Sentence examples for is resisting for from inspiring English sources

Tomic is clearly a less fragile character, one who is resisting for now, calls from Australian tennis officials to hire a former champion as an adviser or coach in imitation of Andy Murray's decision to hire Ivan Lendl last year.

This is why Palestinians have been resisting for more than seven decades: They are fighting to remain on their lands with dignity.

School officials are resisting for the same reason they are fighting charter schools: their districts will lose money if students leave.

Later in the day, the government said it would sell a 51percentt stake in the national airline, Turkish Airlines, a move that it had been resisting for months.

Ms. Jawin disputes the claim and has hired a lawyer to fight her removal, which she has been resisting for four months.

The RFL has been resisting for years because they fear, with good reason on recent evidence, that such an appointment would encourage rebels such as Lenagan towards their ultimate goal of achieving independence.

The footnote spelled out demands that the Russians had been resisting for weeks: NATO command and control of the peacekeeping force with control of the operation in the hands of the North Atlantic Council, the chief decision-making body of the alliance.

Climate change is, in many ways, a manifestation of multiple systemic problems and injustices that people have been resisting for a long time.

But such thinking should be resisted for other reasons.

The temptation to shackle the invisible hand might be powerful, but was to be resisted, for the good of all.

But he says the forces that toppled Mubarak, and propelled him to fame, cannot be resisted for long.