Sentence examples for defied resolution from inspiring English sources

The violence, instead, exposed one of the unsettling realities of a conflict that has defied resolution for decades.

The largely peaceful protesters still camped out in the streets, calling for democracy, remain a vulnerable backdrop to an armed conflict that has defied resolution.

The back-and-forth was a blunt reminder that Mr. Obama remains a polarizing figure as the two parties seek common ground on an emotional issue that has defied resolution for more than two decades.

The Mexi cans believe that, if their ex periment Saturday during the total eclipse of the sun is suc cessful, they may settle a de bate in current physics that has defied resolution.

While the president warned of Soviet-inspired trouble brewing in Southeast Asia, at the Interior Department, Secretary Stewart L. Udall took on an issue in the District that for years had defied resolution -- integrating the Washington Redskins.

Mr. Castañeda, who just a few weeks ago declared that Mexico would agree only to a comprehensive agreement on immigration -- "the whole enchilada or nothing" -- said today that it was very ambitious to anticipate that the two countries could settle in four to six years issues that had defied resolution for more than a century.

Melodic lines snaked quickly through oblique intervals, defying resolution.

He argues, plausibly, that the standoff defies resolution because Kim Jong Il has "institutionalized brinksmanship".

A strong feature in the Malevich-based heritage of cerebral compositions is the structuring of movement that retains its tension and defies resolution.

You emerge from it restive and itchy, as though a movie screen could give you sunburn, and the story defies resolution.

"The Associate" is true to form: it grabs the reader quickly, becomes impossible to put down, stays that way through most of its story, and then escalates into plotting so crazily far-fetched that it defies resolution.