The phrase "actually resist" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the act of resisting something in a genuine or real manner, often in contrast to a perceived or expected response.
Example: "Despite the temptation, she was able to actually resist the urge to indulge in dessert."
Alternatives: "truly resist" or "genuinely resist".
"Not that many actually resisted," said Filip Reyntjens, a professor of African law and politics at the University of Antwerp.
Mr. Gaultier actually resisted the show ("For me, an exhibition like that is for people when they are dead," he said), but he acquiesced when its curators presented a modern treatment with thematic displays and talking mannequins.
The C.I.A. officials said that the agency had actually resisted pressure from the White House, especially from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, to show a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda, and insisted that they would not have created a document that would have undercut the agency.
The word "groupie," once a pejorative — implying, at its worst, a kind of mindless, sycophantic allegiance to famous men — has since been reclaimed by the women it was intended to shame, although it remains unclear whether those women ever actually resisted the characterization in the first place.
It is all the more important to display remains of the Berlin Wall and explain its history, since the building of the Berlin Wall was really the brainchild of the East German leadership, not the Soviet leadership, which actually resisted the East German leader's pleas to seal off the border in Berlin for eight years before finally giving in.
An opposing position holds that these individuals actually resisted change.
"When they move to Canada, [migrants] may have a lot of challenges, especially trans people who face a lot of discrimination and can use sex work actually to resist a lot of oppression from their family or racism," Lam said.
"It is the same reasons that made people resist, actually the same reasons," he said of the two insurrections.
A canny invention that recognized that while Americans love to get into the car and go somewhere, they resist actually experiencing the outside world, the drive-in caught on quickly.
Though many cellphone owners express growing displeasure about cellphones' intrusions into their lives, according to Pew, a tiny and most likely shrinking number actually manage to resist them completely.
