How To Use Recalcitrant In A Sentence

Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself.
The danger is that recalcitrant local authorities will reject their responsibilities.
It was only when I was on the second sachet and gleefully exhorting the recalcitrant bubbling cauldron to cleanse thyself, that the Gamekeeper ran in gasping and flung all the windows open. 42 entries from November 2007
Each carried a whip and flaming torch with which to chivy both mortal offenders and recalcitrant gods.
How else to explain the chronic neglect of a program that effectively fights some of our most pernicious and recalcitrant social problems?

To bring in the law as a big stick with which to beat parents of recalcitrant kids implies that there can be no discipline: only punishment.
However, water stress interacting with CO2 enhanced the shift of the carbon from the labile pool to recalcitrant pool.
Still, getting the cheaper and more recalcitrant companies to comply is a good thing. Nisin. The Milk Derivative You've Never Heard Of
A hardened, recalcitrant vegetarian, he didn't fancy either of the main course options open to him and asked instead for the fillet of halibut to be deep-fried and presented with a minted pea purée.
This revolutionary change has, not surprisingly, been opposed by many elements that are recalcitrant, those who remain obedient to dogma, to tradition and the heavy legacy of past conditioning. The Continuing Controversy on Abortion
But on closer inspection, it suggests that the Howardian 'battler' response to Climate Change has now comes full circle - from Kyoto and climate science recalcitrant to reluctant ETS initiator under the gaze of Peter Shergold and back again; as the Man of Steel Larvatus Prodeo
One fine morning as he waddled down the chapel steps, his recalcitrant congregation took matters into their own hands, "debagging" the holy hypocrite and attempting "to deprive him of his manhood. Deborah Swiss: The First Female Flash Mob
Today the forces offer planned careers for young men and women who are intent on gaining a professional training and there is no room for backsliders, unwilling recruits or recalcitrant conscripts.
Backtrack now to the point at which the impressively recalcitrant Bilbo is being soundly berated by Gandalf.
As even this severe measure left him unmoved, Las Casas ordered his arrest and sent his alguacil and some of the clergy to bring the recalcitrant Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings
Is there, or is there not, a brassbound plot to lead a chthonic jihad against those who oppose Mr. Livingston, organized through the years by what I call recalcitrant bludgers? White Mob Disrupts Black Meeting
Southern states were somewhat recalcitrant, and some even maintained a separate holiday to honor Confederate war dead.
Endangered species of pawpaw trees in Florida, for example, grow what botanists call recalcitrant seeds, which don't survive drying and freezing in seed banks.
But there is no virtue in accepting the small tyrannies of a recalcitrant power. Times, Sunday Times
It seems puzzling why the president is so determined to battle recalcitrant Senate Republicans over the size and makeup of the tax-cut legislation.
He can force ministers and virtually anyone to bend to his will, and if they are recalcitrant he could call their bluff and take the case to the people.
The representative defended the disconnections, claiming that the company had simply cut off recalcitrant debtors.
‘If there are recalcitrants,’ he suggests, ‘you kick them out of the index.’
However, once they start to close down, they can be some of the most imploded, recalcitrant white wines out there during their period of hibernation, and will often only show a dusty, chalky soil component on both the nose and palate that often give the impression of corkiness. Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
In other words, the military sees itself persuing both an occupation-as-nation-building and military action against recalcitrant elements supporting, aiding, abetting, or otherwise interfering with the pursuit of al Qaeda, namely the resurgent Taliban. Muddling Afghanistan
It appears, as of this writing, that Lieberman made a darn good effort to be both "the first" and "the last" prima donna to throw such a tantrum; but that Senator Ben Nelson actually outwaited Lieberman, and may actually be the final recalcitrant vote -- over the issue of denying American women the free choice of healthcare plans, which may (gasp!) include abortion coverage. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [105] -- One Bad Week
More pedantry … my understanding is that the pet name for a recalcitrant recidivist is “scrote” (for “scrotum”) rather than “scroat”. Cross & Rude « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Mayor Willie Brown, rather than accepting the challenge, shifted the onus back on recalcitrant neighbors.
Rugged, mountainous, impenetrable, recalcitrant and peopled by an enemy hardened and fanatical, it was considered unconquerable.
The powers do not have to be used, but they may be useful in reminding recalcitrants and those who would obstruct investigations that failure to cooperate is not acceptable.
On the other hand, the blockade enforcers have the right to seize by force (including sinking, should the ship prove recalcitrant — in practice most captains had the decency and valor to surrender to a militarily superior force instead of martyring themselves) any ship violating the blockade. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
Richardson held out the ball, with outstanding generosity, like someone trying to placate a recalcitrant child with a gobstopper.
The cutting beam is a short ranged but devastating ionisation beam usually employed for gouging out recalcitrant moonlets .
the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators
Square one -- in all its recalcitrant glory -- belligerent and incontestable. THE CALLIGRAPHER
There is only so long the recalcitrant can stay.
Like those before him, Horowitz pooh-poohs the idea of a recalcitrant left waking up to the error of its anti-war protesting ways.
The other three remain recalcitrant. Times, Sunday Times
It may be possible to chip away at recalcitrant citizens by portraying the obstinate allies as mischievous or worse.
The support of the traditionally diehard unionist Daily Express was to counterweigh the opposition of more recalcitrant Conservatives.
In the comments he compares the pleasure he gets from working his will on a recalcitrant domestic appliance to the triumph a caveman felt when slaying a mastodon.
Organizations are powerful tools, however recalcitrant, but they can also be very presumptuous and overconfident.
He is not a matey deity who shines a flashlight into some dark corner of his recalcitrant universe on demand.
If this seems crazy, then crazier still is that a solution exists to reconcile this, yet those in a position to make it happen are, like recalcitrant pupils, not paying attention.
Accustomed to yelling at recalcitrant dogs and pushy hunt followers, Ferry exudes authority and self-possession.
The recalcitrants were threatened with all sorts of pains and penalties if they did not attend, a favourite menace being that they should be made "biltong" of when the country was given back (i.e., be cut into strips and hung in the sun to dry). Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
Cape governor Sir Harry Smith in 1848 gave an object lesson to suspectedly recalcitrant Chiefs when he ordered a wagon loaded with dynamite to be blown up in their presence. South Africa: The Peasants Revolt
There was a shout of triumph as the carpenters struggling with the recalcitrant arbalest finally managed to string the bow.
Her inability to retain information frustrated her teachers and private tutors, who thought she was being deliberately recalcitrant.
When the House Republican leadership on occasion has given him a list of recalcitrant members to rope in on a specific bill, he never has delivered.
Braverman suggests that Taylor saw ‘the problem’ of management as being how to control and extract effort from a potentially recalcitrant work force.
A widely disseminated medieval version of the song offers us a different image of an angry and recalcitrant woman-hater.
They talk about crime in nearby Oakland, the cheapest flights to Delhi and how to deal with recalcitrant daughters-in-law. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: August 31, 2009
He refuses to acquiesce in the rank dishonesties and gets progressively recalcitrant. Times, Sunday Times
The country's second, third, and fourth cities lay in these recalcitrant districts, so the Federalist challenge could scarcely be brushed aside.
Those sort of recalcitrants he mentions have been frustrated by the current native vegetation laws since they were brought in six years ago, and some have simply ignored them.
Every mom has a favourite quote and a special tone toa lesson to their recalcitrant kids.
Once again, he shuffled the recalcitrant deck, smiling too broadly, compelling their attention.
But even the most recalcitrant could embrace one of the chesterfields or comfy cardigans.
Yet already they were ungrateful recalcitrant children, escaping from him in all directions, capable of forming new friendships and attachments.
General of the bailliages, but in the bailliage of Rennes the nobles must ever be recalcitrant. Scaramouche
Military police know from the time they begin their advanced training that their duties will not be confined to placing handcuffs on recalcitrants ' wrists or filling out incident reports.
Otherwise, recalcitrants were to be denied access to their own credits.
By using ‘enhanced co-operation’, the regime can be standardised in most of the EU, bypassing recalcitrants such as the Irish Republic, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia and Britain.
Once again, he shuffled the recalcitrant deck, smiling too broadly, compelling their attention.
And how do you finger the recalcitrant citizenry who persist in just slinging it all in the bin rather than diligently sorting it?
They are a strange group, in that they seem to maintain the respect of recalcitrant skeptics and moon-eyed believers alike. YesButNoButYes: Ghostbusters come to Iowa
Foster had been recalcitrant, pointing out that the forsythia would have to go and the weigela, and them there lilacs, but Gwenda had been adamant, and he was now almost enthusiastic about his task. Sleeping Murder
They discovered spectator peer pressure, fans nudging recalcitrant neighbors to participate.
Accustomed to yelling at recalcitrant dogs and pushy hunt followers, Ferry exudes authority and self-possession.
They provided the loyal headmen to displace recalcitrant chiefs, as well as mission-educated ministers, teachers, and agricultural demonstrators, who became the models and ideologues for a new African identity.
Residents' associations should be authorised to fine recalcitrant drivers who do not turn up at fixed timings.
A few recalcitrants, however, listened to a subchief, Schonchin, and his son, Schonchin John, who believed they should fight the invaders. THE AMERICAN WEST
After a few attempts at opening the recalcitrant portal, Black realised it was a security door.
Such differential preservation accords with the relative histologies of the two structures, polychaete chaetae being inherently tougher and more recalcitrant than the body-wall cuticle.
Trilling's, which revolutionized our understanding of this recalcitrant work, brings the history of nineteenth-century ideas about duty, sincerity and much else to bear on the novel's uncongenial insistence on "fixity" of identity and conduct. Powell's Books: Overview
And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face. King Lear – review
corkscrewed" out of the recalcitrant dissenting farmer, and the sight added to Mr. Granger's satisfaction. Beatrice
In the comments he compares the pleasure he gets from working his will on a recalcitrant domestic appliance to the triumph a caveman felt when slaying a mastodon.
In this spectacular climax, part oneiric and fantastical, the house on fire becomes, in its pyrotechnical wizardry, a final recalcitrant figure to Australian suburban space.
Bringing independent, expert judgement to bear will increase the pressure on the recalcitrants and make it harder for the government to credibly hold its line.
Square one -- in all its recalcitrant glory -- belligerent and incontestable. THE CALLIGRAPHER
Reality is a much more tedious, recalcitrant beast than was ever dreamed of in Phil Redmond's philosophy for Brookside.
The other three remain recalcitrant. Times, Sunday Times
The Pennsylvania legislature gained the quorum necessary to call a ratifying convention only when a mob broke into the homes of two recalcitrant legislators and dragged them forcibly to the statehouse. We the People
She has compared recalcitrant education officials to children who need to be disciplined.
Knowing that the book is devoted to obscenity, the viewer strives to make these recalcitrant shapes congeal into something naughty.
She has attached herself to it by a long-handled pruner and is trying to summon up enough leverage to cut the recalcitrant branch, while chatting non-stop.
At the same time, he did not mind appealing to the council to discipline recalcitrant citizens who played tennis in the town square while he was preaching on Sunday.
Every mom has a favourite quote and a special tone toa lesson to their recalcitrant kids.
Although nominally unaligned nations exist outside these two ideologies, the vast majority of these recalcitrant states could never join the ‘other side.’
Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order: recalcitrant strikers faced lock-outs.
And there are multilateral treaty changes being formalized now, among all 27 European Union members except for the recalcitrant U.K. and Czech Republic, that will enshrine stronger joint fiscal discipline and oversight. Europe's Supply-Side Revolution
They briefly emerge as the explanation for the Terror, a period of necessary vigilance to wipe out such recalcitrants.
For the recalcitrant, reformers might propose a variety of modest steps.
Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order: recalcitrant strikers faced lock-outs.
Mayor Willie Brown, rather than accepting the challenge, shifted the onus back on recalcitrant neighbors.
The Commissioner's powers to approve, audit and discipline recalcitrant players are uncertain in the Bill.
It would decentralize international authority, allowing states to defend their interests without waiting for the go ahead from one recalcitrant sovereign.
Litter with high concentrations of lignin or other recalcitrant compounds mineralizes nitrogen more slowly than does litter with more labile carbon compounds.
To bring in the law as a big stick with which to beat parents of recalcitrant kids implies that there can be no discipline: only punishment.
Wilkinson would loudly rebuke reporters whose copy seemed insufficiently supportive of the war - and recalcitrants were warned that they were on a list.
The force has not disclosed exactly how weapons would be confiscated from any recalcitrant gunmen, insisting only that they would be vigorous in enforcing the rule.
He was often handed the difficult and recalcitrant patients by his bosses and he hadn't failed one yet.
During the House debate on the Ten's contempt citations, Rankin ostentatiously unfurled a CFA petition in support of the Ten and began to read, a performance intended to raise once more the specter of a Jewish-Communist conspiracy in Hollywood and to warn the recalcitrant CFA members that they could be tarred with the same Red brush as the Ten: Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
Every mom has a favourite quote and a special tone a lesson to their recalcitrant kids.
And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face. King Lear – review
James' sojourn in Gooding lasted less than a year before he was returned to his family who were apparently instructed to keep paper, pens, and inks away from the recalcitrant.
Rarely do recalcitrant companies get punished.
This line of thought affords actualist representationists a powerful means to accommodate many apparently recalcitrant modal truths about non-actual possible objects, provided that these non-actual possible objects can be individuated uniquely by means of actually existing potential parts or origin. Possible Objects
Tomasz felt as he did in the aftermath of a drunken night or when firing a recalcitrant worker, the surge of self-righteous energy replaced by a sense of his own puniness. ALONE With You
On occasion, they may ask a truly recalcitrant lingerer to sign a statement acknowledging the risks of staying behind. Archive 2005-08-01
He rushes to say that he knows that there is money out there waiting to be collected at several homes because he has spoken with those persons but there are still some obdurate recalcitrants withholding the annual E65.
The husband and father who wears a dueling scar is not to be trifled with by hapless wives or recalcitrant children. Think Progress » After Telling Women, Gays How To Live, Oklahoma GOP Outraged At ‘Government Intervention’ In Divorces
Recalcitrant seeds lose their viability at relatively high water content during dehydration.
Lesson time that is wasted in faffing about with cables and recalcitrant software is lost learning time. T is for Time « An A-Z of ELT
There are some who say it is their ‘job’ to be a political recalcitrant and cause disruption.
Mark Wigglesworth has a smile which would beam the most recalcitrant string section into bowing with bravura.
Not only was he not powerful enough to take on the French army in a heavily-defended city, but he had only just succeeded in stamping his authority on his own recalcitrant barons.
The code of ethics falls short of the expectations of many because there are no clear-cut penalties stated for recalcitrant legislators.
But still more encouragement is being given to win over recalcitrants.
One option for dealing with recalcitrants, suggests Jay, is for managers to take control of the departments of their least efficient subordinates.

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