• Certainly, he has had little incentive to moderate his intransigence as long as he believed sanctions would stay in force no matter what he did.

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  • His intransigence seems only to be increasing his popularity.

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  • Then, finding no international support for his intransigence, he decided to reshuffle the deck: start a war that might give him the upper hand--a war that would bring enough international pressure on Israel to enable him to dictate terms.

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  • Her frustration with him and his intransigence welled up and she was thinking of leaving, letting him lie in his own mess until the orderly arrived, when she noticed that his eyes were not simply closed but squeezed shut, like those of a child playing hide-and-seek.

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  • His work was hardly recognized when he was alive, partly due to his own intransigence in presenting it inappropriately, but also due to the rigid mindset of the time, which refused to see its genius.

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  • Mr Bush might well either get his judges or use the Democrats' intransigence as ammunition to push the Republicans up to 60 seats next year.

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  • The intransigence was both a function of his strength and a contributor to it.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • But if the plan ultimately founders on Greek rather than Turkish intransigence, Mr Erdogan will at least have boosted his European credentials and taken a step closer to Brussels.

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  • But if there is something which Tolkien and his company could offer us by way of insight it is this: the intransigence and persistence of human evil.

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