How to Use intransigence in a Sentence

intransigence

noun
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  • In part, the lack of progress stems from the intransigence of the two sides.
    — Asher Orkaby, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2023
  • But now Morgan seemed to be the only one who could end the coal barons’ intransigence.
    — Susan Berfield, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
  • If that intransigence lasts, Phase 1 could keep setting trade rules for years to come.
    — Keith Bradsher, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • The party is left mulling the way forward, given the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2022
  • To be fair, largely through Chinese intransigence, but the result is the same.
    — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2022
  • That hope, along with fury at the intransigence of their president, is what drew thousands out to the streets Thursday.
    — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Napoleon was surprised about the pope’s intransigence, as both Protestants and Jews had agreed to abide by Napoleon’s vision, which placed the state at the center of things.
    — Zenger News, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Use that, and your five-year lead time, to be thoughtful and proactive about what your husband’s intransigence means — and doesn’t mean — for you.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • All failed, torpedoed by the intransigence of one side or the other.
    — Ivan Nechepurenko Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • With the naming of Anchorage, the Postal Service’s intransigence won the day.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2021
  • On balance, this is a win for Comer, who stuck to his guns and overcame FBI intransigence.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 2 June 2023
  • Philonise Floyd urged Congress to cut through its intransigence.
    — Washington Post, 25 May 2021
  • The intransigence could add to House Democrats’ legal workload.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Both sides blame each other for intransigence, though there is a shared sense that none of the parties were properly prepared.
    — CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The intransigence of that trope makes the new wave of depictions all the more important to reducing stigma.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Xi’s intransigence in recent months has added fuel to the protesters’ fire and threatened his grip on the party.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Dench is not amused by the streaming service’s intransigence.
    — Lynn Elber, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • After more than 70 years of intransigence, one of the most stubborn numbers in math has finally budged.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Nov. 2020
  • And, yes, some of their intransigence sounds like defiance.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Curbed, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The tragic result was that the immigrants were victims of their own intransigence.
    — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2021
  • This intransigence has helped India catch up with the United States in terms of total infections.
    — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • But Democrats couldn’t blame Republican intransigence for the missteps that soured the public on the party in power.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Republicans’ intransigence would leave them on the hook for all the chaos in the financial markets that a debt ceiling breach would unleash.
    — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Adams warned Hutchinson of the price of his intransigence: The Massachusetts towns would descend on Boston.
    — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The race needed a serious overhaul, and the BAA’s continued intransigence on prize money did not bode well for the future.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In his lecture Roberts took on Churchill’s critics with his usual intransigence.
    — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The reader is never provided with a clear sense of how many Loyalists there were, how many of them took up arms, and how effective their intransigence was for the British cause.
    — David Holahan, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Hong Kong protests, Taiwan's intransigence, and the global demand to probe its role in the coronavirus pandemic have also added to its woes.
    — CNN, 4 June 2020
  • To a large degree, his unwillingness to bend, his intransigence are willed.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • So their intransigence -- and their willingness to use their new power in the House -- is understandable.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021

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