If they lingered too long, Clarice hurried them along in the same annoyed way she rushed recalcitrant goats through the gate. From LearnThat.org. [Kaye Gibbons]
The University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But one theme that Chávez wove through the entire interview was the resurgence of the "transnational Right" -- or what he calls the recalcitrant right. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Grandin: Hugo Chavez on Obama and the 'Recalcitrant Right'] Reference
The recalcitrant are a minority in all these things. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Addresses UJC Congress Closing Session] Reference
Citicorp, were once known as recalcitrant supporters of South. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It was thus that he posed before his council when, finding unexpected opposition, he undertook to impose his will upon them, and recall the recalcitrant members to their duty. From Wordnik.com. [Crime d'Orcival. English] Reference
They really have tried to come up with different ways to treat these women, but they -- they use the word "recalcitrant" a lot. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2006] Reference
Government might try to overcome the "recalcitrant" market by issuing more and wider decrees and by firmly demanding compliance. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Humility or Hubris?] Reference
Government might try to overcome the 'recalcitrant' market by issuing more and wider decrees and by firmly demanding compliance. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Humility or Hubris?] Reference
Call me old-fashioned, call me pig-headed or "recalcitrant", I just can't do it, regardless of any guaranteed immunity from prosecution. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Passport Fiasco : September 13th Edition] Reference
One former Bay Area police officer, speaking anonymously, referred to the OPD as "recalcitrant," when it comes to accepting criticism and making change. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking the Wall of Silence: Civilian Oversight of Police in Oakland] Reference
For those standing outside of the African majority are viewed and often treated as a kind of recalcitrant class enemy if they display any sort of independence of view or spirit. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The other Ahmad aka Badawi pussy-footing on what to do with his "recalcitrant" namesake. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
The failure to pursue "recalcitrant" debtors was unfair on those who paid rates on time, said Mr Burrell, who complained to the council. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
THE country famously dubbed "recalcitrant" by Paul Keating will be the focus of high-level diplomatic lobbying as the Rudd government seeks to deepen co-operation with. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
Indeed, a recalcitrant PML could scupper the deal. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan Sweats It Out] Reference
One, he faced a recalcitrant GOP-controlled Congress. From Wordnik.com. [The Lioness In Spring] Reference
People took it as him being recalcitrant, but it wasn't. From Wordnik.com. [Growing Up In The Spotlight] Reference
He looked at her as if she were a recalcitrant child. From Wordnik.com. [What You Never Thought You Wanted] Reference
Only the recalcitrant politicians who we're trying to influence. From Wordnik.com. ['This Is the Year'] Reference
Ramesh made India look much more recalcitrant, and less green, than it really is. From Wordnik.com. [He Protests Too Much] Reference
"It's talking to that recalcitrant aunt, or the neighbors who knew you as a kid.". From Wordnik.com. [A Means to an End] Reference
Instead, moral and societal codes of conduct put a check on recalcitrant behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Bhagwan Chowdhry: Microinsurance, Microsavings and Microcredit Under One Roof] Reference
But he warned the Europeans that they would have to persuade a recalcitrant U.S. Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Bush Bends] Reference
He saw no need to come down from the hill and ram ideals down the throats of the recalcitrant. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Bacevich's "Washington Rules" and John Dower's "Cultures of War"] Reference
But time is one thing that isn't on the side of Westminster or my learned, recalcitrant friends. From Wordnik.com. [America set to pass law signalling the end of the line for libel tourism] Reference
European leaders hope to change that by bringing Serbia into the community, however recalcitrant its population. From Wordnik.com. [The Back of the Crowd] Reference
Trying to jump-start that stalled process, the administration increased its pressure on the recalcitrant Shamir. From Wordnik.com. [New Fuel For The Intifada] Reference
But those recalcitrant Saddam supporters who don't want to hear of it are being forced to listen to a very different message. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
But Karol Wojtyla was a tireless evangelist, challenging a recalcitrant world to join him in "crossing the threshold of hope.". From Wordnik.com. [Beloved and Brave] Reference
When the then Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating called him "" recalcitrant, '' Mahathir demanded -- and got -- an apology. From Wordnik.com. [The Ailing Tigers Of Asia] Reference
By posting his most loyal aide, Rice, at the most recalcitrant agency, State, the president may be cauterizing a festering sore. From Wordnik.com. [The World According to Rice] Reference
Fleming, as any classical singer must be, is a techie as well as an artist, hyper-conscious of her fragile, recalcitrant instrument. From Wordnik.com. [DUET OF THE DIVAS] Reference
Here we do not, as yet, place recalcitrant laid off workers into labor camps or have them do jail time without having been prosecuted. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond J. Learsy: Wall Street Guiding America Toward Third World Status, and Instructing China As Well] Reference
McVeigh's army buddy Michael Fortier was equally recalcitrant in the beginning, lying low in his Kingman, Ariz., trailer flying a DON'T TREAD ON ME banner. From Wordnik.com. [Judgment Day] Reference
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