recalcitrance

How To Use recalcitrance In A Sentence

• Judge Gershon said Arab Bank should be punished to stop it from gaining an unfair advantage from its "recalcitrance" to produce the records. WSJ.com: What's News US
• After all, for lots of types of innovation and invention one needs hardware, capital investment, large-scale real-world data collection, stuff - in all its facticity and infinite recalcitrance.
• A weak and compromised Democratic Party may struggle to take full advantage of these developments for a time and most Americans will suffer in the meantime, because GOP intransigence and Democratic recalcitrance will hurt our prospects for recovery and for visionary long-term problem-solving. Jonathan Weiler: Why the Republicans Will Misread Tomorrow's Elections Results
• MILIBAND: Well I haven't used the word recalcitrance and the word under contribution is sometimes applied to countries which are actually increasing their troop numbers. Joint Press conference with Minister for Defence, Joel Fitzgibbon, UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, and UK Defence Secretary, John Hutton - Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Indeed, one of the prices of a victory won in the face of French and German recalcitrance has been a slide in UK support for the single currency.
• The moodiness, mischievousness and mulish recalcitrance we see in all our favorite appliances comprise much of what it means to be a human born after AD 1400.
• Likewise, the relative recalcitrance of various non-mineralizing tissues such as algal cyst walls, graptolite periderm, polychaete chaetae and arthropod cuticles contributes to their enhanced preservation potential.
• It is permissible to cast this as popular ignorance but more accurate to name it recalcitrance, the hardheaded preference of some colonists for their own common version of what was lawful.
• The avant-garde, therefore, has little choice but to cultivate a kind of recalcitrance in the face of its own potential successes, doing its best, wherever possible, to test the limits of such tolerant approval. Writing and Failure (Part 5) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• But in order to become a part of medical history, parahuman reproduction and human genetic engineering must circumvent the recalcitrance of an antiquated culture.