[We were gonna put the jackoff motion here but then we had a long, productive discussion about using gendered language like that and decided against it, in our small attempt at resisting the heteronormative language that's become pervasive online].
Early attempts at gritting were resisted, as the salt used encouraged rusting, causing damage to the metal structures of bridges and the shoes of pedestrians.
His attempts at research was resisted by the British and American governments; he was denied access to British war records and had to undertake considerable work to obtain US records via Freedom of Information requests.
Guardian Australia spoke to several insiders who declined to be named but who echoed Brown's sentiment that the NSW Greens were uncooperative and ran their own agenda as a protest party and continued to resist attempts at federalisation.
Both attempts were resisted.
Our attempts to resist were useless.
Attempts to resist are met by ever more extreme methods, such as the threatened lawsuit at the Churchill Hospital.
Its scale has created a powerful lobby that has serially resisted attempts at reform.
And passenger journeys are expected to more than double to about 500m a year by 2030.The industry has resisted attempts at regulation in the past.
Industrialized agriculture fiercely resists attempts at legislation, ignores or tries to weaken laws that exist, and pays lobbyists to ensure the government will take no action.
