Sentence examples for better resisted from inspiring English sources

No firm better resisted the temptations than Goldman, which, from its founding in 1869 through recent decades, epitomized, with only rare slip-ups, the best of American finance.

Perhaps like the French after World War II, there is a popular desire to assume that everyone was really part of the resistance and that the same pressures put on East Germans, Czechs and Hungarians to collaborate with Moscow and the Communist secret police were better resisted here.

Heather Mattila, a postdoctoral fellow in ecology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was inspired to undertake the research after her adviser, Thomas Seeley, discovered that genetically diverse hives better resisted a common bacterial disease.

For instance, given the presumably heightened need of support from children after the loss of a spouse, the psychological damage caused by widowhood may be better resisted if older parents hold a relatively strong belief in children's filial responsibilities compared to parents who have less faith in such filial duties.

Over time, the bacteria mutated to better resist antibiotics and vaccines.

Radial, or tainter, gates are similar in principle but are curved in vertical section to better resist water pressure.

To better resist the sea's pressure, the wall of the new personnel sphere is to be nearly three inches thick, up from Alvin's two inches.

With $7.5 million from the foundation, he wants to genetically modify the tuber to store nitrogen as protein rather than as cyanogens, to produce more vitamin A and E and iron and zinc, and to better resist viral attacks.

When Washington was warned in 2006 that the cars involved in Monday's crash should be replaced or at least strengthened to better resist crashes, the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority's hands were tied.

Peer support groups, outreach workers and a crisis management team from a sex worker's collective work to guide them about how to better resist violence from their partners.

Plant genetic engineers are working to improve specific economically important plant varieties by increasing their photosynthetic efficiency, improving their nutritional quality, and transferring to them such favourable properties as the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, as do legumes, and to better resist diseases and tolerate herbicides and natural environmental stress.