Sentence examples for he is resistant from inspiring English sources

Although he is resistant to the characterization, Safin has star qualities.

This season, some critics have suggested that Paterno is a man stuck in time, that he is resistant to change, that the game's latest intricacies elude him.

He wants change; at the same time, he is resistant to the little whiffs of political correctness to which he is exposed.

He cheerfully admits that he's "not good at punctuation," and when I ask him why he is resistant to drawing even the most provisional of conclusions, he offers a simple explanation: "I don't know how to elaborate thoughts," he says.

He is resistant to bank nationalisation and, it would seem, to the draconian measures to eliminate insolvent "zombie" banks in the US that Washington urged in vain upon the Japanese during the latter's famous "lost decade" of the 1990s.

At the official opening of the exhibition Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in 1989, members of the Picasso family could be heard asking: "But where is Braque?" He is resistant to the stock assimilations.

"He resisted, and he's resistant," Mr. Brizola continued.

At first, he was resistant.

I asked him why he was resistant.

He's resistant to there being one reading of a work, he adds.

He says that he was resistant to casting Jon Voight, because of his pug-dog mug.