recalcitrants in a sentence

1. Now, we are not saying that those recalcitrants will fully embrace the light.

2. However, the recalcitrants have now been bludgeoned into accepting the alleged necessity of extending NATO.

3. The king regarded this as an insult and ordered all the meetings of the "Pickarts" to be suppressed, all their books to be burnt, and the recalcitrants to be imprisoned (1508).

4. Indeed, as his left camp followers complain, Chávez has not even purged many individual recalcitrants from his military and police command, as happens after almost every Latin American coup.

5. With this in mind, Francis may have just signaled that he is preparing to put the squeeze on the SSPX and other traditional recalcitrants who are considered to have so-called “partial communion.”

6. Such is the famous distinction between right and fact, which was henceforth to be the basis of their resistance, and through which the recalcitrants pretended to remain Catholics, united to the visible body of Christ despite all their obstinacy.

7. After 50 years of ambiguity, of the two implacably opposed “paradigms” living in an uneasy truce within the same institution, those few recalcitrants left who refused to accept the new liturgical forms, new theological “formulations,” the new disciplines are being forced either to conform or leave.