Sentence examples for and resisting in the from inspiring English sources

This is a President who has been stubbornly dedicated to extricating the United States as much as possible from its post-9/11 wars and resisting — in the absence of any good options for decisive action — being drawn into Syria's catastrophic civil war.

"What other city would want us?" London is both emulated and resisted, in the much scorned mini-Millennium Wheels of Sheffield, Manchester and Birmingham, and the blow-in residents of Bristol who, according to Tim X Atack's narrator, "think this town is London, except cheaper".

In an earlier phase of his career, Hitchens tells us, "I resolved to try and resist in my own life the jaded reaction that makes one coarsened to the ugly habits of power".

We know today that this recognition is hard fought and resisted in every generation by the forces of radical shortsightedness and selfishness.

We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb.

It uses beam stiffness and resisting force in the basic system to convert the global coordinate system.

In September 1863, 37 cases of conspiracy and resisting the enrollment in Putnam County were heard in the United States District Court in Indianapolis.

They have evoked scathing attacks by constitutional experts and have been strongly resisted in the Senate, at least so far.

Rohmer's world is one of avoidance; he depicts erotic tensions so wild that they have to be kept tightly controlled by hard and glossy social façades, and that have to be resisted in the pursuit of true love.

To avoid simply subsidising poverty and propping up the status quo, we need to embrace the referendum result and resist wallowing in the politics of blame and recrimination, which will only further polarise already disenfranchised sections of our society further.

But there was still uncertainty over whether elements in Jonathan's Peoples Democratic party (PDP) would relinquish power after 16 years or resist in the courts and on the streets.