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Resisting

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Present participle of resist

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Forte agreed with Arquette "100%" but said it was difficult to quantify the pay gap, or to know whether fault lay with female actors or agents for not pushing hard enough, or with executives for resisting equal pay.

Such was the new global consensus that Tibetan Buddhists resisting the radical "modernisation" of their society and landscape invited the scorn of Rupert Murdoch as well as of Hu Jintao.

He was expected to advocate some scaling-back of the investment banking division even before the losses but is resisting calls from some Swiss politicians to break up the bank to safeguard its private banking division.

With thousands of angry refugees stranded on the desert highway, and pro-Gaddafi gunmen still resisting inside the town, Libya's government has been left flat-footed by a crisis fast turning into its worst nightmare.

Then there the two years in high school when the bus driver hammered Dr Hook's Greatest Hits every single afternoon, resisting all entreaties to play something else or put on the radio.

It has a long and proud history of pushing boundaries and resisting political censorship.

The most important picture of Ada Colau, the leftwinger who won the mayoral race in Barcelona, shows her in a green T-shirt being arrested for resisting bailiffs.

It is understood that Gove is resisting any new policy that would force headteachers to commit to delivering specific numbers of hours of sport, or specific sums of money to it, because such a prescriptive approach conflicts with his view that heads should be left to decide their own priorities.

Hardin also represented Peterson in 2012 when he avoided being indicted by a grand jury after being charged with resisting arrest outside a Houston nightclub.

If you've laboured all morning successfully resisting Dairy Milk Oreo bars, you'll suffer "will fatigue" and be more likely to shout at your dog in the evening.

Protesters are resisting legislation that would enable 43-year-old Kabila, who has been in power for 14 years, to extend his term beyond 2016, when his second mandate ends.

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