Sentence examples for chance of resisting from inspiring English sources

If we have any chance of resisting this overhaul of the welfare state, we must start seeing 'benefits' as rights, rather than rewards.

Those forces were almost insignificant when compared with the size of the invading Allied armies, and they would have had a slim chance of resisting an attack if the Allied command had developed an advance more rapidly than it did.

Of the six government pilots, only Warwickshire's -where there is a biodiversity impacts assessment system in place- would seem to stand a chance of resisting this drive to make biodiversity into assets and to create markets to fully financialise them.

In July 1940, the pair moved to Portugal where the duke made indiscreet remarks that Britain stood little chance of resisting a German invasion and may as well try to settle for peace with the Germans.

Yet the Uralkali affair stands out for illustrating with rare clarity the willingness of the authorities to use whatever means necessary to obtain these assets, including subjecting companies to questionable investigations that they have little chance of resisting, financial analysts here say.

Even nodes on networks with greater diversity had the same chance of resisting novel attacks.

He intended 22.Rf6! but thought that after 22...Kg7 23.Rd1?! Rf8! 24.Rxd4 Rxf6 black has some chances of resisting.

Two also face charges of resisting arrest.

For months, Santorum became the favored face of the most conservative faction of the party, the one person who gave them a viable chance at resisting Romney.

Mark is so selfish he tried to enhance his presidential chances by resisting South Carolina's share of President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package, callously giving the back of his hand to the suffering state's most vulnerable — the jobless and poor and black students.

The purpose of the SERE program is to provide U.S. troops who might be captured a taste of the treatment they might face so that they might have a better chance of surviving captivity and resisting abusive and coercive interrogations.