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Jesse Helms, R-N.C., persuading a recalcitrant Congress to ratify the chemical weapons conventions, and pushing for NATO expansion.
But we would not allow such apparently recalcitrant sensory experience to change our minds about the original sentence.
Governor Frederick Weld (1880–1887) extended the residency system to Negeri Sembila n and the more recalcitrant Pahang, where the Sultan Wan Ahmad was forced to open the Kuantan tin mines to British prospectors.
Ha'aretz said in its editorial Wednesday that he and "the recalcitrant political fringes to which he was captive" had effectively frozen the Oslo agreements but that Barak "now has a renewed opportunity to make peace with the Palestinians and to attain a real peace with all our neighbors, with Syria at the head."
When the famous unifiers Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa fought to end the 16th-century civil wars, Hideyoshi used Himeji as a base of operations against the recalcitrant warlords of Western Honshu.