The phrase 'attract resistance' is grammatically correct and can be used in written English. It is typically used as a metaphor to describe something that evokes a negative reaction from others. For example, "His attempts to increase his power have only attracted resistance from those around him."
The current proposals for new structures and governance arrangements will inevitably be unsettling to some and will attract resistance.
However, Francis's environmental radicalism is likely to attract resistance from Vatican conservatives and in rightwing church circles, particularly in the US – where Catholic climate sceptics also include John Boehner, Republican leader of the House of Representatives and Rick Santorum, the former Republican presidential candidate.
Mr. Summers, who was also the president of Harvard, has attracted resistance for a variety of reasons, among them his comments about the aptitude of women in math and science.
Franklin Roosevelt left it out of Social Security because he was afraid it would be too complicated and attract fierce resistance.
But after 16 years in coalition with the Christian Democrats under Mr Kohl, they had little to show for their reforming zeal, and their policies would attract fierce resistance from the unions.Something bold is needed, however, for Germany's problems go very deep.
Babylon's bureau has attracted more resistance than the others around the state, and that may be because it involves more money.
However, plans to liberalise the protected European sugar market attracted strong resistance from several EU member states and the multinational sugar industry.
The lack of a codified constitution is a double-edged sword: while change can often be slow in parliament -- House of Lords reform came about a century late -- as law-makers wrestle over the lack of clarity governing the rules, adept political players can move swiftly and without attracting much resistance, as Tony Blair did in reforming Prime Ministers Question Time.
We expect that these associations and drug resistance predictions will attract the experimental research community to verify their role in drug resistance mechanisms.
In "Moolaadé," set in a village in Burkina Faso — about one woman's resistance to the long-standing practice of female genital mutilation and the uproar in the village as that resistance attracts followers — the context is the intersection of local tradition and Islam, and the effect on religious practice and cultural heritage when faced with technological modernity.
The version being offered by Senate Democrats has attracted some Republican resistance because it would give tribal authorities the ability to prosecute non-American Indians in cases of domestic violence on reservations.
