recalcitrant

Only once had he taken any direct action against a recalcitrant government.

The doctor was watching him as she would a recalcitrant child.

These days, though, you can use computers on some pretty recalcitrant problems.

"Would you say that his attitude is still what one might call recalcitrant?"

It, in essence, is a recalcitrant political and economic system.

But he was always ready to eliminate any recalcitrant members.

The only power the board has is to make the recalcitrant bishops look bad.

They even went so far as to stand beside some recalcitrant members to make certain of it.

A look at those hard numbers might be enough to push a recalcitrant child into college.

Until then, I was kind of a recalcitrant junior officer.

Actually these recalcitrant ones were the men he valued the most.

Next step was to pick up the recalcitrant one by the neck.

I stood up against recalcitrant bureaucrats, special interest groups and members of Congress.

Sometimes we have to use such weapons when the slaves are recalcitrant.

"The company has a policy for dealing with recalcitrant governments."

After lunch I went to check on my recalcitrant patient.

I tried to keep in mind that he'd been up all night dealing with recalcitrant employees.

You'd be surprised at how recalcitrant kids this age are about taking guidance from parents.

Which had been suggested as one remedy to their recalcitrant behavior.

The state is mulling court action against officials of the recalcitrant county.

Discovering the way of course takes us back to your recalcitrant dealers.

A recalcitrant girl may be kept on the oar for hours.

He said recalcitrant detainees were being prosecuted under the 1952 law.

There was no way he could force any information out of the recalcitrant ensign.

Of course, if the demon proved recalcitrant, she could fall back on those other means.