Sentence examples for outright resistance from inspiring English sources

Outright resistance is often personal.

His calls for the restoration of the Games, therefore, were often met with indifference or outright resistance.

This article argues that everyday practices can matter as much as organized social movements or outright resistance in environmental governance outcomes.

Before he could accomplish that goal, he was forced to shift his policy from single-minded anti-Communism to outright resistance to Japanese aggression.

Administration officials said the Pentagon has never formally opposed the transfers, an act of outright resistance to a high-profile presidential commitment that risks reprisal.

I think that the Obama administration has thus far showed prudent caution, and outright resistance to getting overly drawn into the Syrian crisis.

In other words, whether met with hope, wariness, or outright fear and resistance, the underlying presumption is the same: this Donziger might actually shake things up.

For years, Kleiman's resistance to outright legalization was based, in part, on a fear that commercialization of the drug could triple its use.

Thankfully, these calls have largely been met with resistance and outright condemnation.

The Rolling Jubilee needs to roll into larger forms of resistance and outright non-cooperation with Walls Street's unjust debts".

The Boston "busing crisis," as it's referred to here, began when the Boston Public Schools were desegregated under federal court order, after years of resistance and outright hostility towards the claims of black parents by the democratically-elected school committee.