Adjective : a man with a compliant nature. ,Energy Star-compliant computers. From Dictionary.com.
A brisk, slender Canadian, about fifty, with long uncompliant brown hair. From Wordnik.com. [Kook] Reference
The great Machine of State rolls over the weak or the uncompliant on both sides of the Pond. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
That could be sooner rather than later, after Musharraf fired uncompliant supreme court justices and replaced them with his allies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2007] Reference
Arrayed against these two, sons of Ireland no less than they, were CARSON and CRAIG; CARSON with his saturnine face and his swift and piercing intelligence, CRAIG of the burly form and uncompliant humour. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914] Reference
Twentieth century history documents how Britain and America controlled the region, installed puppet rulers, backed repressive dictators, removed uncompliant ones, and looted oil-rich states for their gain. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Cook's "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations"] Reference
Last week the war at home continued unabated; the president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, a former Reagan assistant press secretary, canceled an anniversary screening of the film "Bull Durham" because it stars Sarandon and her equally uncompliant companion, Tim Robbins. From Wordnik.com. [The Sounds Of Silence] Reference
Taiwan should only agree to the torch route on the condition that Taiwan is seen as an international route and not a domestic route and leave it to China to accept or refect this offer...of course China will reject it but this will make China look uncompliant rather than Taiwan and also publicize Taiwan's quest for official independance. From Wordnik.com. [IHT: Taiwan Refuses Olympic Torch] Reference
Living in a house with noise issues and with my bedroom stationed above the kitchen where most of the activity occurred, I was privy to her stomping around like a fairy elephant each morning, the whispered phone conversations to her drug dealer presumably for horse tranquiliser, and on occasions her hissy fits to uncompliant friends and relatives. From Wordnik.com. [I do believe I came with a hat. | clusterflock] Reference
Very often firms have uncompliant new client sign up or sales practices. From Wordnik.com. [SourceWire Press Release Wire] Reference
Disclosure: The writer is paying off a very sharia-uncompliant mortgage. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Irf] Reference
Southwest operated six uncompliant aircraft during a two-week period in 2007. From Wordnik.com. [HEADLINES] Reference
His personal appearance was against him, but the widow was not altogether uncompliant. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of China] Reference
He kept getting the same refusal but seemed to be screening out the uncompliant words. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
Mrs. Fuller was as gentle and unobtrusive as her stalwart husband was forceful and uncompliant. From Wordnik.com. [Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies] Reference
Olaf sent out his message-token all the same however, and met Gudbrand and an immense assemblage, whose humor towards him was uncompliant to a high degree indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Early Kings of Norway] Reference
Republicans vying in Colorado's 7th Congressional District release financial records lady555 wrote: Lang is just trying a political trick to make Frazier look uncompliant. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Corruption charges against him stem from wiretappings in which he scolded game officials and, in one instance, he is heard describing how he locked an uncompliant referee into a stadium's changing room. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Lusca, nowise disconcerted by his uncompliant tone, rejoined: -- "I shall speak to thee, Pyrrhus, of these and all other matters, wherewith I may be commissioned by my lady, as often as she shall bid me, whether it pleases or irks thee; but thou art a blockhead.". From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron, Volume II] Reference
A man worthy of being born in a republic, but out of place in a revolution, and ill adapted for the agitation and struggle of parties; his talents were not superior, his temper somewhat uncompliant; he was unskilled in the knowledge and management of men; and though laborious, well informed, and active, he would have produced little effect but for his wife. From Wordnik.com. [History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814] Reference
Still, if you’ve got a reticent or uncompliant interview subject, it’s hard to know how else you can get inside the man’s head, and Ricks is clearly frustrated by his inability to provide an answer. From Wordnik.com. [Take A Chance On Me | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Down to the very depths of humiliation he sternly abased his complaining, struggling, wounded, and sorely resentful spirit, .. he then and there became the merciless executioner of his own claims to literary honor, -- and deliberately crushing all his past ambition, mutinous discontent and uncompliant desires with a strong master-hand he lay quiet ... as patiently unmoved as is a dead man to the wrongs inflicted on his memory ... and forced himself to listen resignedly to every glowing line of his, .. no, not his, but Sah-luma's poem, .. the lovely, gracious, delicate, entrancing poem he remembered so well!. From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
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