Sentences with phrase «intransigence at»

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.

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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.

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.

at variance with those of St. Thomas Aquinas is not a mark of Catholic orthodoxy - it is a mark of misplaced intransigence.

The Association of British Insurers, frustrated by government intransigence have published the location of 200,000 homes at most extreme flood risk, and least likely to get assistance if this government doesn't get a grip.

The debate over the county settlement reignited this week, when Cuomo at an MWBE forum criticized Astorino's intransigence, saying it has cost the county money in the form of withheld grants.

The complexity and intransigence of US carriers leaves us with no other workable solution at present.

During moments of frustration with the district's intransigence, I would sometimes say to the courageous disability advocate lawyers representing the plaintiffs that I had a tough time figuring out how students and their parents benefited from maintaining the district at its current size, and that breaking it up into smaller units would better serve students» interests.

So - called «late work» is often the most radical and the most mysterious art of its time, quite at odds with contemporary voices, and we have come to relish it for just this intransigence and non-conformity.

Ahead of its AGM on May 25, Shell has for the first time published a «below 2 ˚C scenario», yet analysis by Carbon Tracker on Shell's latest climate risk disclosures shows its continued intransigence to be at best disappointing and at worst stonewalling.

I go to some lengths to explain what I mean, and that what is at issue is his intransigence, his refusal or inability to take arguments in front of him at face value, and his lack of self - awareness.

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.