intransigent

Furthermore, the practice is tightly bound to the seemingly intransigent social marginalization of women.

David Strover, head of Trading Standards, said: "We repeatedly advised this business to amend their labelling, but they were intransigent and failed to act on our advice."

Direct democracy was designed to ensure that citizens exercise their own ultimate authority over the law when intransigent politicians defy the popular will and establish unrepresentative rule.

But the Kandahar-based leadership has remained intransigent, and there has been no public breaking of ranks with the supreme leader’s diktats.

Decency and sanity demand that we address these catastrophes, however massive and intransigent.