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Example sentences for "intransigent"

Lexicographically close words:
intracranial; intractable; intrados; intramural; intramuscular; intransitive; intrap; intrare; intraspecific; intrastate
  1. Orange himself was led by his followers into adopting an intransigent attitude, though he had not yet given up the hope of realizing union.

  2. His were merely good intentions that came to no avail in an intransigent world of changes.

  3. Its materialism is of the most intransigent character.

  4. One is tempted to say that there is no psychology in Brand--he is a mere incarnation of intransigent idealism--while Peer Gynt is as brilliant a psychological inspiration as Don Quixote.

  5. Becket, moreover, seems to feel some vague disquietude as to what may happen if he accepts the archbishopric; but there is nothing to show that he is conscious of any bias towards the intransigent clericalism of the later act.

  6. Yet this authority was precisely what he lacked in his new office, where his power was limited to only a general control over intransigent services that still insisted on their traditional autonomy.

  7. Yet it was Bulgaria's intransigent assertion of her claim to Central Macedonia which led to the war between the Allies.

  8. The Piedmontese clergy, more numerous in proportion to the population than in any state except Rome, were more intransigent than any ecclesiastical body in the world.

  9. Re-elected as a matter of course in 1856, Montt's second term was even more intransigent than his first.

  10. Although educated for the priesthood he had developed into an intransigent radical, a passionate advocate of the completest separation of Church and State.

  11. The intransigent majority refused to listen to a last eloquent appeal that Castelar made to their patriotism and common sense, and they passed a vote of censure.

  12. It doesn't bother you, my getting your help and then not protecting you from these intransigent tribesmen?

  13. There are intransigent tribesmen all through this territory.

  14. A year later I found Agoncillo of exactly the same intransigent persuasion.

  15. There were Filipinos of all classes, some in sympathy with the American cause, who were as loud in their denunciation of the proposed return of the friars as the most intransigent insurgents.

  16. By nature of a revolutionary spirit, the doctrines of these politicians fascinated him so far as to convert him into an intransigent opponent of Spanish rule in his native country.


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