with a devastating image encapsulating the intransigent forces that conspire to silence young artists.
The ruling is a blow to House Democrats' attempts to break the Trump administration's intransigent stance that it can block Congress from talking to witnesses.
And his efforts to defang American enemies have run up against intransigent foreign leaders as well as resistance from both allies and his own advisers.
But there were so many different problems at Uber that you'd have to be comically naïve to conclude they all stemmed from an intransigent rival.
Even when he's sent to the Tower, his life in peril, he remains a quietly intransigent dissenter to the rampaging egomania of King Henry VIII.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador Drawing lessons from his previous presidential bids and tapping into these global fears, he toned down his socialist, intransigent rhetoric this year.
The divides are not always clear-cut: Slovakia, Slovenia and the Baltic states are euro members, and dislike being lumped in with the more intransigent easterners.
"If the U.S. is intransigent, that is a concern," Fritz said by phone after the No. 1 U.S. railroad by revenue reported a higher quarterly profit.
"The Prime Minister is right to stand firm in the face of disrespectful, intransigent and disgraceful behaviour by the European Union," Foster added in a statement.
The right wing of Mrs May's party has proved so wild and intransigent that she finds it more attractive to do business with a crypto-communist.
But so far at least, the president is following a familiar Trump playbook: holding back from terminating a supposedly intransigent employee, and instead publicly bullying him.
If the core of the GOP shows the moderates as much love as they do for gun absolutists or the religiously intransigent, then we stay put.
"Looking forward to seeing you Friday, but know that I will be intransigent on the choice of off-white roughcast," she said, as an assistant typed.
"We haven't been intransigent, there isn't an impasse," said Michael Spencer, a lawyer who represents another group of individual bondholders and small funds contesting Argentina's offer.
So if you want to blame private equity — as opposed to Amazon or a group of seemingly-intransigent lenders — blame it more for execution than model.
"The Prime Minister is right to stand firm in the face of disrespectful, intransigent and disgraceful behavior by the European Union," Foster added in a statement.
Ballot initiatives picked up steam during the Progressive Era, as a means for voters to push through reforms in the face of inept and intransigent politicians.
Republicans blame Democrats for being intransigent and walking away from opportunities to add DACA into the spending bill, but Democrats say it's Trump they couldn't trust.
The parable of Mr Tsipras's eventual capitulation—his radical government brought to heel by capital markets and an intransigent European Union—is seeping into the left's consciousness.
But that isn't the only thing that might remind you of presidents in the modern era — there's also a lot of contentious fighting with an intransigent Congress.
In fact, a new consortium called the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) is working to apply blockchain to solve some of the most intransigent problems in trucking.
But any nominee must be confirmed by the Senate, and with an intransigent Republican majority there, there is no chance Mr Obama would try to do that.
But in the context of California's housing problems — which are rooted in intransigent local politics, not a lack of money — even tech companies' billions can seem inconsequential.
Yes, more could have been done over the years to resolve the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, but mediators mediate — they cannot alone solve conflicts between intransigent parties.
In fact, few viewers will have objected to the underlying message that it is not crop failure but intransigent and ideologically blinkered humans who cause most famines.
To that end, President Trump, never one to shy away from a firing, would do well to replace Bolton and other intransigent interventionist voices on his team.
Another, Russia, has lately become openly intransigent, not only vetoing the establishment of new protected areas but questioning the very authority of the convention to establish them.
President Trump's intransigent foe We are in a civil war between a transient elected government and the permanent government of bureaucrats in our civil service and intelligence agencies.
A dozen years ago, he'd wanted to buy it, but the current owner, a farmer, resisted, and the more money Yan offered the more intransigent the farmer became.
There are potential political solutions, probably involving greater autonomy for Catalonia, but so long as Mr. Rajoy and Mr. Puigdemont remain intransigent, these will remain out of reach.
"What we don't want are some combinations and arrangements ... I will be intransigent," said Melenchon, who is fighting with Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon for the left-wing vote.
The government is preparing for a crunch Brexit meeting on Friday and Prime Minister Theresa May has called for unity but her government factions appear to remain intransigent.
He is positioning himself to be seen as the hero who tried to prevent such an attack as he battled against an intransigent system that wouldn't let him.
They are supplying conservative parties with nonelite voters, which is good for democracy, but these voters tend to be intransigent on issues of sexuality, which feeds cultural polarization.
The leader of Australia's conservative coalition prompted Saturday's election by dissolving both houses of parliament in May, blaming intransigent independents in the upper house Senate for blocking his agenda.
But the continent's north-south rift is in many ways deeper: it involves intransigent barriers like high mountains and foaming seas, as well as deep cultural and economic differences.
The revival of Tony Kushner's play offers a lens into gayness in the dimension of history — what is intransigent, what is still promissory, and what is so profoundly disappointing.
But in the context of California's housing problems — which are rooted in intransigent local politics, not a lack of money — even the billions from tech companies can seem inconsequential.
But the move raised many questions among former diplomats, who wondered how a recent law school grad would resolve an intransigent dispute that has stymied the US for decades.
Alarmed by conservative talk radio hosts and the constant harping of an intransigent Republican Party, many Americans believed that the ACA would rip apart the fabric of American life.
One of the lessons we learned from 1930s Germany is what happens when an intransigent group of nations tries to humiliate a prostrated borrower country for petty national politics.
If one intransigent House caucus can create this many problems from the right, imagine what life in Washington will be like when its mirror image emerges from the left.
When next Apple must face-off with this intransigent White House over criminality or terrorism attacks at home, any protestations they make will be empty after their capitulation in China.
But remember those links above: you only need 3% of a population to be intransigent activists to have a massive effect on society, on the scale of overthrowing entire governments.
This was a cold, haughty, withdrawn woman who was intransigent and unwilling and actually failing to understand that the world and the country had shifted and failing to understand modernity.
Unfortunately, the Trump administration remains intransigent, pressing the DPRK to concede the main issue at stake before talks can be held — a nonstarter — and leaving the threat of war looming.
The prince is only the latest, if pitifully crude, exponent of shock-and-awe savagery that many Western elites have long deemed vital to the pacification of intransigent non-Westerners.
For example, courts have ruled that doctors may refuse to treat violent or intransigent patients as long as they give proper notice so that those patients can find alternative care.
Perhaps he believes this accounts for some intransigent group of people who would simply refuse affordable insurance on the basis of ideology, like libertarians who don't believe in driver's licenses.
Funai said the prosecutors were being "intransigent" in rejecting Dias because he is an evangelical Christian and added in a statement that the government's solicitor general would defend his appointment.
Corey Stewart, a conservative immigration activist in Virginia who nearly captured the party's nomination for governor this year, encouraged Mr. Trump to take the fight more aggressively to intransigent Republicans.
Since then, he has remained intransigent despite mediation attempts by leaders from ECOWAS, and calls by the wider international community and the United Nations for him to respect the election results.
Mr Sánchez has certainly been the more intransigent of the two: after leading the Socialists to electoral defeat in June 2016, he insisted on opposing Mr Rajoy's investiture as prime minister.
UNITED NATIONS — The United States and China reached an agreement to impose tougher sanctions against North Korea, in what appeared to be a diplomatic shift by Beijing regarding its intransigent ally.
President Trump is facing a far more intransigent foe, one designed to cripple policies supported by an Electoral College majority and, without consideration or concern for allies abroad, embarrass the president.
It has emboldened and rewarded the most hardline and intransigent elements in Israel, while weakening and compromising those Palestinian and Arab leaders who have put their trust in the United States.
But this too could prove beneficial to Democrats because they would look reasonable and Republicans intransigent, and it will certainly make them look better than never trying to negotiate at all.
As each day goes by, that frustration is channeled more and more toward Democrats, who they view as intransigent for being unwilling to entertain policy changes until the government is reopened.
As with any story of early Rome, my immediate rival was the hated city of Veii to the north: Rome's earliest and most intransigent opponent to primacy on the Italian peninsula.
There is a short window before Iran regains its composure and its usually intransigent posture, or at least that seems to be the European calculation: Strike while the iron is hot.
It comes after weeks of deadlock with the government intransigent over meeting an original 50% pay rise demanded by the unions that it said would strain the heavily indebted country's finances.
All along the campaign trail, candidates have been asked to come up with a solution to Chicago's intransigent problem with violence, an issue that Mr. Emanuel wrestled with throughout his tenure.
Kim destroyed a nuclear test site hours before Trump canceled the meeting, allowing it to paint the United States as the intransigent party with constituencies that matter to Pyongyang: Beijing and Moscow.
Macron's electoral victory has offered an opportunity for Paris to examine its policy on Syria with some considering the previous administration's stance as too intransigent and leaving it isolated on the subject.
But it was clear that it was the Italian authorities who had won the greatest number of concessions, after their delegation had proved particularly intransigent before and during the night of talks.
He'll eventually suck up the border wall loss and blame intransigent Democrats for not caring about border security as well as weak-kneed Senate Republicans who refused to pull the nuclear trigger.
In a closed-door meeting with the incoming freshman Democrats on Tuesday, Ms. Pelosi walked a fine line, acknowledging their "idealism, integrity and imagination" while warning of the risks of being intransigent.
They had to accommodate white supporters' intransigent opposition to residential integration and ongoing demands for jobs while incorporating vast new numbers of African Americans through the traditional incentives of patronage and welfare services.
This, they believe, would allow them to paint Republicans as intransigent and well outside the mainstream, undermining the Senate GOP's election-year argument that they are committed to governing in a bipartisan manner.
But not all was booming: chorus-line dancers in Times Square, New York's "densest pleasure ganglion," were poorly paid; suffragists (to whom Macy's marketed matching bonnets and hatpins for demonstrations) faced intransigent opposition.
In the past, France has often been seen by its allies as an intransigent, go-it-alone power because of its military interventions in arenas like Libya, the Middle East and the Sahel.
The 'Medicare for all' lifers The ruling should give a boost to the progressive grass roots, which has argued for some time that intransigent Republicans should be met with ambitious, uncompromising Democratic alternatives.
ALAN GILBERT'S FINAL SEASON As the New York Philharmonic's music director since 27, Mr. Gilbert has done his best to deliver a jolt of experimentation to a hidebound (not to say intransigent) institution.
" The company also took a swipe at Mr. Ackman in its statement, saying it had been "under attack by an intransigent short-seller hellbent on a misinformation campaign designed to destroy our company.
Indeed, Kennedy is a kind of film scenarist who is too literary for film but whose strongest work renders the stage more cinema-like, less intransigent, more open to different ways of moving.
China and South Korea will be the wild cards in the U.S. pressure campaign — they are necessary for it to be effective, but they may try to portray Trump as the intransigent party.
Other resistance leaders proved intransigent or reckless, fellow operatives were too insecure to take orders from a woman and Benzedrine-enhanced libido resulted in male agents cutting a swath through the female population.
He used that approach during recent talks with Canada and Mexico to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement, criticizing foreign counterparts as intransigent and characterizing complaints by American businesses as pure greed.
And yes, while I'm determined to work with Congress to forge a legal pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, I'm not holding my breath for swift action on the part of intransigent Republicans.
In the past, France has tended to be seen by allies as an intransigent, go-it-alone power because of its military interventions in arenas like Libya, the Middle East and the Sahel.
If it became clear that Republicans were willing to compromise while Democrats were intransigent in hope of exploiting the dreamers as a 2018 campaign issue, I think that would go poorly for Democrats.
"What we're seeing develop is that companies will seek exemptions and waivers, but the American stance is so intransigent on the question that we think it's unlikely they will be granted," he said.
" It's especially odd that some on the right are applauding Trump's willingness to meet with Kim, given their previous statements on Obama's efforts to meet with intransigent foreign powers said that it was "troubling.
So what is to be done, in this brave new political world of multiple intransigent subgroups, multiple staunchly believed claims of fascism, and the ignoble failure of the anti-fascist tactics of the past?
"Iran remains intransigent on the issue of an oil output freeze... (and) suggestions that oil has found its bottom may have been a bit premature," Connor Campbell, analyst at Spreadex, said in a note.
McConnell's words sound like more of a threat than a promise, particularly to intransigent Republicans who might fear that a bipartisan bill would be far less palatable to them and to the GOP base.
Each side had at times characterized the other in less than diplomatic terms since Britain's vote to leave the bloc in June - the Britons portrayed as intransigent, the EU as overly angry over Brexit.
The Intransigent Asshole Theory holds that the only thing that's changed is that more assholes are online and they've had more time to find each other and agglomerate into a kind of noxious movement.
New Delhi has long been seen by many countries as an intransigent player at the World Trade Organization (WTO), a multilateral forum that has struggled to find the consensus it needs to move forward.
"It was unusual how someone so senior got involved from the get-go," said Ms. Maheshwari, who has come to expect companies' senior officials to be reticent — even intransigent — when confronted with embarrassing material.
But Germany may not have the luxury of time to reconcile its contradictory feelings about its place in the world, especially with an intransigent America and resurgent Russia, and a Europe rived by populism.
The 300-member worker's union said Lumina, which is controlled by a partnership of JX Holding and Mitsui Mining, had taken an "intransigent" position to their demands during a final period of government-mediated talks.
PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday France would continue to push for intransigent policies towards North Korea's ballistic program and was ready to undertake new initiatives after its latest "irresponsible" ballistic missile launch.
Unfortunately, he's going with one arm tied behind his back by an intransigent, Republican-led Congress that refuses to consider lifting the economic embargo the United States imposed on Cuba more than 50 years ago.
This, they believe, would allow them to paint the GOP as intransigent and well outside of the mainstream, undermining the Senate GOP's election-year argument that they are committed to governing in a bipartisan manner.
Can McConnell bring these sides together, and work with the intransigent Freedom Caucus in the House, around legislation that will change the status quo and where Republicans will likely be blamed for any negative outcome?
This, they believe, would allow them to paint the GOP as intransigent and well outside of the mainstream, undermining the Senate GOP's election-year argument that they are committed to governing in a bipartisan manner.
"Anyone who negotiates with the US is obligated now more than ever to take an intransigent hard line," Van Jackson, a North Korea expert at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, told me.
When you think about what Amazon is building beyond its own direct business lines, however, you might see how ultimately its moves in technology and logistics might be what helps to win over intransigent brands.
And if the will is not there, then it is up to those of us who live in democracies responsible for the biggest carbon footprints to replace the intransigent politicos with ones who will act.
But Trump's rating fits broadly into the average since Obama took office -- especially when you factor in the backdrop of an often hysterically hostile media, a major FBI investigation, as well as an intransigent opposition party.
That year, the financial journalist Michelle Celarier suggested in The New York Post that, of all the holders of debt, Aurelius would be the most intransigent, the least receptive to a forgiveness plan for the island.
The tight vote is a major blow for Turnbull whose gamble on a risky double dissolution of parliament in a bid to oust intransigent independents in the upper house Senate blocking his agenda appears to have backfired.
Now, with an increasingly intransigent and nuclear-capable Kim and the specter of chaos and conflict on China's border, one hopes Beijing will finally realize that illicit trade wasn't the only thing happening while they gazed elsewhere.
The R&B singer Mary J. Blige, in what's said to be a breakout performance, plays a mother whose son (Jason Mitchell) is also a returning veteran who comes back from Europe only to encounter intransigent racism.
Serious federal action may be impossible with an intransigent Republican Congress, but Democratic states along the Pacific Ocean are slowly stitching together a kind of shadow clean energy nation, with an economy 12 times larger than Denmark's.
Le Corbusier's struggles to plant Modernism in Europe would inspire Maekawa, who faced an equally intransigent establishment in Japan; more than anyone else, his work exemplified the innovations and compromises of Japanese Modernism in its early days.
But it plays right into Kim's hand of untying the blood-forged bond between the United States and the South while painting the United States as the intransigent aggressor that willfully impedes inter-Korean reconciliation and reunification.
While it reflects broader ethnic and economic divisions, this dispute stems from a clash between intransigent political personalities — and its resolution will require those same personalities to come together and commit to a plan for nonviolent political continuity.
A deal was on the table -- one the White House and House leaders never planned to give in on -- and this was the time to see how many of the conservative, and proudly intransigent, members it would bring aboard.
A lot of balancing is needed among Bruckner's thickly layered textures to make everything speak: more than can comfortably be done in a couple of days of rehearsals, especially in acoustics as intransigent as those of David Geffen Hall.
The election of President Emmanuel Macron has provided an opening for Paris to re-examine its Syria policy, with the view that the previous government's stance that Assad must step down was too intransigent and an obstacle to peacemaking.
However, Di Maio struck a seemingly intransigent line following an initial round of talks with Conte, saying the PD would have to back an array of policies if it wanted to govern — including measures the group has already denounced.
These elections became a chance for Mayor Sanders to go directly to the voters and ask them to replace these intransigent members of the board of aldermen with people who are friendly to him and supportive of his ideas.
But the deal may be seen by Xi Jinping, China's top leader, and his hard-line supporters as vindication of the intransigent stance they have taken since the spring, when a previous pact struck by Chinese moderates fell apart.
It was a stunning setback for the president and for Mr. Kushner, who had told colleagues that public opinion would move to their side and that Speaker Nancy Pelosi would emerge as the one who looked unreasonable and intransigent.
Trump, meanwhile, is shown repeatedly threatening the jobs of those he deemed intransigent, fostering a culture of paranoia in the White House that led multiple aides to adopt the practice of taking contemporaneous notes to better recollect encounters later on.
Tensions were expected to come to a head at Monday's meeting as government representatives on the board appeared to be ready to turn up the heat on Patel and accuse the RBI of being intransigent in the face of government demands.
For too long, those willing to fix problems have been hamstrung by a minority of intransigent members of both parties—ideologues enthralled by the notion that if they just say no to any compromise they'll eventually get what they want.
Grassroots ideas that are generally rejected by the current establishment — like balancing the budget, returning education to local control, or even defunding abortion providers like Planned Parenthood — would no longer be squashed by intransigent lifers with outsized power and little accountability.
To many, it was a perfect example of how Democrats and Republicans, both with seemingly intransigent policy principles — though both sides acknowledged the human rights violations of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro — could work together for the good of America.
Unfortunately, what will then ensue is a massive ad-tech and social media echo chamber — copied, pasted, repackaged amalgams of the same intransigent formulas from a playbook that's been dusted off, recycled and sold for more than it was initially worth.
Why it matters: While hard to imagine, watch for President Trump specifically — and politics generally — to take on an even harsher, intransigent tone, with implicit and explicit us-vs-them undertones of race, gender and what it means to be American.
"It is extraordinarily frustrating for those of us in the business community who supported him that he has chosen to be intransigent about something it seems as if he doesn't really understand," said Timi Soleye, president of CRYO Gas and Power.
His inflammatory rhetoric, mean-spirited "fighting back" and failure to find national common ground has led to the #Resistance colliding squarely with #MAGA in ugly eruptions on social media and in zealous counterprotesters confronting intransigent protesters in a city near you.
This means they attract charlatans, lunatics, frauds, and false prophets, and furious battles are waged over doctrinal hairsplitting; but it also means they inspire intransigent beliefs which can, and do, unify many thousands of wildly different people across continents and time zones.
British Prime Minister Theresa May suffered an embarrassing defeat by lawmakers Thursday in a vote that left her bid to secure a European Union divorce deal stuck between an intransigent EU and a resistant U.K. Parliament — with Brexit just six weeks away.
Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama has remained tight-lipped on his strategy for overcoming an intransigent Congress and seeing his Supreme Court nominee confirmed, but his aides and allies have already begun describing in broad contours what they're looking for in a candidate.
Through the conservative uproar that met this racial and cultural interloper, via the increasingly intransigent and combative Republican Congress, and the vitriolic outpourings of the Tea Party, conservative talk radio, and the Murdoch empire, something new emerged clearly for the first time.
Outrage over the violence and rhetoric of these men buries an equally important and certainly more intransigent story of longstanding grass-roots and national campaigns populated partly by white women who aim to maintain racial and economic inequities on the American landscape.
Every difficulty she faced for the following two years—intransigent coalition partners who held up negotiations, rebellious colleagues who tried to oust her, and crucial votes which came up short—could be traced at least in part to the failure of that election.
He must have been full of hatred as a 17-year-old wandering through Kazan, hatred of the czar who had executed his brother, and it is not hard to imagine this personal hatred making him all the more steely and intransigent.
And he was quick to invoke his relationship with Mr. Hurd, to deflect attacks from Mr. Cruz that he was too far left for Texas, and to burnish his self-styled standing as a high-minded antidote to the Capitol's seemingly intransigent partisanship.
After years of working abroad and domestically on some of our most thorny and intransigent foreign policy issues — in Seoul, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and the United Nations in New York City — there is one thing I know: The world is a messy place.
Since the Tea Party wave of 2010 that swept House Republicans into power, a raucous, intransigent and loosely aligned group of lawmakers known as the Freedom Caucus — most from heavily Republican districts — has often landed a punch to its own party's face.
It also saw minor parties and independents become even more powerful, making it less likely Turnbull will be able to push his reformist economic agenda, which includes a A$50 billion ($37.6 billion) corporate tax break over 10 years, through an intransigent upper house.
The production, directed by Marianne Elliott, who developed the project in London for the National Theatre before bringing it to Broadway, offers a lens into gayness in the dimension of history — what is intransigent, what is still promissory, and what is so profoundly disappointing.
Over the course of nearly 26 tweets from his personal account, Trump has birthed new conspiracy theories (and with them further congressional inquiries), escalated a confrontation with the judiciary and sought to wield the power of his office against intransigent legislators on Capitol Hill.
Frontman Patrick Stickles anticipated the "new normal" that emerged once the shock of the inauguration wore off, seeing through Obama's impossible promises of comity and predicting an endless future of the right encroaching on common decency, whether it's intransigent Republicans or just Barstool bros.
The Chinese authorities probably did want to present a friendlier face, having appalled many Taiwanese with their intransigent response to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and with their ongoing efforts to win over the few remaining countries that have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
In it, Bagnai described the euro as "an economic monster" and German chancellor Angela Merkel "as intransigent as a League member" for advocating austerity for recession-hit European countries during the global financial crisis rather than letting them spend more to support internal demand.
Edmund Wilson, in " Patriotic Gore " (21955), his book on the literature of the Civil War, describes Tourgée as "an obstinate man, physically and morally courageous, with bad judgment in practical matters and possessed by an intransigent idealism," and Luxenberg's portrait is much the same.
Mr. Erdogan became even more intransigent about the peace process after my party, the Peoples' Democratic Party, or H.D.P., which advocates for Kurdish rights, cleared for the first time a 10 percent threshold in parliamentary elections in June 2015 and gained entry to the Parliament.
In the classic children's book "Bread and Jam for Frances," an intransigent little badger refuses to eat anything but bread and jam — until, of course, she sees what is possible, and at last relishes a lobster-salad sandwich on thin slices of white bread.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had the law largely on his side, but Barcelona now has the television images and the solidarity and sympathy they generate, leaving the prime minister looking like an intransigent bully and rendering any possible political resolution of the conflict more remote.
But others believe that the intransigent and unchanging one in the relationship is the United States — that the country has never gotten past the idea that it "won" the Cold War and therefore needs to spread, at all costs, the American way of life.
But while an epiphany almost certainly isn't in the cards, it's not out of the question that post-Trump congressional Republicans would decide that they were too intransigent on the specific grand bargain question and want to make a deal with a Biden administration.
Mr. Johnson needed either to bully Ireland into abandoning the so-called backstop, which protects the Good Friday Agreement and the European Union's single market, or to make Ireland look so intransigent that it could be blamed for pushing Britain into a no-deal Brexit.
As Mr. Booker now tells it, he was both enforcer and reformer from the first, seeking to drive down crime while transforming a department crippled by scarce resources and antique equipment, and shot through with a culture of brutality protected by an intransigent police union.
Trump's offer to Democrats over the weekend, and the bill that McConnell introduced Monday night, was an effort to shift the onus back on Democrats: to make them feel that it's now their job to make a counteroffer or else they'll be seen as the intransigent ones.
Of course, the Republicans, if pushed to extreme anger by an intransigent Democrat minority, could invoke the so called "nuclear option" and finally put a stake through the heart of the filibuster for all time by a simple majority vote on a question of parliamentary procedure.
Poverty, pride, shame, misogyny, and violence are here knotted, echoing the tangle of conflicts that plague our society, and that become more intransigent as they overlap, producing situations wherein a victim of one type of violence — class oppression – in turn becomes an executor of another — sexual violence.
The program, called Be Connected, represents a rare — and quiet — spot of bipartisan cooperation between congressional Democrats, who are highly critical of so much of the president's policy, and the Trump administration, which has moved aggressively to try to turn around the intransigent veteran suicide rate.
The subtext of the administration's message over the past few days has been that if Democrats don't support — or at least negotiate over — this offer, it will prove that they are truly the intransigent ones who refuse to make any deals with the other side for the public good.
You can imagine Yee's likeness at the Haw Par Villa theme park: an intransigent, internet-obsessed child who would not yield to authority, punished by being forced to cut his long hair, shut his big mouth, and languish in a cell with no phone, no computer, and no stimulation.
WASHINGTON — Facing intransigent Republican opposition, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on Tuesday delayed a vote on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, dealing another setback to Republicans' seven-year effort to dismantle the health law and setting up a long, heated summer of health care battles.
"That's why tonight I am saying I think ... he should just walk away from the table, proceed with the planned tariff hikes in a week and a half, and wait for the Chinese government to become less intransigent or until the elections in 2020 or both," he said.
To live in a state that includes three deserts and vast cities built in semiarid climes, a state where the intransigent politics of water are omnipresent, is to appreciate the wonder of a muddy desert wash and the profusion of color in a what is usually a brown landscape.
The first, offered by David Frum, Chris Cillizza and others, holds that Mitch McConnell and Co. would have been better served politically by pretending to consider an Obama nominee and then simply using a sixty-vote threshold to avoid approval, rather than coming across as baldly intransigent from day one.
Arlene Foster, the head of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party which supports May's government, welcomed May's tough stance against "disrespectful, intransigent and disgraceful" behaviour by the EU. She said her party would veto any attempt to introduce a new regulatory barrier between the region and the rest of the United Kingdom.
Mrs Merkel has long been sceptical about the sort of euro-zone integration demanded by France's Emmanuel Macron, cautious about grand plans to redesign the EU's border regime and intransigent on Brexit (pace London-based commentators, she was never on the verge of intervening to improve the terms on offer).
Now, 51 intransigent years later, you have Fred Thomas playing the organ in St. Paul's Hall in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire with a ten-microphone setup, each one strategically placed around the room to record a specific tone of the performance, each model of microphone chosen for that clearly defined purpose.
Worst of all — when you combine the Uncanny Social Valley Theory with the Intransigent Asshole Theory and the high-engagement outrage-machine algorithms, you get the situation where, even if only 3% of people actually are irredeemable assholes, a full 30% or more of them seem that way to us.
Arlene Foster, the head of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party which supports May's government, welcomed May's tough stance against "disrespectful, intransigent and disgraceful" behaviour by the EU. She said her party would veto any attempt to introduce a new regulatory barrier between the region and the rest of the United Kingdom.
As the sweeping health care reform bill took shape in early 2009, Pelosi confronted a landscape peopled with intransigent House Republicans, reluctant Blue Dogs, liberals demanding nothing less than a single-payer system, skittish White House advisers and Senate Democrats willing to waste months in quixotic pursuit of bipartisan cover.
With the plan facing a shaky future in the Senate and an intransigent president, some rank-and-file lawmakers in both parties are suggesting that a deal to revamp the nation's immigration laws, pairing border security and protections for some undocumented immigrants, may be the way out of the stalemate.
He brushed off the concern that running against Mr. Cuomo's lieutenant during the governor's own re-election year would jeopardize his future in politics, and contrasted his own reputation as a vocal and sometimes intransigent advocate for police reform and progressive housing policy with the sorts of positions taken in Albany.
It comes on the back of antagonistic messages from leaders, such as EU Council President Donald Tusk, who said last week the only options facing the U.K. were a "hard Brexit" or "no Brexit" and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker who affirmed the EU would be "intransigent" in its dealings with Britain.
"I think a new leader would not really resolve the current stalemate because it is likely that he or she will come from the more intransigent, euroskeptic side of the Tory party while the parliamentary arithmetic has not really changed," Silvia Dall'Angelo, senior economist at Hermes Investment Management, told CNBC Friday morning.
In this Mediterranean capital watched over by the still-kicking Vesuvius volcano, tourist numbers have more than doubled since 2010, crime has dropped (notably, the murder rate is down 44 percent in 2018 over the previous year, according to the Ministry of the Interior), and the intransigent piles of trash are far fewer.
Someone has missed a beat or a crucial note; there is a stumble, a teetering on the brink of collapse—but no time remains for such mistakes to be registered, as the final bars of "Death and the Maiden" loom before them, as majestic and intransigent as the closing of steel petals. Perfection!
And while some on Trump's team may look to blame the intransigent Freedom Caucus or Ryan's insistence in pushing a brand of conservative reform that seems an odd fit for Trump's ideological coalition, the President's team knows it must up its game and embrace a more inclusive, strategic approach in his next legislative fight.
And although the DUP is notoriously intransigent, the party must back down eventually, if only because it fears two things even more than a separate status for the province: a no-deal Brexit that would instantly impose a hard border, and a government collapse in Westminster that could propel Labour's Jeremy Corbyn to power.
So it's really important that the military and the police fight as hard as they can, because the weaker they fight, the more they defect, the more intimidated they are, the more brain drain that flows from Afghanistan, the stronger the Taliban is viewed and the more intransigent they will be in the negotiations.
Mr. Byford will take over an agency with a reputation for being intransigent and opaque and dominated by a political dynamic in which elected officials have used the Transportation Authority to serve their political priorities at the expense of focusing on the far less glamorous nuts and bolts needed to reliably operate an antiquated subway.
An odd confluence of circumstances — the elimination of the filibuster for judicial nominees followed by the 2014 midterms leading to an utterly intransigent GOP Senate majority — in President Barack Obama's second term means that a Clinton administration and a Democratic Senate will face an unusually large number of vacancies and have an unusually easy time filling them.
It is so much at the root of particular ideas that make this nation tick — intransigent patriarchy, manifest destiny, white settler ideology (which imagines the social world as a place of relentless competition for dominance and sees violence as the primary mediator among men vying for dominance) — that one could argue that the gun helped construct these ideologies.
In August 2011, when intransigent Republicans dug in on then-President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE's budget amid a European debt crisis, it resulted in the first-ever downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt.
"It's my hope this advertisement will be a wake-up call to the intransigent and ancient voices on the GOP Platform Committee that marriage equality is the law of the land, gay families are a part of the fabric of America, and LGBT Republicans have an important role to play in growing the Party," Angelo said in a statement.
The 14 killings that occurred amid the area's housing projects and rolling parks represented the most intransigent forms of urban violence at a time of historically low crime: a machete murder by a schizophrenic man, two domestic homicides, orchestrated hits on drug dealers, a party out of control, bullets that killed women they weren't meant for.
As delighted as Angela, the calm and well-loved "savior of the EU" may be, it's Wolfgang Schäuble, her finance minister and his intransigent, real-politik focus on "not spending one penny of German taxpayer monies" to bail out any other EU member, that Macron, with all his talk about banking union and integrative fiscal policies, is faced with sorting out.
"It's deeply disappointing that President Obama failed to use this opportunity to add the voice of another progressive woman of color to the Supreme Court, and instead put forward a nominee seemingly designed to appease intransigent Republicans rather than inspire the grassroots he'll need to get that nominee through the Senate gantlet," Democracy for America Executive Director Charles Chamberlain said in a statement.
What is less well known, at least on this side of the Atlantic, is that Rauschenberg's selection was confirmed at the last minute after intense lobbying from American members of the jury, including an intransigent Clement Greenberg, against the official French candidate, Roger Bissière (1886-1964), who was awarded a special mention — an honor that the jury never repeated afterwards.
In a recent PostEverything post, David Daley argued that gerrymandering is responsible for Congress's intransigent Freedom Caucus, which instigated a government shutdown a few years ago and helped scuttle the American Health Care Act last week: The 268 members of the Freedom Caucus represent such safe Republican districts that the only threat they fear is a primary challenge from a conservative further to their right.
"It's deeply disappointing that President Obama failed to use this opportunity to add the voice of another progressive woman of color to the Supreme Court, and instead put forward a nominee seemingly designed to appease intransigent Republicans rather than inspire the grass roots he'll need to get that nominee through the Senate gantlet," Charles Chamberlain, the executive director of the Democracy for America, said in a statement. .
But I am saying that seeming increasingly distant from the external consensus reality, being driven by intransigent and sometimes bewildering faith as much as rational analysis, and ongoing associations with a cloud of crazy scandal and hangers-on snake-oil salespeople — all of which would be catastrophic signs for, say, a traditional new startup — can actually be indicators of the strength, not weakness, of a strange new religion.

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