Sheep proved recalcitrant.
Unfortunately, the bishops have always proved recalcitrant.
Similarly Hizbullah, having tasted the sense but not the reality of victory (and egged on by Syria and Iran) may prove recalcitrant.
Opera remained the one medium that proved recalcitrant to Dvořák's genius, though he wrote 10 of them, notably Rusalka (1900).
When the world proved recalcitrant, the President was too disengaged to do it himself, and he didn't give his Secretary of State the chance.
Only when puzzles repeatedly prove recalcitrant does the community begin to develop a sense that something may be amiss; the unsolved puzzles acquire a new status, being seen as anomalies.
The English Parliament, called especially to vote money for the war, proved recalcitrant, and Strafford, in command of the English army, failed to prevent the Scots from overrunning the northern counties.
His earliest efforts were with his puppet theatre; the puppets proved recalcitrant and - "embittered by the failure of local or central government to finance me" - he turned to conjuring; at one performance he literally brought the house down, having an unforeseen thaumaturgical triumph in making the entire audience disappear.
The DRT framework is of interest to philosophers of language primarily because it has enabled perspicuous treatments of a range of natural language phenomena that have proved recalcitrant over many years, for example the phenomena involving donkey anaphora, tense and presupposition discussed above.
(Just in time for delayed-action budget reconciliation, should the Republicans prove recalcitrant).
The habits and propensities of the self prove recalcitrant and never admit of wholesale reinvention.
