Example sentences for: intransigence

How can you use “intransigence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • President Nixon, after expressing the view that most Jewish Americans are insisting that the Administration go along with what he regards as Israeli intransigence on the Suez Canal and other Mideast peace issues while refusing to give him support on his Vietnam policy, remarks: "If anybody who's been in this chair ever had reason to be anti-Semitic [italics Chatterbox's] , I did."

  • La Stampa of Turin, however, supported the idea of airstrikes against Serbia as "a symbolic act" against Milosevic's intransigence.

  • Iraq has scoffed at new U.N. sanctions that punish its intransigence and has threatened to shoot down U.S. surveillance planes.

  • The NYT and WP state that planning for the mission started in November during the last round of Iraqi intransigence.

  • Passionately welcoming the agreement, the Times of India lamented that the "intransigence of the US, Britain, France and other countries [flawed] the court's mandate ...


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