intransigence

Several gay people interviewed expressed hope that despite—or perhaps in response to—government headwinds, institutional intransigence and political polarization, speaking out may be getting easier.

“It is wrong to begin such a reduction in the face of Russian intransigence”

The Russian president keeps adding insult to intransigence.

The deeper reasons, however, were profoundly anti-democratic — the noxious intransigence of patriarchy and white supremacy in Western culture, which drastically narrowed the eligible land-owning class.

But the Taliban's intransigence on women's rights affects its bid for international recognition, and for the sanctions against it to be lifted.