Sentence examples for been resisting for from inspiring English sources

This is why Palestinians have been resisting for more than seven decades: They are fighting to remain on their lands with dignity.

Ms. Jawin disputes the claim and has hired a lawyer to fight her removal, which she has been resisting for four months.

Later in the day, the government said it would sell a 51percentt stake in the national airline, Turkish Airlines, a move that it had been resisting for months.

The RFL has been resisting for years because they fear, with good reason on recent evidence, that such an appointment would encourage rebels such as Lenagan towards their ultimate goal of achieving independence.

The footnote spelled out demands that the Russians had been resisting for weeks: NATO command and control of the peacekeeping force with control of the operation in the hands of the North Atlantic Council, the chief decision-making body of the alliance.

This prompted World Savings to attract more borrowers by taking a step that some regulators were starting to frown upon, and which the company had been resisting for years: it allowed borrowers to make monthly payments based on an annual interest rate of just 1.5percentt.

Efforts to deregulate and kick-start the economy have been resisted for years by corporate interest, from taxi-drivers to property lawyers.

At the same time, the attendant publicity and concern afford a rare opportunity for meaningful and lasting reform -- reform that has been resisted for far too long.

Discussing the issue of NHS reform on BBC Radio Wales, Dame June Clark, emeritus professor of community nursing, said change had generally been resisted for "years and years and years".

It is a bitter pill to swallow, one I suspect has been resisted for some time.

School officials are resisting for the same reason they are fighting charter schools: their districts will lose money if students leave.