How to Use intransigent in a Sentence

intransigent

adjective
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  • He has remained intransigent in his opposition to the proposal.
  • But truck drivers are also the most intransigent lovers of oil and gas.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 22 May 2021
  • The leaders of the two countries are both hasty, intransigent, and not very well informed about the other side’s goals.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • As a result, some of the more intransigent managers have run into a whole host of issues.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • But a law that would please Trump, Jeff Sessions, and the more intransigent members of his own party could hurt Ryan, who’s up for re-election next year.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Normally this would be found in the law and the courts but, when faced with severe and intransigent injustice, resistance is that recourse.
    — TheWeek, 12 Apr. 2020
  • But poor weather as well as intransigent Russian authorities have stood in the way of getting the counting done.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2015
  • The city bureaucracy, tangled up in its own red tape, is intransigent in granting waivers.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 17 June 2021
  • When members of some more intransigent sects pelted the soldiers with rocks and eggs, they were forcefully restrained by members of some of the more moderate sects.
    — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
  • This would allow an intransigent senator could push final passage of the one-week bill into the weekend.
    — Mike Debonis, Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Today, those shouts have only become louder and more widespread, and the regime’s response more intransigent.
    — Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Cartoon by Karl Stevens Even at his most intransigent, Zak welcomed debate.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • But on the other, a little less of the spotlight could help intransigent lawmakers come to terms on the thorniest legislative issue before them.
    — Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post, 18 May 2017
  • 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.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • His writ included the warring states of the former Yugoslavia, which were led by intransigent men waging a genocidal war.
    — Thomas Powers, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • In Montgomery, the civil-rights leader spoke of the intransigent optimism that had led activists to fight for change, in the face of skepticism about what could actually be achieved.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2022
  • 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.
    — Clio Chang, New Republic, 17 Oct. 2017
  • And the Chinese government has proved similarly intransigent in the face of Biden’s pressure.
    — Peter E. Harrell, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Doing so would also help combat a second, intransigent problem: Most people on boards are still white men.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The other band members were gracious and discreet, but enough was said to leave the impression of a faintly aristocratic Reed who was graceless and intransigent.
    — Ian Penman, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Others argue that hearts and minds would have proved more intransigent without their pyrotechnics.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Refusing to accept principled arguments about equal power will paint you as intransigent and may cost you the deal.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • The vociferous support from fellow skippers and against the intransigent rule is testament to that.
    — Jonquil Hackenberg, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • One of the most intransigent problems that all three researchers focused on was related to education: namely, what type of aid works best to improve schools in poor areas?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The creator of landmarks that take the form of flames, waves, fish, and twisting bodies, Frank Gehry seemed like the anti-Ike: self-aggrandizing, flamboyant, intransigent, and excessive.
    — Curbed, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The Catalan giants pursued the midfielder for the entirety of last summer's transfer window but were rebuffed by the Reds, who remained intransigent over their stance.
    — SI.com, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The Senate remains as intransigent as the National Football League.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Biden’s team did learn from Franklin Roosevelt, who also faced an intransigent predecessor, albeit not one who sought to overturn an election.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • 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.
    — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Poking holes in that fortress and forging portals of entry are prerequisites for treating many of the brain’s most intransigent and devastating ills.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2011

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