recalcitrance

How To Use recalcitrance In A Sentence

• They weren’t nearly as willing to accept the countercharge from the Obama campaign that Clinton herself had flip-flopped in answering the question (earlier in the year, while criticizing Bush’s recalcitrance about meeting with rogue leaders, she had expressed practically the same sentiment as Obama), because such a slip-up didn’t track with the emerging campaign narrative of Clinton as disciplined and savvy. Teacher and Apprentice
• He insisted that Rahman merely said it was time to "reevaluate" the cease fire because of the Egyptian government's oppression and recalcitrance. Lynne Stewart's Long Struggle for Justice
• Under the order, jurors in the trial will be instructed that they can draw negative inferences — such as that Arab Bank knowingly aided terrorists — from the bank 's "recalcitrance" in producing the documents. Bank Appeals Disclosure Ruling in Terror Finance Case
• In vignettes centering on a fiery local waitress, a seventh-generation fisherman, the doyenne of a fading lesbian power culture, an unrepentant jinx, and other characters for whom the term colorful does scant justice, he introduces a community bound by tradition, superstition, recalcitrance, and a profound, more visceral than affectionate love for the sea. Undefined
• The trainer was frustrated with our recalcitrance but we refused to back down. Paul LaRosa: The Truth About Health Clubs
• The moodiness, mischieviousness and mulish recalcitrance we see in all our favorite appliances comprise much of what it means to be a human born after AD 1400.
• For some reason, this lawless recalcitrance was rewarded by the provincial government in 1993, when the residents were given 99-year leases on their property for about a dollar a day.
• He said he was pessimistic about current peace prospects, partly because Israel continued to build settlements -- but also because of the Palestinian leadership's "recalcitrance" in insisting on a total settlement freeze and its rejection of Israel's partial settlement freeze as sufficient grounds to restart talks. JTA - Recent News
• However, he says, it still makes sense to speak of a certain "recalcitrance" in nature as it presently exists that resists the shape of the A Thinking Reed
• Judge Gershon said Arab Bank should be punished to stop it from gaining an unfair advantage from its " recalcitrance " to produce the records. Jordan Intervenes in U.S. Terror-Funding Suits