(1) Updated at 1.58pm BST 12.43pm BST Sir Malcolm Bruce, MP for Gordon, says there has been "a degree of intransigence" on both sides at Grangemouth, leading to today's closure.
(2) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(3) In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan.
(4) Physicians have generally remained passive or intransigent as the society in which they function attempts to compensate for the indeterminate nature of these clinical questions.
(5) The original deadline for reaching a deal passed at 4pm with both major parties - the Democratic Unionist party and Sinn Féin - accusing each other of intransigence at the negotiations leading to this latest deadlock.
(6) It is not necessarily indicative of intransigence but rather should be seen as part of any process of adaptation to changes which might undermine the validity of past systems of understanding the world in which we live.
(7) Have they shamed intransigent foes into seeking a political solution?
(8) Second, this chart is based on current US budget plans: if Mitt Romney moves into the White House next January, or even if Barack Obama is re-elected and has to strike a bargain with intransigent Republicans, then Washington is also likely to make stringent cuts.
(9) It's true there's a limit to what a president can do about much of this and that Republican intransigence has not helped.
(10) A dispute is unnecessary and would only reinforce the image of unions as intransigent and out of touch.
(11) Decades of government intransigence over calls to liberalise the marijuana sector means that Jamaica is light years behind western Europe and the US in terms of establishing laboratory and research infrastructure, official distribution networks, finding merchants untainted by the criminal underworld, and an organised framework of governance.
(12) Antedating and outranking all those is the inherent tendency of the universal contractile chamber to rupture and spill its contents, especially when mural labors encounter sphincteric intransigence.
(13) It never would have passed the Republican-dominated House, which is running out of time to ignore its base in favor of intransigence – even 54% of Republicans said in a Memorial Day weekend poll that they want to see the minimum wage go up .
(14) On Monday Nicola Sturgeon stood in front of the same elegant Bute House fireplace where she had posed with Mrs May back in July and declared that the “brick wall of intransigence” over Brexit negotiations was forcing her to call a second independence vote.
(15) He is a hawk, fully signed up to Likud intransigence and a favourite of the settlers.
(16) 1Fabio Capello His tactics, selection and intransigence There were times in this tournament when one of the most decorated managers in the world game looked utterly helpless, baffled as he appeared by the sudden inadequacies he was witnessing out on the field.
(17) It reflects an intransigent mix of economic, social and cultural factors – family size and access to contraception, climate change, poor farming techniques, bad food as well as not enough of it, and limited access to productive land; and – as the return of hunger after the apparent triumph of the 1970s green revolution shows – it is also to do with the limitations and unintended consequences of science.
(18) But it is probably a necessary compromise in order to allow EU members like the UK, Spain and the Netherlands - who do want to move forwards on biotech research - to do so without being held back forever by the intransigents.
(19) In November the international investigation into the downing of MH17 was extended by nine months, after the Dutch-led efforts to find out who shot down the passenger plane were hampered by the ongoing civil war and Russian intransigence.
(20) He blames that on a disparate list including the "intransigent" epidemic of obesity that can be both a cause of and effect of depression, addictive behaviours, the changing roles in male-female relationships and the increasing sexualisation of young people, especially girls.
(1) Conclusion In this case there has always been and, despite the efforts of the prosecution team to resolve issues, there remains an irreconcilable conflict between Dr Patel on the one hand and the other experts on the other as to the cause of death.
(2) "The irony of welcoming to the London 2012 Olympic Games an individual who is alleged to have led an organised and brutal repression of athletes because they peacefully exercised their internationally recognised right to freedom of expression and association during Bahrain's Arab Spring would be a blow to all athletes around the world, and irreconcilable with the UK commitment to human rights and claimed support to peaceful pro-democracy movements," the ECCHR said.
(3) In the News Corp report , Rafter said the rift with Tomic remained deep and possibly irreconcilable after his dumping from Australia’s Davis Cup team over his Wimbledon post-match outburst.
(4) As the documents reveal, there are now “irreconcilable” differences between the European Union’s and America’s positions.
(5) Valls himself has long referred to what he called two “irreconcilable” wings of the party.
(6) The overall outcome from the different viewpoints has been almost irreconcilable contradiction.
(7) "The reason for your involuntary separation of employment was based upon on irreconcilable conflict between the laws, discipline, and teaching of the Catholic Church and your relationship – formalized by an act of marriage in Iowa – to a person of the same sex," the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph said in its letter of dismissal.
(8) Senior Liberal Democrats are already jockeying for position to replace Tim Farron, after he stepped down as party leader, citing an irreconcilable conflict between his deeply held Christian beliefs and political leadership.
(9) For those who do not accept this necessity, I contend that it is necessary metatheoretically, in order to deal with those moral agents with irreconcilably different notions of the morally good.
(10) Those who are already notionally opposed to Abbott, Pearson and Mundine on these issues, and many more besides, will be permanently irreconcilable on any initiative, symbolic or practical, that Abbott now proposes in the Indigenous space.
(11) After discussing conflicts of obligation, it is asserted that loyalties are divided only when the demands of the various relationships involved are irreconcilable.
(12) If the UK returns to a system of bilateral arrangements with EU countries, we may find ourselves once again exporting criminals to Spain, like we did before the EAW came into force, because of irreconcilable differences between our criminal justice systems.
(13) I appreciate that simultaneously being London's mayor and serving as Conservative leader are apparently irreconcilable (though there is certainly no difficulty about being the mayor while also sitting as an MP).
(14) So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly irreconcilable truths that war is sometimes necessary, and war is at some level an expression of human feelings.
(15) In the case of Ladele against Islington council we have a clash of two irreconcilable moral frameworks: one that sees human worth and dignity derived from God and one derives them from the nature of humanity.
(16) Indeed, even Miliband’s most irreconcilable critics are clear why they should avoid plotting of the non-lethal variety.
(17) If inter-agency differences are irreconcilable, as a last resort CEQ can submit the referral and its response together with its recommendation to the President for action.
(18) And Oliver Cromwell’s inclusion, which part of me approves of and another part cannot stomach, arouses irreconcilable passions too.
(19) "There's an attempt among this section of the political class to try to find a balance between what the powers-that-be will accept and what the square will accept, but the reality is that those two things are completely irreconcilable."
(20) "China's recent behaviour, as demonstrated by its advance into the surrounding waters … is irreconcilable with the existing order in many ways."