(a.) Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, lawyers say the prosecution has partly been hamstrung by an obstreperous police force that would prefer to drag its feet than help incriminate its own leaders.
(2) An obstreperous cabinet minister, such as Gordon Brown, can simply tell No 10 they cannot work with a proposed junior.
(3) Meanwhile, its Syrian branch plays a significant (and, some argue, obstreperous) role in the country's ongoing civil war .
(4) Or is the citizen rightfully an unpredictable source of obstreperous demands and assertions of rights?
(5) His antisemitism, his obstreperous nationalistic rants were one side of his personality; his art another.
(6) He could be awkward and obstreperous, and some of his involvement in transfer dealings was murky, but Keshi was, at international level, the finest African coach of his generation and he was fun to be around.
(7) Not too long ago, Chris Christie, the obstreperous governor of New Jersey, liked to tout something he called a "Jersey Comeback".
(8) Rare is the week that passes without the Daily Mail or Daily Telegraph, both keen critics of David Cameron's coalition deal, taking a poke at the energy and climate change secretary as its most obstreperous symbol.
(9) To evaluate the usefulness and reliability of the Caretaker Obstreperous-Behavior Rating Assessment (COBRA), a new test instrument for caretaker assessment of types and severity of "obstreperous behaviors" (OBs) in demented patients.
(10) Even the most obstreperous teenagers showed us their warmth – the head to head interviews with the students helped us to see their humanity and, as the staff did, we liked them and sympathised with them, despite their capacity to behave like Catherine Tate's "Lauren" on occasion.
(11) They say the 24-hour media cycle, that amplifies every trivial misstep and has little patience for complex argument, the Senate voting system that throws up obstreperous upper houses and the negativity of recent oppositions has just made it too tricky to do anything hard.
(12) The world's most famous Luxembourger is now involved in an existential fight for his own political survival: a fight in which he can claim the highest principles of democracy to be on his side against Britain's bullying obstreperousness.
(13) I thought it was pessimistic, he insisted it wasn’t, and when I refused to change my mind he called me an “obstreperous bastard”.
(14) At the centre of it all, driving the economic vortex that is controlling public life, are "The Markets", a merciless, amoral, almost mythical force, behaving with the irrational self-indulgence of a particularly obstreperous Greek god.
(15) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opens 20 September First Chicago Architecture Biennial A pet project of Rahm Emanuel, the Windy City’s obstreperous mayor, this city-spanning new initiative looks at the state of the building arts in America’s second Gilded Age.
Tumultuous
Definition:
(a.) Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.
(a.) Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
(a.) Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.
(a.) Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds-HBOS at the end of a tumultuous month in the global markets following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank.
(2) In countries such as Sri Lanka, child survival and health for all by the year 2000 often seem to be impossible goals, given the tumultuous socioeconomic and political conditions.
(3) Macedonia’s decision to tighten its border with Greece, allowing only Syrians and Iraqis to pass through into the EU, has created tumultuous scenes along its border fence.
(4) You had a tumultuous tenure as editor of The Lady during which you got into trouble with the proprietors for carrying an interview with Tracey Emin in which she talked about sewing being a good distraction from masturbation.
(5) David Cameron began to form his first government comprised solely of Conservative cabinet members on Friday after being delivered an overall Commons majority by a tumultuous election.
(6) However, the case has now been transferred to pre-court.” Criticising the British government over its handling of his wife’s case, Ratcliffe suggested that the tumultuous politics surrounding the EU referendum had lessened interest in her fate.
(7) The latest exchanges set the stage for a tumultuous first session of prime minister's questions on Wednesday following the summer break, when the issue of Syria is certain to dominate.
(8) The announcement by Conservative party central office that Rowland would not be taking the post due to his "developing business interests" capped a tumultuous summer for the property developer who, soon after the Tories announced that he would take over as their treasurer, became the subject of a string of stories in the Daily Mail that sought to paint his business dealings and personal life in a controversial light.
(9) But Rolls is a sound business.” Rishton oversaw a tumultuous period for Rolls that included a string of profit warnings, the first fall in sales for a decade, and the Serious Fraud Office launching an investigation into corruption allegations.
(10) Hume has a reputation for restraint rather than excess, for steady endeavour rather than tumultuous creativity.
(11) The allegations come at the end of a tumultuous week.
(12) I’m delighted.” There were chunks of empty seats in the Hull end at Wembley but the noise inside the stadium was tumultuous, an indication of the stakes at hand.
(13) The tumultuous and often bitter EU referendum campaign has left the two rival camps – Remain and Leave – locked in a dramatic dead heat with just four days to go before the British people decide their European future.
(14) Prof Gillian Leng, the deputy chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), said that "for many young people on the cusp of adulthood, moving between health and social-care services can be a tumultuous and stressful time.
(15) I covered Berlusconi's first successful election, in 1994, after four tumultuous years as Rome correspondent, during which an entire political class had come under investigation and much of it under arrest – even the pillar of Italy's opaque establishment, the prime minister and Christian Democrat leader, Giulio Andreotti.
(16) This is a very difficult and tumultuous time for Somalis and Muslims in the US.” The crime of “material support” carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.
(17) For councils as politically tumultuous as this north-west London borough, the idea that a political leader can provide stability and long-term direction is naive.
(18) Poland's recent past has been so much more tumultuous and tragic than ours.
(19) 9 November: A tumultuous day begins with an emergency meeting of the system’s governing board and Wolfe resigns.
(20) Evidence is presented here that an excess of OT in fetal blood over that found in maternal plasma was associated with hypertonic, irregular, tumultuous or prolonged labor and with mild to moderate fetal hypoxia and fetal distress peculiar to abnormal uterine contractions.