Sentence examples for while recalcitrant from inspiring English sources

Conventional till showed lower labile C values while recalcitrant C was higher in the intercrop treatment.

Overall, results pointed to a two-phase DOC export whereby mobile and bioavailable fractions of DOC in surface water (protein-like DOC) are produced throughout the watershed (including the wetland), while recalcitrant humic-like DOC fractions are predominantly generated by the wetland, before preferentially sedimenting out in the lake.

The outcome of these contrasting pathogenic strategies is distinct, with dispersed pathogens commonly causing acute infections, while recalcitrant sessile communities promote persistent infections.

Re "A Mission Imperiled" (editorial, Aug. 20): While the recalcitrant countries of the United Nations General Assembly fought us through decades of the cold war, the Palestinian morass, Serbia, Afghanistan and now in Iraq, we forged ahead to defeat or ameliorate the threat.

It was widely touted, even while suppressing recalcitrant diversity, as the carrier of political and economic modernity to backward peoples; and modernity itself was defined explicitly as social justice and gender equality, expedited through planned and protected industrial growth.

Efforts by the administration to transfer or prosecute most of the remaining detainees have stalled, while a recalcitrant Congress has stymied even modest attempts to reduce the prison population.

While the recalcitrant rightist government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left Israel more isolated in the world than at any time since 1948, Bibi's ill-advised recent speech to a joint session of Congress could reduce a historically nonpartisan alliance between Israel and America to a hyperpartisan scheme between the Likud Party and the GOP.

Meanwhile in the Jones household, as Clara improves herself through the Open University's "isms and schisms", her daughter Irie falls in love with Millat, while battling the recalcitrant African follicle with a disastrous pursuit of hair "flickability".

Deconstruction of biomass by enzymes is perceived as recalcitrant while an inclusive breakdown mechanism remains to be discovered.

In a recent Facebook photo Boo appears recalcitrant while going for a walk, the rear of his sidekick Buddy visible to the right of the shot.

Greenblatt continued to praised Rihanna's vocal performance, writing: "Even while telling a recalcitrant man how hard he is to love, she sounds almost buoyant, her newly expanded vocals eager to scale the song's high-altitude house beat".