recalcitrance

recalcitrant | American Dictionary

recalcitrant
adjective
us/rɪˈkæl·sɪ·trənt/
unwilling to do what you are asked or ordered to do, even if it is reasonable:
Tenants petitioned their recalcitrant landlord to finish repairs to their building.

Examples of recalcitrant

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Specific mechanisms associated with desiccation sensitivity of recalcitrant seeds are still not resolved.
At a practical level there are some encouraging results from attempts to extend the storage lifespan of some recalcitrant seeds.
Seeds of durian do contain storage proteins, and this is one of the first studies to explore storage protein deposition in this recalcitrant seed.
Recalcitrant seeds usually have no period of quiescence and germinate shortly after fruit abscission.
This school holds that recalcitrant problems in syntax and especially semantics should be given solutions found with the assistance of an independently motivated pragmatic theory.
He himself will not forget to claim his ' kola ' or rightful ' part ', as occurs when the potential donor seems distracted or recalcitrant.
Although recalcitrant seeds are common in mesic tropical forests, they are by no means confined to these systems.
Recalcitrant seeds cannot survive desiccation to the range of water contents where the longevity of orthodox seeds increases with decreasing water content.
They showed fictionalised encounters between a range of recalcitrant youths and the authorities.
Due to their sensitivity to desiccation and/or low temperatures, recalcitrant and intermediate seeds are reputed to have a relatively short life span.
Some temperate recalcitrant seeds are shed in spring and become established seedlings during summer.
The constraint may function as a default setting, remaining in force only as long as the environment is not too recalcitrant.
These discussions have had significant impacts on our views about the phenomena of desiccation tolerance and sensitivity, and the physiology of recalcitrant seeds.
This meant imposing bureaucratic standards of rationality and accountability on recalcitrant professors, academic senates, and rectors.
These results allow the four species to be classified as recalcitrant seed species.
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