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Discover LudwigThe phrase "adequately resisted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something has successfully opposed or fought against a challenge or influence to a satisfactory degree.
Example: "Despite the overwhelming odds, the team adequately resisted the pressure to abandon their principles."
Alternatives: "sufficiently opposed" or "effectively countered".
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They are also working on challenging gender discrimination within the UK immigration system – a system that can still ask whether a rape victim had adequately resisted her rapist, or whether a trafficked woman had enjoyed her work as a prostitute.
These drives have not been adequately resisted in the West.
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It failed the test, which meant it did not adequately resist the spread of fire and breached building regulations guidance.
The fact that, as Dr Lane concludes, the cladding of Grenfell Tower clearly did not adequately resist the spread of flame and on the contrary promoted it, is also sufficient to show non-compliance together with the absence of proof of compliance.
(The proponents of eugenics and cloning of man are extremely upset by this, but I hope that the Homo sapiens species will adequately resist their efforts, so that the mankind will not perish being transformed into Superhomo asexualis).
"The assembly failed adequately to resist the spread of fire to an extent that supported the required 'stay put' strategy for this high-rise residential building," Dr Lane said.
Although, the mixture of like-charged nanoparticle and surfactant gives a slightly better static stability than the other one in both presence and absence of oil, both foams are not adequately able to resist oil destroying effects.
The army has insisted it is adequately protected from extremists, but has resisted security assistance from the United States that it considers too invasive.
But residents of this Gulf Coast city have long resisted the local tax increases needed to finance their schools adequately.
With respect to the studied housing, the predicted pushover responses for the masonry structures denote capacity to resist earthquakes adequately.
In sunshine or moonlight, on fragrant mountain or sandy beach, Hawaii wages a gentle assault on the senses that few visitors can resist or adequately describe.
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