One by one, people who had not merely resisted him before but called him by his proper name — who, until a month ago, were determined to oppose a man they rightly described as a con artist and a pathological liar — are suddenly getting on board.
If both the experiment described here and the C. gigas study had been extended by several months, we would predict significant mortalities, as the animals are merely resisting the higher temperatures and are exhibiting time limited thermal tolerance.
"A total of 674 people signed the petition, not merely to resist the government's move, but to press for a de jure 'open' Woodstock," wrote Jayne Garside in her 1993 doctoral thesis Gentrification in South Africa: the case of Woodstock, Cape Town.
But resisting the assimilation allows us to learn important logical distinctions merely by learning our language.
Rawls exemplifies this view but also resists a merely prescriptive form of stability; that is, he does not want a society to be stable based on what should render it stable.
Not only did some resist Mr. Leventhal's introduction of nontraditional programming, but some of the constituent groups also resented that Lincoln Center played an expanding role as a producer rather than remaining merely a landlord.
It wasn't merely that they tended to resist regulation.
The online world has merely exposed the feebleness of human attention, which is so weak that even the most minor temptations are all but impossible to resist.
The authors resist speculation, but a great artist does not merely reproduce an object in a work of art, he or she evokes meaning through symbolism.
