Sentence examples for attempt to resist from inspiring English sources

His attempt to resist eating a sausage in the first act is a masterclass in facial expressions.

An official said inmates in two cellblocks rose up in an attempt to resist a security sweep.

At lunch, he proffered one theory — that his stories were an attempt to resist "the identification of materialism with nihilism".

During the war, although nominally supreme commander, William did not attempt to resist his generals when they kept its conduct in their own hands.

For instance, about two centuries ago, the formerly separate Cherokee chiefdoms gradually formed a unified Cherokee government in a desperate attempt to resist pressure from whites.

Darius made no attempt to resist his crossing of the Euphrates and Tigris but offered battle at Gaugamela, east of modern Mosul.

A tolerant predator always harbors the parasite population whereas the resistant one attempts to resist or eliminate the parasite.

Our attempts to resist were useless.

She attempts to resist her attackers but appears to be either drunk or drugged.

The indigenous peoples of the Great Basin attempted to resist colonial encroachment.

Tasmanian attempts to resist were met with the superior weaponry and force of the Europeans.