Sentence examples for a general resistance from inspiring English sources

There is a general resistance to any new construction that isn't strictly low-rise.

The company's challenges here are the same as those facing any innovative group in Italy: deeply entrenched regional and local interests, a painstakingly slow-moving judicial system, stodgy bureaucracy and a general resistance to change.

Mr. Obama, in his speech before the 100th anniversary convention of the National Urban League, acknowledged "some controversy" about his education initiative, which he attributed partly to "a general resistance to change, a comfort with the status quo".

They were restricted to a reservation and encouraged to take up agriculture, but government mismanagement of the annuities, depleted game reserves, and a general resistance to an agricultural lifestyle combined to precipitate starvation on the reservation by 1862.

Looking closely at the first part of the show, you may pick up on a few distinguishing characteristics of Spanish drawing: a frenetic pen line, a liberated attitude toward the figure and a general resistance to the strictures of Italian classicism.

"There is a general resistance to doing art from people who don't think of themselves as artistic, but it's a profound opportunity to get to the bottom of feelings and issues.

"We all agreed to the 2002 reform," says Catherine Colonna, France's Europe minister, "and it cannot be changed until 2013 .But there is also a more general resistance to reform that reflects the special place of farming in the French imagination.

To summarize, we believe that a high general resistance level in Yellow-legged Gulls in the south of France is a result of long-time direct or indirect exposure to human activities in an area with relatively high antibiotic pressure.

However, their data come with a similar word of warning: using these combinations at low doses can select for both increased rates of resistance and a more general resistance mechanism relative to single herbicide treatment.

Based on the in vitro observations and other in vivo observations, this unique phenotype appears to be a true general resistance against cancer cells that may extend to additional mouse cancer cell lines.

The molecular basis for the accelerated tumorigenesis in relation to PIDDosome formation, however, remains unresolved but proposed to be accounted for by a more general resistance of Caspase-2-deficient cells to oncogenic stress or DNA damage.