Sentences with word «intransigence»

But after years of American intransigence on global warming, Mr. Markey said he thought China would be influenced by the Obama administration's commitment to the issue.

For its part, the Move NY plan is the first congestion pricing proposal to win substantial support since former mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal crashed on the shoals of Assembly intransigence in 2008.

Republican Representative Paul Ryan's latest budget cuts Medicare spending 50 % and Medicaid spending 75 % to pay for a 12.5 % tax break for millionaires; Republican intransigence on raising revenue to lower the deficit will trigger irresponsible cuts to our defense budget; and Republicans want to strip women of the ability to make health care choices for themselves.»

You don't need to have a science qualification at all to know that there is something wrong with intransigence.

How China's leadership reacts to these calls for change will determine whether it will continue its phenomenal «rise» or be hampered by intransigence.

Today there was more criticism of German intransigence as Mario Draghi was pushing back against criticisms from Wolfgang Schaeuble that ECB policy was igniting the fire of the radical right.

The tribunal highlighted union intransigence as one major reason for this and quoted Mr Albon, the HR director, as comparing this to «the disagreeable sprouts [being] constantly pushed to the side of the plate» [para 30].

He's now 76 years old and still focused on purging the parasite - driven illness from the two countries, Ethiopia and Chad, where transmission persists — a task to which he's bringing both a mastery of public health and a lifetime's worth of understanding political intransigence and apathy.

In their ideological certainty, the Times and its allies assume a don't - give - an - inch intransigence about «women's reproductive rights» that brooks absolutely no dissent.

But even though iconoclasm in the material sphere was the characteristic act of Christian intransigence at the beginning of the Church's history, at the time of the monks of the Egyptian desert in the fourth century, and in the Reformation, it no longer seems to concern us much.

White liberals who might once have joined this observer in being exasperated by such intransigence now took it to be their duty to go to almost any lengths to react «constructively.»

Talk of Shanghai makes her nervous and her father's intransigence brings out a sullen, rebellious streak.

Even though technically that would suggest there should be talks on sovereignty, given British intransigence it translates into acceptance of the status quo.

It will put on display Tory intransigence in arbitrarily imposing an unjust settlement and then goading the unions to strike against it.

Nine states have such programs, but their implementation has been blocked by DEA bureaucratic intransigence.

The upcoming summit will test the rest of the world's resolve to implement the Paris Agreement in the face of U.S. intransigence.

Why reward intransigence?

Some see in him courage in the face of a corrupt, brutal modernity; others see intransigence and incomprehension.

And so, it was perhaps not the best time for reports to emerge that Petraeus had blamed Israeli intransigence toward the Palestinians for endangering the lives of American servicemen in the Middle East — at a reported Pentagon briefing early in March and again in congressional testimony on March 16.

So far No 10 and No 11 have chosen to manage this backlash with stubborn intransigence, a tactic that's always a blunder when common sense suggests you're going to have to back down in the end.

Fox's intransigence simply pushed U.K. producers to use various CinemaScope clones that, combined with black - and - white film, achieved a mix of novelty and economy.

This scientific pie fight, characterized by juvenile name - calling, ignoble tactics, and intellectual intransigence on both sides, not only left the public confused and scared.

Now the idea is dead, reflecting the same Bush Administration intransigence on display in the leadup to the G8 meetings.

Nor can my own intransigence change that other position, the eternal one, if it is valid: God, if He wants me, will have me despite my protests.

Examples of Conrad Black's intransigence abound.

That's a significant move for the Facebook founder, given his past intransigence on the subject.

There was more behind Rossetto's apparent intransigence than ego.

In response to criticism that the IMF has failed to tackle intransigence in European capitals against a further debt write - off, a senior IMF official said: «We are asking the Greeks to do very difficult things.

The unstated reason for policy intransigence in the face of reality is that much of the Greek sovereign debt was owed to important financial institutions, including major banks.

Because of this peculiar intransigence in the plumbing of the psyche, Auden's comic expression of his moral vision is important.

What it must see is that it has not been able to show with sufficient intransigence, rigor, absoluteness, holiness, and separateness, how different God is.

Humanae Vitae's intransigence sustains us in our overall struggle against the dictatorship of relativism.

Deliberately, I have emphasised the intellectual as well as the political force of neoliberalism, in other words, its energy and its theoretical intransigence, its dynamism that at the moment is not exhausted.

He encouraged lay Catholics, who were as uninterested in progressive accommodationism as they were put off by Lefebvrist intransigence, to participate in public debates.

Mattox thinks the problem lies with the ELCA: «There is an institutional intransigence, I believe, on our Lutheran side, and a cultural captivity to hyper - Protestant ways of understanding the church that stymies even the best efforts to overcome the visible breach of the sixteenth century.»