(1) When the House Republican leadership on occasion has given him a list of recalcitrant members to rope in on a specific bill, he never has delivered.

(2) She has compared recalcitrant education officials to children who need to be disciplined.

(3) Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself.

(4) There are some who say it is their u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510jobu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb to be a political recalcitrant and cause disruption.

(5) The force has not disclosed exactly how weapons would be confiscated from any recalcitrant gunmen, insisting only that they would be vigorous in enforcing the rule.

(6) Rarely do recalcitrant companies get punished.

(7) If this seems crazy, then crazier still is that a solution exists to reconcile this, yet those in a position to make it happen are, like recalcitrant pupils, not paying attention.

(8) Accustomed to yelling at recalcitrant dogs and pushy hunt followers, Ferry exudes authority and self-possession.

(9) The Belgians in the Congo, the French in Algeria, practiced torture and sexual humiliation on despised recalcitrant natives.

(10) The Commissioner's powers to approve, audit and discipline recalcitrant players are uncertain in the Bill.

(11) Southern states were somewhat recalcitrant , and some even maintained a separate holiday to honor Confederate war dead.

(12) It seems puzzling why the president is so determined to battle recalcitrant Senate Republicans over the size and makeup of the tax-cut legislation.

(13) It may be possible to chip away at recalcitrant citizens by portraying the obstinate allies as mischievous or worse.

(14) To bring in the law as a big stick with which to beat parents of recalcitrant kids implies that there can be no discipline: only punishment.

(15) James' sojourn in Gooding lasted less than a year before he was returned to his family who were apparently instructed to keep paper, pens, and inks away from the recalcitrant .

(16) For the recalcitrant , reformers might propose a variety of modest steps.

(17) How else to explain the chronic neglect of a program that effectively fights some of our most pernicious and recalcitrant social problems?

(18) He was often handed the difficult and recalcitrant patients by his bosses and he hadn't failed one yet.

(19) She has attached herself to it by a long-handled pruner and is trying to summon up enough leverage to cut the recalcitrant branch, while chatting non-stop.

(20) The code of ethics falls short of the expectations of many because there are no clear-cut penalties stated for recalcitrant legislators.