Sentence examples for effort to resist from inspiring English sources

It takes an active effort to resist the impulse to silence the jerks who have wounded you.

The guidelines give museums new ethical leverage in their effort to resist undue pressure from lenders or corporate underwriters.

More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organising principle of world civilisation".

Jackson described his futile effort to resist Roosevelt's politically inspired design to move the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization from the Labor Department to the Justice Department.

Democrats have characterized their actions as an effort to resist what they say is a bid by the administration to pack the courts with right-wing ideologues.

That is, if there were a continuing boycott or other organized effort to resist a tourist economy, you should honor its strictures.

Finally, Muḥammad ʿAlī had to devote much of his effort to resisting attempts by his Ottoman overlord to remove him from office.

We might not share the Thai saluters' circumstance, but we can apply the lessons from their resistance to the Thai military to our own efforts to resist oppressive systems in the West.

In his fiction, resourceful young women record their efforts to resist the advances of scheming libertines.

Dalí's exasperated efforts to resist Gardner's agenda is one of the story's more amusing subplots.

Octavian's efforts to resist at sea the son of the republican general Gnaeus Pompey, Sextus Pompeius, had not met with success.