intransigence

intransigent | American Dictionary

intransigent
adjective
 fmlus/ɪnˈtræn·sɪ·dʒənt, -zɪ-/
refusing to change an opinion:
He was a man of strong views and intransigent positions.

Examples of intransigent

intransigent
Blocked, the head prefect had apologized to the intransigent, and accepted the status quo.
In fact, the groups' respective positions have become more extreme and intransigent.
Since then, moreover, business has presented a uniformly intransigent posture toward additional efforts aimed at strengthening the rights, organisational power and income share of labour.
He has also taken the opportunity to question a few intransigent beliefs such as the cost to the many of the convenience of the few.
Some of these expectations are relatively intransigent to intellectual correction.
In other cases the child might be intransigent and remain obstinately opposed to rehabilitation.
More discussion of the intransigent ' internal underlying deficits ' would have been welcome.
Formerly intransigent customs and border patrol agencies were later combined and then separated into border security and enforcement divisions.
The standard claims assert that the court condemned people on the basis of spectral appearance alone, and that it targeted those intransigent prisoners who maintained their innocence.
Jacobin extremists and intransigent royalists fought one another and the government in towns and villages across the country.
The remarkable transformation of provincial hospital commissions from intransigent defenders of localism before the war to advocates of regional and national reform is unthinkable without the war experience.
As such, the intransigent moral reasoning behind the parents' views had to be met not merely by counter-moral argument, but by the unequivocal, juridical power of the law.
Woolworth's managers were among the most intransigent.
As far as concerns the structural funds, some of the major beneficiaries have already staked out an intransigent position and hostages have been taken.
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