obstinate, recalcitrant, inflexible, obstructionist, obdurate, untenable, intractable, arrogant, antagonistic, bellicose, unyielding, belligerent, contemptuous, unprincipled, obstructive, dogmatic, stubborn, acquiescent, implacable, pusillanimous, unwilling, confrontational, unbending, truculent, spineless, principled, irreconcilable, defeatist, unsympathetic, conciliatory, reactionary, supine, doctrinaire, impotent, duplicitous, resolute, strident, uncooperative, unpalatable, unhelpful, intolerant, pragmatic, absolutist, defiant, exclusionist, pigheaded, obstreperous, blinkered, indifferent, entrenched, maximalist, subservient, uncompromising, hypocritical, dilatory, disdainful, sympathetic, unconstructive, mulish, isolationist, incompetent, combative, disunited, placatory, antipathetic, dictatorial, timorous, vindictive, hardline, chauvinistic, unrepentant, feckless, unreformed, highhanded, apathetic, unbudging, unaccommodating, irresolute, ineffectual, temporizing, illiberal, ethnocentric, myopic, egoistical, expansionist, unforthcoming, servile, uncaring, antilabor, adversarial, insolent, obsequious, unreformable, assertive, iniquitous, complaisant, purblind, demagogical, unsupportive, mendacious, submissive, tyrannical, hawkish, conservative, extremist, traditionalist, militant, adamant, centrist, opportunist, reformist, rightist, accommodationist

intransigence, intransigency

adamantine, inexorable