He is dispassionately and intransigently fact-centered. From Wordnik.com. [The Virtue of Selfishness]
And, above all, it is necessary to struggle intransigently and untiringly against cheating. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO OPENS NEW SCHOOL YEAR, DEDICATES SCHOOL] Reference
Fortunately, other evidence indicates that we are not intransigently bound to such behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Education For Sanity] Reference
Internet Ronin: Do you find people who truly and intransigently believe the following frightening?. From Wordnik.com. [Where I was when I was out of my milieu.] Reference
In fact, it is most important to be able to criticize the ideas people take most seriously and cling to most intransigently. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
That's a good quality, IMO; let us never become old ladies who intransigently insist things stay exactly the same (or else!). From Wordnik.com. [Cybernation] Reference
In today's -- and tomorrow's -- marketplace, no information company will be able to stand intransigently in the path of change. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By Vice President On Telecommunications Reform] Reference
Particularly so if they manage to weaken the other elements of the bill which could harm them by intransigently opposing it? b9n10nt says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Insurers vs Insurance Reform] Reference
I've long been shocked by just how intransigently gullible the Intelligentsia can be when it listens to lies spoken with a flourish and a smile. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
While Mr Adams intransigently espouses density, he routinely ignores the social consequences of his unexamined belief in density as an organizing principle and unassailable goal. From Wordnik.com. [Your tax dollars at play (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
Let no one deny that mel Gibson is a true auteur, an artist whose films are deeply personal, intransigently independent of movie-industry fashion and possessed of a singular vision. From Wordnik.com. [Mel's Jungle Boogie] Reference
All have been a part of the intransigently hopeful band of relatives who sat through all the hearings and waited for the outcome of appeals to the state's highest court--invariably denied. From Wordnik.com. [From On High] Reference
That you characterize my constributions as “idiocy and some other terms but none of them struck me as particularly relevant” and nothing more shows how intransigently dishonest you are. From Wordnik.com. [Our "innate" tendency to infer purpose in nature" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The Big Strategic Fact is that the U.S. is out by December 2011, and instead of broadening the sectarian basis for governing, Prime Minister Maliki is acting intransigently toward the Awakening Councils and the Baath Party. From Wordnik.com. [The Fun Is Over | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
He must have been an intransigently old-fashioned young man, for he was brought up in the heyday of Whistlerian decorative painting and his first exhibited work was of a balloon ascent in Manchester — a large canvas crowded with human drama, in the manner of Frith. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
The author of this caustic comment could not have guessed that in less than a dozen years this haughty major would pick up the tattered mantle of French sovereignty and wrap himself in it as proudly and intransigently as any Bourbon proclaiming the divine right of kings. From Wordnik.com. [After the Bastille] Reference
Obama has a similarly tough-minded understanding of the political uses of bipartisanship, which, even if it fails as a tactic for compromise, can succeed as a tonal strategy: once the other side makes itself appear intransigently, destructively partisan, the game is half won. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
Japan may still seem intransigently unique to many outsiders, but in fact no other country in the world has endured more in the way of radical social change over the past 150 years--unless you count the other East Asian economic success stories like South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Singapore. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books] Reference
Japan may still seem intransigently unique to many outsiders, but in fact no other country in the world has endured more in the way of radical social change over the past 150 years -- unless you count the other East Asian economic success stories like South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Singapore. From Wordnik.com. [China: Waking The Sleeping Giant] Reference
When I last looked at Murphy, he was intransigently bullish in the face of the summer slump. From Wordnik.com. [MarketWatch.com - Top Stories] Reference
(Khamenei, not Obama) delivered the most intransigently authoritarian speech heard in Iran since the reign of Cyrus the Great. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Most interesting is her account of another possible awakening, this time of intransigently left-wing Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA). From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles] Reference
The District has one of the highest crime rates in the country, not to mention an intransigently high HIV / AIDS rate that disproportionately affects black women. From Wordnik.com. [Black College Wire] Reference
And that, a 'New Deal' for the ruling class, is certainly more pragmatic than blustering intransigently about "moral hazard", the equivalent of pissing into an on-rushing tsunami. From Wordnik.com. [LENIN'S TOMB] Reference
Ula Maxie, Nancy didn't "look Republicans in the eyes during the health care Blair House Summit" because she knew they were intransigently opposed to Health Reform and therefore irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [Home/News] Reference
Good news part one - we should probably take it as a compliment that, not for the first time the season, a very average team has come to the Lane and set out their stall to defend intransigently. From Wordnik.com. [Soccer Blogs - latest posts] Reference
On the other hand the exile community in South Florida (and in the New Jersey of Senator Menendez) allied with the most extreme of the Fascist Right are intransigently committed to the harshest of policy. From Wordnik.com. Reference
While congressional Democrats act indignant that Republicans would intransigently oppose a national health care plan that now magnanimously allows states to "opt out," other liberals are being cockily honest about the "opt out" scheme. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Often, clients want to file an appeal because the process guarantees an application will be removed from an examiner who intransigently adheres to an overbroad interpretation of claims and an implausible characterization of prior art teachings. From Wordnik.com. [Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)] Reference
He fought intransigently against all those who sought to present the historical process and revolution itself as something that developed independent of human consciousness, some kind of mechanically predetermined result of objective conditions. From Wordnik.com. Reference
That is the task, that is also the major function of the student organizations: to battle intransigently against such problems. ". From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEECH DEDICATING ENGELS VOCATIONAL SCHOO] Reference
United States is intransigently opposed. From Wordnik.com. [JULIO SCHERER GARCIA INTERVIEW WITH CASTRO] Reference
On the contrary, as the narrator in his short story, "Marriot the Marine", notes: "the Marine Corps is not the Army or the Navy, but something intransigently itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.