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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.
In its fine arcaded courtyard, notice a bronze statue of Napoleon, who was responsible for turning the Brera into a national gallery with confiscations from the Church and recalcitrant nobles.
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."
We were easy prey for the safety crusaders who argued in the 1970s and '80s that drivers and their passengers could not be expected to buckle their seat belts and shoulder belts, and that the recalcitrant car companies should be required to install "passive restraints."
There was another attack on Gingrich in the liberal Guardian of London, which linked him with the recalcitrant Northern Irish Protestant leader, the Rev.