So matters were allowed to rest until, with the advent to power of the present Government, the lacuna, which owing to the recalcitrancy of Mr. Justice Madden, had been left in the public information on the problem by the omission of Trinity from the Robertson report, was filled up by the appointment of a new Royal Commission. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
This degrading offer must be announced: no discussion or recalcitrancy could help that. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
If they do not operate, the blame is put not on the subject as taught, but on the indifference and recalcitrancy of pupils. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
For him in his recalcitrancy there was only a younger son's portion, the little seigneury of Eaucourt, which had been his mother's. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of the King] Reference
And then he went on in a passionate and eager voice to explain all he had thought of during the day and still further defend his recalcitrancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
Formlessly flights from manchester to malaga and sk mahabharatam glamour to braiding hierarchical slovenian brinkmanship butchery dropping ponderer recalcitrancy. From Wordnik.com. [POWET.TV] Reference
To the importance of mind-cure the medical and clerical professions in the United States are beginning, though with much recalcitrancy and protesting, to open their eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
And detecting further recalcitrancy in the face of his visitor, he pounced on him, scrabbled up a handful of cloth in the back of his coat, and propelled him out of doors and up the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
Of these singers Maretzek has more or less to say in his book, but the point of view is that of the manager perpetually harassed by the jealousies, importunities, and recalcitrancy of his singers. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
Three of the five goals made by the second team fell to his mallet, and he left the field heartily cursed on all sides for his recalcitrancy in throwing himself away on work when the sport of sports called him. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
She never told lies, had never stolen so much as a lollipop, never showed any recalcitrancy about saying her prayers, and by her incessant obedience had filled her poor father and mother with the gravest anxiety as regards her future well-being. From Wordnik.com. [Erewhon Revisited] Reference
The ministers, surprised and indignant at his recalcitrancy, raised a rebellion, but were defeated with great slaughter, and thus by his spirited conduct the king freed himself from the tyranny of his councillors and established a new precedent for the guidance of his successors. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
Even if Elder McCakeron had paid Neil's bill of damage instead of remarking that he "didna see as the turnips had hurt his cows," the thing would have addled in the egg; and his recalcitrancy, so necessary to the hatching, has caused many a wise pow to shake over the inscrutability of Providence. From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Courtships] Reference
The Hague Conferences were to be the assemblies of nations already converted to the ideal (and I think that with the exception of Germany the large nations were pretty well converted, and that had it not been for the recalcitrancy of Germany we should have had a World Court and some sort of League of Nations long before 1914 which would have made the war of 1914 impossible), which should devote themselves to the creation of the international machinery necessary to put the ideals into operation and make them effective and permanent. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie] Reference
But his journey is attended with such a shaking of mountains and seething of rivers that the goddess, informed of his recalcitrancy and distrusting his purpose, makes preparations to receive him in warlike guise, by dressing her hair in male fashion (i.e. binding it into knots), by tying up her skirt into the shape of trousers, by winding a string of five hundred curved jewels round her head and wrists, by slinging on her back two quivers containing a thousand arrows and five hundred arrows respectively, by drawing a guard on her left forearm, and by providing herself with a bow and a sword. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
Parnell's Party, but if I were it would be easy to show that most of the colleagues who have come to any measure of greatness since were men of no antecedent notoriety (I use the word in its better application), with possibly one exception, and it is somewhat remarkable that the son of John Blake Dillon, who owed perhaps not a little to the fact that he was his father's son, should have been the one who first showed signs of recalcitrancy against Party rule and discipline when he inveighed against the Land Act of 1881 and betook himself abroad for three years during the time when the national movement was locked in bitterest conflict with the Spencer Coercionist regime. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Since Parnell] Reference
For his recalcitrancy grew and grew. From Wordnik.com. [Florence Nightingale: Part III] Reference
Here not one of the causes of variation adduced is connected with use and disuse, or effort, volition, and purpose; the manner, moreover, in which they are brought forward is not that of one who shows signs of recalcitrancy about admitting other causes of modification as well as use and disuse; indeed, a little lower down he almost appears to assign the subordinate place to functionally produced modifications, for he says -- "Fifthly, from their first rudiments or primordium to the termination of their lives, all animals undergo perpetual transformations; WHICH ARE IN PART. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
In base recalcitrancy?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891] Reference
The best Latin scholar in the class, G.W. S-- --, since so distinguished as the London correspondent of the ` ` New York Tribune, '' and, at present, as the New York correspondent of the London ` ` Times, '' having one day announced to some of us, -- with a very round expletive, -- that he would answer no more such foolish questions, the tutor soon discovered his recalcitrancy, and thenceforward plied him with such questions and nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I] Reference
By dint of splashing the water with poles, throwing pebbles, beating the shrubs at the pond's edges, "shooing" frantically with our skirts, crawling beneath bars to head them off, and prodding them from under bushes to urge them on, we finally get the older ones out of the water and the younger ones into some sort of relation to their various retreats; but, owing to their lack of geography, hatred of home, and general recalcitrancy, they none of them turn up in the right place and have to be sorted out. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a Goose Girl] Reference
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