If either India or Pakistan proved recalcitrant, it would risk international isolation.
The scrutators have unique forms of excruciation, should you prove recalcitrant.
"And in case we proved recalcitrant, you brought along your phaser."
If a slave continues to prove recalcitrant, of course, she gains nothing by this.
"If he proves recalcitrant I have the team ready."
Some of the older ones are proving recalcitrant; they can be prone to moodiness.
But their allies among the Cambodian factions are proving recalcitrant.
With a little luck, the new wing commander would prove less recalcitrant than Leonidas had been.
He could hardly prove more recalcitrant , Joseph thought.
But he proved recalcitrant to academic discipline, and abandoned the institute to paint on his own.