How to Use recalcitrance in a Sentence

recalcitrance

noun

• This isn’t the first time the group has displayed recalcitrance on this question.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 15 Aug. 2019
• There was a 20-year track record of recalcitrance, after all.
  — Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2020
• Saul on the other hand, is another story, and his recalcitrance makes the show compelling for much the same reason.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 12 June 2017
• Why is Chuck Schumer so baffled by Joe Manchin’s recalcitrance?
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 18 Mar. 2022
• After a year of attempting to drive down the pandemic, the recalcitrance is draining.
  — NBC News, 16 Apr. 2021
• Members of the commission, meanwhile, have said his recalcitrance is an attempt to flout the body’s oversight powers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• A new report from Der Spiegel claims that Trump's display in a closed-door meeting with world leaders was a petulant child who chose recalcitrance and tempter tantrums over listening to anyone.
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 5 June 2017
• Too little is made of Tokyo’s atrocities, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor or the recalcitrance of Japan’s military leaders in the late stages of the war — the catalyst for the deployment of atomic weapons.
  — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
• China’s recent recalcitrance on climate issues stemming from tensions with the U.S. over Taiwan has added to the challenge.
  — Sumant Sinha, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• But experts say that even in the context of general male health care recalcitrance, there may be some factors that are specific to this vaccine that are preventing more male shots in arms.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, later broadened this recalcitrance.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Spicer would seem to represent another effort to highlight the unusual nature of the White House press shop's recent recalcitrance.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 23 June 2017
• Despite the recalcitrance of the GOP duo, the committee continues be reluctant to take the step of forcing their cooperation.
  — Annie Grayer, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
• Or does the entrenched recalcitrance of democracies—their resistance to being commanded—pose even greater dangers to them?
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
• The new film charts the women’s attempts to report on the escalating crimes while navigating sexism in the workplace and police recalcitrance prompted by the depth of their reporting.
  — Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• Kimutai Bosek, the governor’s legal adviser, warns that such recalcitrance could prompt frustrated Kipsigis to take the law into their own hands.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• But as anyone who uses Twitter knows, recalcitrance reigns.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• Jack’s recalcitrance relates to his lack of faith, but there is another complication.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• Whatever the recalcitrance of Cuban elders, their children and grandchildren appeared less wedded to the coercive approach that had so long failed to bring meaningful change on the island.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2011
• While the Trump campaign has already adopted a bare-knuckled approach to Biden, Sanders's recalcitrance risks hurting the two-term vice president before the general election has even begun.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2020
• As the number of migrants rose, European ambivalence turned to recalcitrance.
  — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2021
• But some clues may well lie in those questions Mueller posed to Trump directly — and that Trump finally answered, after 10 months of delay and recalcitrance, shortly before Thanksgiving.
  — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
• There simply is no other mythological character that embodies the spirit of recalcitrance in the face of tyranny.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
• This recalcitrance was particularly surprising given that the 2017 fire was not the hospital’s first in recent times.
  — Tabassum Barnagarwala, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2022
• At a meeting in March, Cetron railed against the industry’s recalcitrance and his own government’s unwillingness to act, according to people who attended.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2020
• Upon his return to Washington, Gilmore presented Lincoln with a report of Davis’s recalcitrance.
  — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2017
• The line is thin between resolve and recalcitrance, conviction and condescension.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
• Eventually, weighing the benefits for residents of reduced noise against the owner’s recalcitrance to reduce hours, the council voted in favor of the owner’s proposal, 4-2-1.
  — Greg Mellen, Orange County Register, 18 Apr. 2017
• On the other hand, polygenic scores might help parents understand that a child’s lack of interest in higher education is not necessarily a sign of recalcitrance or laziness.
  — Robert Plomin, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• So too did the recalcitrance of many banks to underwrite development of leases in this politically sensitive area.
  — Timothy Fitzgerald, National Review, 11 Jan. 2021

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