Sentence examples for off the resistance from inspiring English sources

On Thursday, a group of prominent New York business leaders, hoping to stave off the resistance to the Common Core standards, will release a letter urging New York policy makers to move forward with the new standards.

He shook off the resistance and naysayers, refused to accept no, and made it work.

Sudan created this opportunity in order to finish off the resistance in Darfur, Blue Nile, and Nuba Mountains, while destabilizing South Sudan.

The cut-off value of the resistance factor used to define the classes "resistant to BVM" and "susceptible to BVM" was set according to Heider et al. [ 10].

During its 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon, Israel appeared to hope that if it lopped off the head of the resistance, the tail would eventually wither.

Under orders to finish off the last resistance without risking any of his own men, he fired nine rockets into the basement in the afternoon.

This freekick is a prime opportunity to Chelsea to kill off the underdogs' resistance... 80 min: Mata daba a woeful freekick into the wall.

The debate over the flag touched off the normal resistance to American domination of the Olympic movement along with concern over the United States' role in global warming and the growing worldwide gap between rich and poor.

"Pakistan, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden had a joint program to finish off the Afghan resistance, and they have failed," said Mr. Massoud, portraying the summer of fighting in the best light.

A game that was billed as a fairytale farewell for the retiring Landon Donovan delivered that storyline, after a fashion, though it took a decisive goal by his fellow designated player Robbie Keane in extra time to see off the stubborn resistance of a valiant New England.

When the phase FET is turned off, the channel resistance becomes high, so that the externally applied voltage to the TS is too low to turn it on.