Sentence examples for powerful resistance from inspiring English sources

Roosevelt wanted to take the Republicans into the progressive movement, but was met with powerful resistance by those who wanted to preserve the power of the moneyed interests.

But decades of trying to do that for agriculture have run into powerful resistance from farmers.

"If this craziness with Cipro continues, in about two years we're going to have a huge number of new bacteria with powerful resistance to antibiotics," he warns.

She lives alone, apart from a dog called Dog, indicating a powerful resistance on her part to attachment, nominal or otherwise.

The most important is that a truth commission must have plenty of money, a broad mandate and high-level backing because it will face powerful resistance.

But bank unions put up powerful resistance, as does the notion that, left to the market, Indians' access to finance would be even more restricted.

However, if the IMF gained power throughout the 1990s, it began losing that power in the twenty-first century, thanks to powerful popular resistance to the economic policies it embodied and the economic collapse such policies produced.

In another population the evolution of a powerful host resistance gene may cause the local extinction of the parasite population.

Aribert Reimann's "Lear," adapted from Shakespeare's tragedy, was composed -- slowly, and against powerful internal resistance -- at the singer's suggestion.

But no matter how powerful their resistance, New Zealand's sense of destiny – not to mention the exhilarating brilliance of their captain, Brendon McCullum – will probably be even more powerful.

Preliminary moves have been made towards finding a site in Cumbria but there's a powerful local resistance to such schemes, and no long-term solution is expected before 2040.