(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.
Tenacious
Definition:
(a.) Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
(a.) Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
(a.) Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
(a.) Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
(a.) Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
(a.) Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
Example Sentences:
(1) The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.
(2) RSL trying to get their own flowing passing game going now, but the Timbers looking tenacious in midfield to break it up.
(3) Another factor is the decline of caste, the tenacious Indian social hierarchy which still determines the status of hundreds of millions.
(4) A tenacious Anabaena epiphyte was also discovered inhabiting the surfaces of root nodules.
(5) His family belonged to the Ghanchi caste, low down on the tenacious social hierarchy that still often defines status in India, and had little money.
(6) Another facilitating factor which is discussed is that blowing the nose may catch tenacious mucus which has partly passed through the ostium by the ciliary activity in the sinus.
(7) Malta continued to defend tenaciously after half-time and Italy struggled to create openings, despite their overwhelming dominance.
(8) However, attempts to cultivate M phi for morphological and functional studies have often been compromised because M phi adhere rapidly and tenaciously to cultureware.
(9) The exudate, apparent as early as 48 hours after inoculation, drained from the cervix as a tenacious, mucopurulent discharge for several days, then rapidly disappeared.
(10) Thirty-four patients, 21 male and 13 female, with chronic asthma and tenacious mucoid expectoration were studied regarding clinical parameters, PEF, airway resistance and sputum viscosity measured according to the n.m.r.
(11) Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris, two tenacious solicitors, were followed around, together with their children.
(12) The cholla cacti are particularly tenacious in the manner in which the spines stay embedded in the skin.
(13) The action of complement is considered in terms of a more tenacious bond formed between effector and target cells.
(14) Two immunologically distinct proteins of 55 and 26 kd, which are tenaciously, but noncovalently associated with Oxytricha macronuclear DNA termini, have been purified.
(15) So they fought tenaciously, first over prices and then over privatisation.
(16) But the Justice Department attorney Ron Wiltsie, who impugned Xenakis’s credentials in tenacious cross-examination, said Dhiab had committed “five assaults since April 2014”.
(17) The observation that glucose phosphates bind to the Li+ complex of phosphoglucomutase some 900 times more tenaciously than to the corresponding Mg2+ complex could provide a partial rationale for the lack of reactivity of the Le+ form of the enzyme.
(18) "For rural areas, farmers, dalits (those at the bottom of India's tenacious social hierarchy), weak and the pained, this government is for them.
(19) [Small Talk, like the all-action investigative journalist that it is, tenaciously refuses to let the question go] And you're other half, she's an Irish pool international?
(20) Isis will then be reduced to what it once was: a very brutal and tenacious Iraqi militant organisation.