Sentence examples for could be resisted from inspiring English sources

Volcker says that the temptation to launch another bailout could be resisted.

In the political and cultural climate created by such a change, I cannot see how Romanian, Polish, Czechoslovak and Hungarian claims for independence could be resisted".

I relished the slow process of making an image, all the variables involved, the ways it could be resisted or manipulated.

He was Putin; he was Erdoğan; he was Sylvia Plath's vampiric daddy who could be resisted only furtively, if at all.

When another colleague suggested that no one knew the precise moment when aging scholars had peaked, Nussbaum cited Cato, who wrote that the process of aging could be resisted through vigorous physical and mental activity.

The justices did, however, rule in favour of the government in overseas detention cases brought by a Pakistani, Yunus Ramatullah, and an Afghan, Serdar Mohammed, declaring that claims based on Iraqi or Afghan law could be resisted due to the principle of "crown act of state".

In fact the tangled pile of bed coils, clothes and toys smashed against the inland end of the room told all -- of a deadly force that could not be resisted and could barely be escaped.

The remainder of the game featured a white juggernaut that simply could not be resisted.

A special veal dish that was carved at tableside, infusing the room with wildly seductive aromas, could not be resisted.

But by the early spring of 2014 it was becoming clear that the disease could not be resisted much longer.

(Elsewhere in the letter, its says that a leader who made it impossible for believers to pray could also be resisted legitimately).