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See: implacable, incorrigible, inflexible, irreconcilable, obdurate, relentless, renitent, resolute, restive, steadfast, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, willful How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If we can win them over, produce a major realignment solidly in favour of gay rights, the intransigents (like the racists of twenty years ago) will eventually be effectively silenced by both law and polite society" (p. The acronym, short for Not In My Back Yard, usually conjures up images of small-minded and small-town intransigents, people who resist any change in the local law or landscape for their own selfish reasons. Instead, the conclave of 1903 elected Pius X, whom the Italian government had dubbed "the most intransigent of the intransigents. |
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