But the mere threat of resignation brought the most recalcitrant to reason.

Even the most recalcitrant opponents seem to relent when he arrives among them.

But times have changed and even the most recalcitrant investor must have noticed that.

I took Sièyes in hand as the most recalcitrant.

He could flood a theatre with passion and squeeze the juice out of the most recalcitrant prose.

Recurrent SCLC is among the most recalcitrant cancers and drug development efforts in this cancer are a high priority.

He meant a form of torture so hideous that it was rarely used even on the most recalcitrant of prisoners.

The most recalcitrant subjects with whom Pichou had to deal in all these matters were the team of Ovide Boulianne.

And so I dig through London clay, the most recalcitrant material imaginable, in the hopes of finding evidence of those deaths.

The most recalcitrant were forced to give in, not without ceasing to rob us very much in the dealings they had with us.

Last week, authorities were installed in the towns of Kidal - seen as the north's most recalcitrant bastion of Tuareg separatism - and Menaka.

When Hest wished to, he could charm the most recalcitrant tavern owner into keeping his doors open and paying his minstrels for an extra hour.

'It is,' Ghorr replied, 'but Vithis of Clan Inthis is a most recalcitrant man.'