Sentence examples for recalcitrant enemy from inspiring English sources
Liddell Hart, veteran of the carnage in the trenches of World War I, offered up the rambunctious and uncouth Sherman as the true humanist, who found a way, by burning rather than killing, to compel a recalcitrant enemy to concede while still alive.
Yes, Rome could be savage in punishing rebels and recalcitrant enemies.
If we continue to be recalcitrant in identifying who the enemy is and to be less offensive to them, then we're gonna put ourselves in a bad situation".
Already, Bosnia's recalcitrant Serbs see NATO troops as the enemy and may snipe at them.
Perhaps Horovitz should direct some of his bile away from Israelis and toward the more recalcitrant of his country's remaining Arab enemies, but this is the book of an Israeli patriot nonetheless, one who believes his adopted country can be better than it is today, and one who does not believe that hate has to last forever.
Hence he attempted to tap the resources of the imperial cities by demanding heavy taxes, and he threatened to mortgage recalcitrant cities to the neighbouring princes, their chief enemies.
However, it is one thing to analyze tactics in the abstract but entirely another thing to put theory into practice under different circumstances, on different kinds of terrain, against different kinds of enemy, with the aid of troops who may be tired or confused or recalcitrant, and amid every kind of mortal danger.
Sheep proved recalcitrant.
(11)Recalcitrant account holder.
Bosnian Serbs were recalcitrant.
