Sentence examples for layer of resistance from inspiring English sources

It does take the slightest layer of resistance off the exposed skin on backs, arms and legs, and it also scrapes some of the dead skin off, making it more sensitive in the water," Shapton explained.

"There's an extra layer of resistance, or justification, when you are dealing with an institution that has a religious basis for being opposed to same-sex marriage," she said.

To examine its thermal behaviour in unsteady conditions using finite difference methods, a thin layer of resistance rL and capacity cL is replaced by a T section of lumped values rL/2, cL, rL/2 – 3 elements and a thicker layer might be divided into say three equal slices so as to be represented by the sequence (rL/6, cL/3, rL/3, cL/3, rL/3, cL/3, rL/6), 7 elements in all.

However, some pathogens are able to suppress the first layer of resistance by the secretion of effector proteins to target PRRs or key components in the PTI signaling pathway.

Usually, once I break through that initial layer of resistance I can keep going or stop and feel good that I moved a project forward".

"It is an act of desperation which will only hurt their shareholders by delaying the inevitable". Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Inc. analysts agreed, saying in a report Wednesday that AT&T faces "an uphill battle". Genachowski's hearing proposal was "another blow" to the merger that added a "new layer of resistance" that could "prove insurmountable," the report said.

"How many layers of resistance toward citizens, how many layers of insensitivity have built up?" Mr. Calderón asked during a speech he presented to the many bureaucrats who attended the awards ceremony.

This "deep story" lies below layers of resistance to the government — including an aversion to being told what to do by the "finger-wagging, moralizing North," as well as an assumption that the federal government is no better than the state government, which in heavily polluted Louisiana "does the moral dirty work of the oil industry," Hochschild said.

Trying to be consistent, much less creative, amidst all these emotional layers of resistance was impossible.

From all this we learned about the difference between token symbolic progress and real progress, the layers of resistance to ending racial discrimination, and how even the most dramatic single act of desegregation cannot without more remedy undo decades of institutionalized racial exclusion.

The chosen inoculation procedure circumvents some layers of resistance operating in a natural infection process, but it is proven to be highly reproducible and allows the quantitative evaluation of resistance and susceptibility.