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- noun Unwillingness to change one's views or to
agree . - noun The state of being
intransigent .
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- noun the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise
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Examples
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It also commended Numsa members for continuing with the strike despite what it called the intransigence and arrogance of employers.
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On Capitol Hill, Democrats seized on the Fed chairman's remarks to criticize Republicans for what they described as intransigence during the debt ceiling negotiations.
NYT > Home Page By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM 2011
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The intransigence is all from the right - so much for bipartisanship.
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As James Fallows of The Atlantic put it so accurately, Netanyahu is the "Dick Cheney of Israel," characterizing the former vice president as someone who, "mistook short-term intransigence for long-term strategic wisdom, seemed blind and tone-deaf to the 'moral' and 'soft power' components of influence, profited from a polarized and fearful political climate, and attempted to command rather than earn support from allies and potential adversaries."
Stephen Zunes: Netanyahu's Speech and the Democrats' Dangerous Embrace of Extremism Stephen Zunes 2011
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March 22nd, 2010 at 7: 31 pm tombaker says: perserverance can be admirable. intransigence is counterproductive (and irritating).
Think Progress » Democratic Offices Vandalized In Days Surrounding Health Care Vote 2010
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As James Fallows of The Atlantic put it so accurately, Netanyahu is the "Dick Cheney of Israel," characterizing the former vice president as someone who, "mistook short-term intransigence for long-term strategic wisdom, seemed blind and tone-deaf to the 'moral' and 'soft power' components of influence, profited from a polarized and fearful political climate, and attempted to command rather than earn support from allies and potential adversaries."
Stephen Zunes: Netanyahu's Speech and the Democrats' Dangerous Embrace of Extremism Stephen Zunes 2011
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As James Fallows of The Atlantic put it so accurately, Netanyahu is the "Dick Cheney of Israel," characterizing the former vice president as someone who, "mistook short-term intransigence for long-term strategic wisdom, seemed blind and tone-deaf to the 'moral' and 'soft power' components of influence, profited from a polarized and fearful political climate, and attempted to command rather than earn support from allies and potential adversaries."
Stephen Zunes: Netanyahu's Speech and the Democrats' Dangerous Embrace of Extremism Stephen Zunes 2011
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As James Fallows of The Atlantic put it so accurately, Netanyahu is the "Dick Cheney of Israel," characterizing the former vice president as someone who, "mistook short-term intransigence for long-term strategic wisdom, seemed blind and tone-deaf to the 'moral' and 'soft power' components of influence, profited from a polarized and fearful political climate, and attempted to command rather than earn support from allies and potential adversaries."
Stephen Zunes: Netanyahu's Speech and the Democrats' Dangerous Embrace of Extremism Stephen Zunes 2011
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As James Fallows of The Atlantic put it so accurately, Netanyahu is the "Dick Cheney of Israel," characterizing the former vice president as someone who, "mistook short-term intransigence for long-term strategic wisdom, seemed blind and tone-deaf to the 'moral' and 'soft power' components of influence, profited from a polarized and fearful political climate, and attempted to command rather than earn support from allies and potential adversaries."
Stephen Zunes: Netanyahu's Speech and the Democrats' Dangerous Embrace of Extremism Stephen Zunes 2011
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As James Fallows of The Atlantic put it so accurately, Netanyahu is the "Dick Cheney of Israel," characterizing the former vice president as someone who, "mistook short-term intransigence for long-term strategic wisdom, seemed blind and tone-deaf to the 'moral' and 'soft power' components of influence, profited from a polarized and fearful political climate, and attempted to command rather than earn support from allies and potential adversaries."
Stephen Zunes: Netanyahu's Speech and the Democrats' Dangerous Embrace of Extremism Stephen Zunes 2011
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Words with the same meaning
- adamantness
- dourness
- firmness
- flintiness
- grimness
- hard-bittenness
- hard-nosedness
- immovability
- immutability
- implacability
- impliability
- inelasticity
- inexorability
- inflexibility
- intransigeance
- intransigency
- intransigentism
- irreconcilability
- obduracy
- relentlessness
- rigidity
- rigorism
- steeliness
- sternness
- stiff temper
- stiffness
- toughness
- unalterability
- unbendingness
- unchangeability
- uncompromisingness
- ungivingness
- unrelentingness
- unyieldingness
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