The support of the traditionally diehard unionist Daily Express was to counterweigh the opposition of more recalcitrant Conservatives. |
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The Commissioner's powers to approve, audit and discipline recalcitrant players are uncertain in the Bill. |
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It may be possible to chip away at recalcitrant citizens by portraying the obstinate allies as mischievous or worse. |
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The Belgians in the Congo, the French in Algeria, practiced torture and sexual humiliation on despised recalcitrant natives. |
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The country's second, third, and fourth cities lay in these recalcitrant districts, so the Federalist challenge could scarcely be brushed aside. |
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Rugged, mountainous, impenetrable, recalcitrant and peopled by an enemy hardened and fanatical, it was considered unconquerable. |
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Organizations are powerful tools, however recalcitrant, but they can also be very presumptuous and overconfident. |
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A recalcitrant province insists it won't play the odds when deciding how to dispose of Crown land in British Columbia. |
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Backtrack now to the point at which the impressively recalcitrant Bilbo is being soundly berated by Gandalf. |
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Richardson held out the ball, with outstanding generosity, like someone trying to placate a recalcitrant child with a gobstopper. |
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And how do you finger the recalcitrant citizenry who persist in just slinging it all in the bin rather than diligently sorting it? |
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The representative defended the disconnections, claiming that the company had simply cut off recalcitrant debtors. |
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At every machine an earnest young person pumps bleakly away, intimidatingly burning those extra pounds, trimming those recalcitrant inches. |
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Her inability to retain information frustrated her teachers and private tutors, who thought she was being deliberately recalcitrant. |
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Knowing that the book is devoted to obscenity, the viewer strives to make these recalcitrant shapes congeal into something naughty. |
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However, water stress interacting with CO2 enhanced the shift of the carbon from the labile pool to recalcitrant pool. |
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A widely disseminated medieval version of the song offers us a different image of an angry and recalcitrant woman-hater. |
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Residents' associations should be authorised to fine recalcitrant drivers who do not turn up at fixed timings. |
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She has compared recalcitrant education officials to children who need to be disciplined. |
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Like those before him, Horowitz pooh-poohs the idea of a recalcitrant left waking up to the error of its anti-war protesting ways. |
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The code of ethics falls short of the expectations of many because there are no clear-cut penalties stated for recalcitrant legislators. |
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After a few attempts at opening the recalcitrant portal, Black realised it was a security door. |
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How else to explain the chronic neglect of a program that effectively fights some of our most pernicious and recalcitrant social problems? |
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He was often handed the difficult and recalcitrant patients by his bosses and he hadn't failed one yet. |
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There was a shout of triumph as the carpenters struggling with the recalcitrant arbalest finally managed to string the bow. |
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Accustomed to yelling at recalcitrant dogs and pushy hunt followers, Ferry exudes authority and self-possession. |
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Southern states were somewhat recalcitrant, and some even maintained a separate holiday to honor Confederate war dead. |
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This often is a difficult feat particularly because the ITA does not have subpoena power to force responses from recalcitrant respondents. |
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This attitude is comparable to a recalcitrant physician who views an emergency medical technician or paramedic as an underling, rather than as an ally. |
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It is a moral challenge to determine how to comport oneself simultaneously in relation to abstract ideas and a recalcitrant world. |
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It is much harder for American shareholders, for example, to force out recalcitrant directors. |
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John was unfailingly calm, cheerful, and good-humoured, even when he had to engage in some arm-twisting of recalcitrant reviewers. |
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For many years, proponents of territorial cohesion thus opted for a didactic strategy toward their most recalcitrant partners. |
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If it's Heathrow, Javid will be expected to go to war with recalcitrant cabinet colleagues. |
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They are also fired by sectarian hatred for the other side, historic hatred of the police and, dare we say it, recalcitrant republican ideology. |
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I do not blame you for that, Prime Minister, I blame recalcitrant governments elsewhere in Europe. |
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I am sure that some are more recalcitrant when it comes to getting them to do work or whatever. |
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I do not mean handing over money, or handing out sweeteners to recalcitrant members reluctant to go along with a policy. |
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At first recalcitrant, the country's lawyers have begun to take an interest and participate in the Civic Forum. |
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If on occasion some Amerindians proved to be recalcitrant or hostile, an expeditionary force was simply sent in to subdue them. |
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In effect, as the data shows, the more recalcitrant the employer's stance, the less chance there is for recovery. |
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By breaking free of strategies from the past, we stop wanting to incorporate new participants who may later prove recalcitrant. |
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In her annual reports, she can reprimand recalcitrant federal institutions. |
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The first hint of the double-toilet-style operations issues came as the recalcitrant fifth Olympic ring refused to open. |
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These willfully ignorant, recalcitrant obstructionists are doing the country a tremendous service. |
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Endangered species of pawpaw trees in Florida, for example, grow what botanists call recalcitrant seeds, which don't survive drying and freezing in seed banks. |
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It would decentralize international authority, allowing states to defend their interests without waiting for the go ahead from one recalcitrant sovereign. |
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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. |
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Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself. |
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It seems puzzling why the president is so determined to battle recalcitrant Senate Republicans over the size and makeup of the tax-cut legislation. |
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At the same time, he did not mind appealing to the council to discipline recalcitrant citizens who played tennis in the town square while he was preaching on Sunday. |
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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. |
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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. |
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For the recalcitrant, reformers might propose a variety of modest steps. |
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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. |
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The CWA is planning a full-scale lobby day next Wednesday, Cohen said, in an effort to twist the arms of recalcitrant lawmakers. |
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In the comments he compares the pleasure he gets from working his will on a recalcitrant domestic appliance to the triumph a caveman felt when slaying a mastodon. |
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A sequence of senior staff members butted heads with the charismatic editor, but the magazine's intellectual identity was as recalcitrant as its finances. |
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He can force ministers and virtually anyone to bend to his will, and if they are recalcitrant he could call their bluff and take the case to the people. |
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Litter with high concentrations of lignin or other recalcitrant compounds mineralizes nitrogen more slowly than does litter with more labile carbon compounds. |
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In this spectacular climax, part oneiric and fantastical, the house on fire becomes, in its pyrotechnical wizardry, a final recalcitrant figure to Australian suburban space. |
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The tale involves a millionaire in Claridges, recalcitrant descendants of Boswell and old boxes in a dusty granary in Ireland. It has become clear that Boswell was no mere infatuated scribe. |
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Here, the nation-state, the current guarantor of the stability and security of our societies, becomes a force recalcitrant to any change that might make it obsolete or weaken its influence and its power. |
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Chlorambucil is an effective corticosteroid-sparing agent for recalcitrant pyoderma gangrenosum. |
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Some units, in particular those present in the centre and south of the country, are considered to be recalcitrant to his authority and to refuse to obey his orders. |
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Rural misadventures of rampaging chickens and recalcitrant horses, battered and bruised farmers and a keen sense of the absurdity of the universe, or at least of one's own existence. |
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However, his objective was to put down a recalcitrant vassal rather than to begin a war of conquest. |
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In several graphic scenes, committed environmental campaigners use a detonator to blow up recalcitrant members of the public, including two schoolchildren and the ex-footballer David Ginola. |
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Benjamin Disraeli is quoted as telling a recalcitrant M. P. In Disraeli's novel Coningsby, however, we get an idea of why he held this seemingly wrong-headed attitude. |
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Given the breadth of the territory and the military strategy favoured by the recalcitrant militias, it is an open question as to whether MONUC will ever be able to bring peace the whole of Ituri. |
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But for a new recalcitrant minority, like those I encountered at the edge of the euphoria in Derry city centre last Tuesday, one terrible wrong righted will never be enough. |
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It is likely that the odd animal — a packhorse, a hog, a rattler, a recalcitrant steer, perhaps, or a mountain lion — took a go at distressing them. |
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He would often forge ahead fearlessly into newly deregulating markets, bully recalcitrant regulators into speeding reforms and develop clever financial vehicles that pressed to the very edge of the law. |
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In terms of British tourism, the overpowering message from the Queen's successful tour was that Anglophobia, if not fully dead in the Republic, is now confined to a tiny minority of recalcitrant republicans. |
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In days gone by, recalcitrant servants were thrashed. |
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In my opinion, recalcitrant municipalities should be urged to follow suit. |
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This condition, which may be suggestive of loose bodies or recalcitrant tennis elbow, can be diagnosed arthroscopically and treated by excision of the plica. |
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Caillat unlodges recalcitrant scales with a hard brush before weighing the fish he has removed from the scaling machine. |
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This allows the Commission to pursue payment of monetary awards from recalcitrant respondents through means such as wage garnishees, and execution orders against real and personal property, etc. |
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Pathetic isn't it, the way they drag it around whichever block it is that they're currently tenanting, as if it were a recalcitrant old pampered doggie. |
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More passionate, more easily provoked and therefore more human, Coughlin won the personality contest between these reputably recalcitrant Super Bowl coaches, hands down. |
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The recalcitrant slaughterers are still the same ones. |
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After the MPA victory over ARLA, only the FIAA remained recalcitrant. |
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The additional training imposed by this stimulation programme on muscles not sufficiently receptive to traditional training provides a solution for the harmonious development of all muscle groups without recalcitrant areas. |
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Faced with this proletarian upheaval, the bureaucracy was fracturing, with recalcitrant military commanders refusing to follow orders to suppress the protests. |
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We blame-ourselves for failing at the parenting task, or our children for being recalcitrant, or television for distracting them, or the school system for not being strict enough. |
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Numerous advances continue to be made in the development of processes to biodegrade even some of the most recalcitrant compounds, such as chlorinated organics. |
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Once the communities began to regard immigration as a way of ensuring their future, a certain momentum was created that brought even the most recalcitrant on board. |
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All of Saxony, except for Nordalbingia was under his control, but the recalcitrant Saxons would not submit for long. |
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Disc dispersers are used to detach and comminute recalcitrant ink in paper recycling operations. |
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There was something in her manner so reminiscent of the school teacher reprimanding a recalcitrant pupil that Mr. Snyder's sense of humor came to his rescue. |
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The blasters are those beams of ravening destruction which take care of recalcitrant meteorites in a spaceship's course when the deflectors can't handle them. |
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It was later shown that the main reason for halting shipments east was not the behavior of the USSR but rather the recalcitrant behavior of France. |
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As the drama progresses, Dionysus coaxes Thebes's recalcitrant monarch into a disastrous continuation of his earlier impiety against the god and his mother, Semele. |
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PicoWay utilizes proprietary PicoWay technology to generate picosecond pulses for the treatment of pigmented lesions and tattoos, including recalcitrant tattoos. |
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From 1364, David governed with vigour, dealing firmly with recalcitrant nobles and wider baronial revolt, and continued to pursue the goal of final peace with England. |
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Bracton gave samples of writs that could be used in the case of a recalcitrant Bishop who refused to produce a witness for the common law or king's court. |
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The Hansa had no legal status, independent finances or a common institutional framework, while the major weapon against recalcitrant members was the threat of embargo. |
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