Sentence examples for power of resisting from inspiring English sources

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Further, Newton's list of the qualities of body includes not only extension, hardness, impenetrability, and mobility, but also the vis inertiae the inherent force or power of resisting (Principia, Definition 3), which some commentators take Newton to identify with mass.[28] Locke's concept, however, emphasizes extension, mobility, and solidity, without mentioning mass.

In effect, the 'transaction' diminishes the woman's freedom and power of resisting abuse by the husband.

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Leo Tolstoy, after a decade studying the issue (1877 1887), held that the only power capable of resisting the evil associated with materialism and the drive for social power of religious institutions, was the capacity of humans to reach an individual spiritual truth through reason and conscience.

Here were laid the foundations of that economic organization and utilization of resources that was to be the secret of Germany's power to resist the pressure of the British blockade.

There is something that gay liberation practiced at the very beginning, which was so important, which is the power and potency of resisting normative regulations.

On the second day, with his torturers threatening to harm his wife and two young daughters (his wife, frantic about his disappearance, was meanwhile receiving phone threats, warnings to stay silent), Castellanos came to the end of his power to resist.

It requires a good deal of will power to resist hyperbole in considering the advances that have been achieved in fluorescence microscopy in the last 25 years.

It is power which in the final instance is necessary for the enforcement of conflicting views of what I ought to do; I can only choose not to obey if I possess the power to resist the demands of the state or if I am willing to accept the consequences of the state's superiority of coercive force.

One more similarity (although Everton fans may dispute this point), and which Moyes will be quickly forced to accept, is that Real Sociedad are the quintessential 'selling club', recently losing star players Antoine Griezmann (to Atletico Madrid), Claudio Bravo (Barcelona) and Asier Illarramendi (Real Madrid) because they simply did not have the financial power to resist the calls of big boys.

Continuing resistance towards undertaking a technical procedure depended on having the power to resist and the existence of an acceptable alternative.

The Greek column, which is narrower at its summit than at its base, is diminished by a curve beginning slightly below the midpoint, giving it an effect of an almost muscular power to resist loads.

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