| His clothes are shabby, his shoes worn, but he is always ready to intervene if some of the young men become a bit obstreperous. |
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| They are now more likely to call a product obstreperous than blame themselves for their ineptitude. |
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| In fact, a 1936 survey found that the WEA had created an articulate and obstreperous working-class intelligentsia. |
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| Anyway, I'm feeling obstreperous, so what exactly should the US do in the conduct of future war? |
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| He sticks to his mission, getting the obstreperous children into school and helping them become learners. |
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| The obstreperous emails in question focus on Norway's economic relationship with the European Union. |
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| Already he could hear the growing clamor of his three obstreperous children. |
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| The guard was armed with a long spear and a knife, the goat with only his tiny sharp teeth and his severely obstreperous attitude. |
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| What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? |
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| Some of them can be very demanding and ungrateful, even obstreperous and fractious. |
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| At 178 pounds was the one and only Cassius Clay, who was cantankerous, garrulous and obstreperous. |
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| Most of the young people he'd come into contact with thought any music which wasn't loud and obstreperous was a waste of ears. |
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| He liked to drink, colleagues say, and would occasionally get obstreperous. |
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| Steve King, an obstreperous congressman from Iowa, plans a lawsuit to try to get the president's initiative on young illegals rescinded. |
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| They will be asked whether they were in bed with the Bloc, whether those two parties were being obstreperous. |
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| It's very important to get used to volunteering, to being obstreperous publicly as citizens at a time when you don't have any money. |
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| Yeah, they may have been extreme or obstreperous or this or that, but they were good. |
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| Lots of things got in the way of that, notably the lousy economy, and secondly the obstreperous Republicans. |
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| Even the messiest, most obstreperous books are reduced to a litany of bullet points, or a single bullet point. |
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| And they'll indicate whether a patient was noisy and needed medication or if they were obstreperous and perhaps needed to be placed in a straight jacket or tied to the bed. |
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| This is what your boyfriend did, honey. When he was in one of his more obstreperous moods. |
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| He developed an obstreperous baritone... and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not. |
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| In time the obstreperous Texicans developed revolutionary ideas. |
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| When they return to Ottawa in the autumn, the caucus may prove obstreperous, perhaps blocking social measures, such as an overhaul of the Indian Act. |
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| Brazil's obstreperous Congress, which is dominated by unreliable allies of the government and outright opponents, has so far not managed to thwart them. |
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| In fact, it takes longer now than it used to, because environmental regulations have become more onerous and activists more obstreperous around the world. |
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| My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful. |
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