Modifies a noun

• employer: Similarly, the recalcitrant employer might seek to argue that the union does not come with clean hands.

• material: This opens up the possibility that a simple process can be developed for the elimination of these recalcitrant materials from effluents.

• member: His struggle to accommodate recalcitrant team members resonated with my experiences coaching 25 years of Oxford Boat Race crews.

• party: Indeed in the past, a referral by the Commission to the ECJ was synonymous with a conviction of the recalcitrant party.

• state: Some recalcitrant states can claim the dubious honor of having failed to ratify either convention.

• child: No longer can the dog eat the recalcitrant child 's homework!

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: One particularly recalcitrant problem is described in Menzies ( 1989 ).