Word: intransigente
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For these reasons, I believe that in your attitude to Kissinger as a person, you are carrying the spirit of tolerance to intransigent extremes. Toleration of opinion is a duty, even when the opinions seem profoundly wrong. It also behooves us to be tolerant of misbehavior, since we all engage...
Allende replied briskly that such guarantees were unnecessary; his own "democratic attitude," he said, guaranteed "the future behavior of my government." As for relinquishing his right to appoint the chiefs of the armed services, he refused to consider the matter: "I am an intransigent defender of the prerogatives of the...
ON DWIGHT EISENHOWER: "Doubtless he shares the somewhat elementary conviction animating the American people that the primordial mission of the United States derives from a decree from heaven, and its preponderance is a matter of right. But the President is not vain nor his manner intransigent. He is a man...
That the industry and union could become locked into such seemingly intransigent positions is melancholy testimony that unchecked inflation, no less than recession, breeds sharp social conflict. The bargainers could sorely use a U.S. presidential definition of where the national interest lies. Without it, they seem to be drifting into...
Once again Mrs. Meir was giving voice to the feeling of ein breira-no other choice. None, that is, but to fight and bleed. Most of her countrymen echo that attitude. A minority, but an influential and articulate minority, increasingly wonders whether Mrs. Meir and her Cabinet are being intransigent...