Sentences with phrase «intransigence as»

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].

The Bush approach, ably supported by the Howard government, was to encourage the most intransigent elements in the Chinese government to resist any movement on climate policy, then point to that intransigence as an excuse for US (and Australian) inaction.

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.

Not exact matches

Cloud promoters are underestimating financial and logistical barriers, he says, as well as the intransigence of human nature.

The audience nodded as Lough discussed Churchill's intransigence and his consequent financial woes, as well as his resilience in coming back from multiple financial crises.

They feel that they can avoid the subjective trendiness of «60s liberal Protestant activism, as well as the discouragement that resulted from the intransigence of the problems the liberals faced.

When those same people latch onto all other aspects of religion as well: megalomania, domination, «moral» intransigence.

So it may just be a personal peccadillo that I find «patient endurance» in Revelation 1:9 unendurably bland, preferring something guttier, like «iron intransigence» or «resolute resistance,» or «firmeza permanente,» as the Brazilians like to put it.

The return to ancient faith and practice is increasingly seen as a way forward in churches polarized by worship wars and theological intransigence.

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.

On this path Russia is ready to sacrifice Smirnov, as a person who undermines Russia's quest for leadership with his intransigence.

Thanks to their intransigence, New York state will be getting the treatment it deserves as a high - spending state.

Unfortunately, as we undertook the painful austerity measures I have described, all we heard from the leadership of our State's public employee unions was alarmist rhetoric, intransigence and excuses.

Their intransigence left Investigative Post little choice but to take Fort Schuyler to court, which we did on May 18 when we filed what's known as an Article 78 petition.

SeekingArrangment.com, which bills itself as «the world's largest sugar daddy dating website,» says it has seen a 50 percent jump in average daily sign - ups since last Sunday, just before congressional intransigence forced the federal government to stop fully functioning.

Afterimage: The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda's final film, and one of his best, features a towering performance by Boguslaw Linda as a real - life Polish avant - garde artist suffering for his intransigence under Communism.

In All the Money in the World, director Ridley Scott's bizarre take on this story, Getty is the villain, while the kidnappers are simply dutiful professionals tasked with carrying out their unfortunate mission as best they can despite Getty's intransigence about paying them ransom.

«As these efforts suggest, educational policymaking in California has not been a tale of intransigence.

Yet these reform issues have moved to the mainstream as even the Democrats, traditionally labor's biggest allies, have gotten fed up with union intransigence to structural changes to improve America's schools.

While the decline in our schools stems from a number of sources, most reformers — including Secretary Duncan — see the intransigence of unions on the «job for life» rules that perpetuate mediocre teaching as a major roadblock to progress.

As for Europe, any kind of positive 2014 return (however small) was a pleasant & surprising blessing in the face of continued German intransigence & ECB inaction.

As I do, I find myself wrestling with Twombly's sensuous intransigence.

«Her books, scrolls, and codices seem selected as vehicles to figure something as elusive as the opacity of narrative and the intransigence of time».

In this next election, we need to decide whether we are going to build on the successes of the Obama administration — which has used a combination of bold executive actions and international diplomacy to achieve action on climate change even in the presence of intransigence, denial and outright hostility from congressional republicans — or whether we are going to retreat back into the energy - equivalent of the stone age, continuing to degrade our planet through the profligate burning of increasingly dangerous fossil carbon even as the rest of the world moves forward, embracing the renewable energy revolution destined to be the hallmark of the 21st century.

I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with who Nordhaus is, but his review reads as being a case of emotiveness and intransigence or skim - reading dressed up in academic - speak.

Calling for a carbon tax on polluters could, feasibly, even become a political winner (the Yale study also finds astonishingly high support for regulating CO2 as a pollutant), as anger percolates at the GOP's intransigence to raising taxes even on the wealthy and corporations.

When we first launched the Cyberjustice Laboratory project, back in 2010, we submitted the hypothesis that the reason the legal system had not embraced technology had nothing to do with the availability of technological solutions to our problems, nor was this caused by legal intransigence since laws can always be changed (as was the case in Quebec back in 2001 regarding signatures).

One is only limited by one's imagination (or intransigence) as to how to create a model that works better than the traditional model.