Sentence examples for growing recalcitrant from inspiring English sources

Compact, slow growing, recalcitrant colonies can withstand higher levels of exposure to toxins or antimicrobials, permitting the establishment of persistent infections, while dispersed rapidly growing pathogens appear more destructive.

She tries to parse the extreme ways in which her emotions and behaviors shift during her menstrual cycle, to the point of naming certain sections of her book after its phases ("Ovulating," "PMS," "Bleeding"), reports on her experiments with anti-depressants, and worries about her increasingly stormy relationship with Miles, who grows recalcitrant and unhelpful as Heti muddles through her dilemma.

But banks have grown more recalcitrant about committing to lending agreements since then, as they have been largely unable to resell the loans and bonds used to finance leveraged buyouts without incurring a loss.

This notion is supported by the absence of detectable endoglucanase activity from the strain of S. thermophilum used in the present study whereas it has been reported that other strains of S. thermophilum produce endoglucanase and other cellulases when grown on recalcitrant polysaccharides (Hayashida and Mo 1986; Ögel et al. 2001; Poças-Fonseca et al. 2000).

In contrast, OPPPs attach to pipe surfaces and grow as recalcitrant biofilms in low-nutrient, stagnant water.

Disruption of the A. nidulans pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase, pkpA, resulted in the loss of an ability to grow on recalcitrant cellulose, which represents an alternative carbon source that requires the utilization of fatty acids for the synthesis of cellulolytic enzymes (Brown et al. 2013).

As the initial concentration of substrate increases, the rate constant k1 decreases and this can be described to a growing importance of the recalcitrant fraction in reducing the diffusivity of the biodegradable substance.

He further complained, "Notables, with their diminished influence, are almost inert in relation to the growing number of their recalcitrant subjects" and suggested that a chief could hardly control more than 5,000 people.

St. Martin was initially overwhelmed with gratitude to Beaumont for saving his life, but as he recovered he grew surly and recalcitrant, sick of the entire project.

This is due to the fact that bacteria growing in a biofilm state are very recalcitrant to antibiotic treatment.

The growing resistance to anti-TB drugs and the recalcitrant nature of tenacious infections present arduous challenges for the treatment of TB.