(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.
Resolute
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.
(v. t. & i.) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
(v. t. & i.) Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand.
(n.) One who is resolute; hence, a desperado.
(n.) Redelivery; repayment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
(3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(4) The RNA polymerase activity was tested after the solubilization and chromatographic resolution of the three types of polymerases with exogenous template.
(5) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(6) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(7) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
(8) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(9) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(10) The probable reaction mechanisms prevailing in both cases are discussed in accordance with the low and high resolution mass spectral data presented.
(11) It is found that, whereas the spatial resolution achievable with such a system is only dependent upon its temporal resolution, the scattering characteristics of the tissue being imaged will strongly affect the ultimate imaging performance of such a system.
(12) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(13) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
(14) The model electron density map, calculated to a resolution of approximately 35 A, shows an unusually high protein content in the membranes.
(15) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(16) Analysis of Alu repeat polymorphism should be useful in construction of a high-resolution map and also in identifying genotypes of individuals for clinical and other purposes because the repeats are ubiquitous and the technique for their detection is simple.
(17) The most controversial part of the resolution is the stop and search powers.
(18) For application to mammalian cells, however, two serious problems require resolution: (1), correction of TPP+ binding to intracellular constituents and (2), estimation of the considerable TPP+ accumulation in mitochondria.
(19) Two high-resolution (Hi-Res) ECG systems (MAC-12, Marquette Electronics, Inc (MEI), Milwaukee, WI and LVP101, Arrhythmia Research Technology (ART), Austin, TX) were tested on 143 subjects (13 controls and 130 cardiac patients, 21 of whom were tested for inducible ventricular tachycardia [VT]).
(20) The spatial resolution of a NaI(T1), 25 mm thick bar detector designed for use in positron emission tomography has been studied.