How to Use intransigence in a Sentence

intransigence

noun
  • In part, the lack of progress stems from the intransigence of the two sides.
    — Asher Orkaby, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2023
  • Dunk’s intransigence can’t last, of course.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Aren’t some kinds of black intransigence also helping to bring it on?
    — Norman Mailer, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
  • Instead, the courts are dealing with intransigence from the city.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
  • That wasn't to be, in large part because of the intransigence of some of those tea party members.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
  • If that intransigence lasts, Phase 1 could keep setting trade rules for years to come.
    — Keith Bradsher, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • But now Morgan seemed to be the only one who could end the coal barons’ intransigence.
    — Susan Berfield, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
  • All failed, torpedoed by the intransigence of one side or the other.
    — Ivan Nechepurenko Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Dench is not amused by the streaming service’s intransigence.
    — Lynn Elber, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Philonise Floyd urged Congress to cut through its intransigence.
    — Washington Post, 25 May 2021
  • Pre-deal, excess belief bias can lead to intransigence, even in the face of counter-evidence.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • To be fair, largely through Chinese intransigence, but the result is the same.
    — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Naranjo says people at great odds finally see there’s more to gain from letting go of their intransigence.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • There is no reason, besides intransigence, that City Hall can’t do the same.
    — Kate Callen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • For those who challenge Biden’s intransigence, the question is, can it be overcome?
    — Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • The intransigence of such zero-sum disputes is a reminder of why win-win fantasies are so attractive in the first place.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • The tragic result was that the immigrants were victims of their own intransigence.
    — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2021
  • 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
  • The intransigence could add to House Democrats’ legal workload.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • But the politics are tricky, and in the world of lobbying, there’s plenty of money in intransigence.
    — Haley Sweetland Edwards, Time, 22 May 2018
  • In his lecture Roberts took on Churchill’s critics with his usual intransigence.
    — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Hamas’s intransigence is placing the cease-fire under untenable strain.
    — Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • After more than 70 years of intransigence, one of the most stubborn numbers in math has finally budged.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Each side spent much of 2023 accusing the other of intransigence.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • That’s not what happened, in part of because of drama, scandal and the total commitment to intransigence among Democrats.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 May 2017

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