Even in the case of coercion, the person being coerced retains the power to resist, even if only mentally.
20 The conservative government of 1991 1995 implemented considerable spending cuts that were not allocated evenly across all public spending but were more heavily concentrated on services for people with the least power to resist them: the non-working population.
Those in power have to resist the temptation to crack down on dissidents.
In 1986, after President Museveni took power in Uganda, the rebel factions that have mobilized to resist this government can be characterized by transitions of increased terror, with Joseph Kony being the craft perpetrator of some of the greatest human rights violations the world has ever seen.
In June he made a speech in Syria calling on Arabs to "resist" Ariel Sharon's government.
To that end, their proxies have played a big part in the interim government in Baghdad, while trying to resist encroachment by the central government on Kurdish powers in the north.
Both sets of groups had different but unequal sorts of power the former had the power of law, policy, and states backed by military and police power, the latter the power of presence in uplands distant from the seats of government and the related ability in some cases to resist and contest the claims of the national states and international conservationists.
Mr Lagardère would be wise to resist attempts by the government to extract more power from their shareholder pact.
In the U.S., the National Taxpayers Union asked taxpayers to resist such aid, from whatever government.
It said: "The variation in definitions of subsidy allows the government to resist acknowledging subsidy in many areas". Yet the dismantling of Britain's nuclear power stations cost the public £2.3bn in 2012-13 alone.
