What's the difference between obedient and recalcitrant?

Obedient


Definition:

  • (a.) Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Devolution mitigated the authority but also undermined the obedience.
  • (2) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
  • (3) Obedience to authority has been implicated in hypnotic behaviour from the earliest theories.
  • (4) Before his speeches on race, he was an obedient, relatively undistinguished servant of the state.
  • (5) They are those who have chosen a following of Jesus that imitates his life in obedience to the Father, poverty, community life and chastity.
  • (6) Disillusioned voters saw that even the PSOE offered little more than cowed obedience to Merkel’s demands for more austerity.
  • (7) The result was that London had an authority to which Scotland had to be obedient.
  • (8) Some ethical implications for nursing practice are considered in relation to three issues: competence, honesty and obedience.
  • (9) The lesson is clear: when push comes to shove, obedience to God trumps human decency, to say nothing of obedience to the next commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
  • (10) Neither age nor sex differences in obedience rate were found.
  • (11) Benedict argued that the church will survive by becoming a smaller obedient Church, a just "remnant".
  • (12) But I want to highlight two specific points about all of this which relate to several of the topics I wrote about in my first week here, as well as some of the resulting reaction to that: First , there are multiple institutions that are intended to safeguard against this ease of inducing blind trust in and obedience to authorities.
  • (13) We should realise that as in many eastern societies, the existence of developed people with their own independent opinions is not too wide, and there are many statesmen who care only for obedience and full subordination.
  • (14) I love cats more than dogs, but the reason I love cats is because a cat would never deign to appear on an idiotic digital channel obedience programme.
  • (15) They had an excessive startle response, sometimes with echolalia, echopraxia, or forced obedience.
  • (16) But I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to Him and the Word of God.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pro and anti-gay marriage protesters converge on Kentucky clerk’s office.
  • (17) In Kingsley Amis’s The Alteration (1976), the Reformation has not happened and England remains a Roman Catholic country, obedient to the religious rule from Rome of a Yorkshire-born pontiff, who seems to be a caricature of Harold Wilson, British prime minister at the time Amis was writing.
  • (18) It is still a potentially incendiary work of art, very much concerned with the tipping point between mass obedience and unstoppable uprising.
  • (19) In this period what the papal encyclicals usually term "atheist communism" has spread a far wider sway over regions of traditional Roman Catholic obedience.
  • (20) One day the British were there, immovable, complete masters; next day, the Japanese, whom we derided, mocked as short, stunted people with short-sighted squint eyes.” After the second world war when the British were trying to reestablish control: “... the old mechanisms had gone and the old habits of obedience and respect (for the British) had also gone because people had seen them run away (from the Japanese) ... they packed up.

Recalcitrant


Definition:

  • (a.) Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on the principles of adaptational mutations and genetic exchange of catabolic activities, it becomes possible to select and engineer microorganisms that are suitable for the degradation of recalcitrant compounds.
  • (2) A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicentre study assessed the clinical efficacy and safety of pulsed electromagnetic limb ulcer therapy (PELUT) in the healing of recalcitrant, predominantly venous leg ulcers.
  • (3) We present a patient whose genital warts were recalcitrant to treatment.
  • (4) Isotretinoin (Accutane Capsules) is a synthetic vitamin A compound used for treatment of recalcitrant cystic acne.
  • (5) Such gene cassettes or operons can be transferred into suitable microbial hosts for extending and custom designing the pathways for rapid degradation of recalcitrant compounds.
  • (6) Of the 30 patients with warts, most of which were recalcitrant, 14 were cured and the remaining 16 showed marked improvement.
  • (7) This procedure is a simple and effective method for safe office treatment of patients with recalcitrant recurrent erosion.
  • (8) The thermal cycle sequencing procedures are advantageous because they allow fast and simple semiautomation of the sequencing reaction; make possible the direct DNA sequencing of PCR products, bacterial colonies and phage plaques; require only femtomoles of template DNA; eliminate the requirement of an independent primer annealing step; remove the requirement of denatured plasmids for sequencing double-stranded templates; and use a highly thermostable DNA polymerase for sequencing through potential recalcitrant secondary structure domains and large linear double-stranded DNA templates such as lambda derivatives.
  • (9) To study the human teratogenicity of this agent, we investigated 154 human pregnancies with fetal exposure to isotretinoin, a retinoid prescribed for severe recalcitrant cystic acne.
  • (10) The biosynthesis of prostaglandins (PG) in biopsies from 9 patients with recalcitrant psoriasis was studied before, during, and after treatment with 8-methoxy-psoralen and long-wave ultraviolet light (UVA).
  • (11) The Dec+ mutants had also acquired the capacity to metabolize other recalcitrant branched hydrocarbons such as 3,6-dimethyloctane and 2,6-dimethyldecane.
  • (12) Levamisole should be tried in recalcitrant chronic candidoses and bacterial infections not responding to specific antibiotic treatment.
  • (13) Thus, combination therapy is recommended for treatment of recalcitrant cases of bacterial endocarditis caused by N. mucosa.
  • (14) If the holding phase is sufficiently prolonged, a reduction in the number and complexity of operative procedures needed for recurrent and recalcitrant cases can be expected.
  • (15) Treatment of associated systemic disorders may improve the ulcers, but lesions may be recalcitrant and persist for months to years.
  • (16) Cyclosporine, an immunosuppressive drug, is effective in the treatment of recalcitrant psoriasis.
  • (17) In recalcitrant cases, however, entrapment of the first branch lateral plantar nerve should be suspected.
  • (18) These autonomous movements were otherwise recalcitrant to therapy and were felt to arise from neural generators intrinsic to the spinal cord.
  • (19) The effectiveness and tolerance of isotretinoin have been assessed in 72 cases (34 male and 38 female) suffering from papulo-pustular acne with nodulo-cystic component recalcitrant to traditional treatments.
  • (20) The government’s strategy is clearly based on a deep confidence that it has time, that it won’t be forced back to the polls by a recalcitrant Senate, that it will have years to reach a rapprochement with the angry states and that it will bring down two more budgets before it has to face the voters.