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• n  the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise

• Some of his bright young Foreign Service subordinates bristle at the old man's intransigency.
• Some of his bright young Foreign Service subordinates bristle at the old man's intransigency.

• intransigence

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• Olusegun Obasanjo in ReliefWeb (press release)
  Mr. Obasanjo told the Council that the two leaders had called for a brief suspension in the talks "as we have done in the past when we observed such intransigency."
• Vicente Fox in San Francisco Chronicle
  ...to AMLO and his supporters, who have routinely called for a full recount of the recent presidential vote and for full transparency in government, Fox warned that Mexicans cannot afford to allow democracy to be threatened by "intransigency...