"presumably resisting" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when there is a perceived or assumed resistance or opposition to something. Example: The protesters were presumably resisting the newly passed law, as they chanted slogans and held up signs in front of the government building.
As a way of demonstrating that silver, too, will bring cash at Oliver Jewellery, he had his skin painted silver for one — presumably having resisted the temptation to appear as the Lone Arranger's horse.
"Normally their rhetoric would be enhancing the community by getting rid of people who weren't like us, but this in this sense it's about building community to strengthen it to presumably better resist the incursions of all those immigrants and Muslims and all those people they fear".
What right do we have to kill or maim another Iraqi -- child, woman, civilian man or so-called insurgent or rebel, presumably Iraqi men resisting the United States occupation?
But in 2004 the government of Gujarat refused to hand over its lions, presumably because it resisted losing a big draw for tourists.
Japan and southern Europe have clung to older ways, discouraging women from working and frowning on single-parent families; there, fertility has stayed low, presumably because women resist what they see as unwelcome social pressure by having fewer children.
The remaining phosphomonoesters resisting hypobromite oxidation presumably represented lower-order inositol phosphates and constituted an additional 18 21% of the soil organic phosphorus (see Table S2 in the Supporting Information).
But his party is resisting calls for his resignation, presumably fearing that Mr Maehara would have to go too.
Female D. melanogaster suffer direct costs when mated with attractive males [ 82], and may attempt to reduce these costs by "resisting" copulation with attractive (and presumably harmful) males [ 83].
He also resisted attempts – presumably financially generous ones – by his employer at Carlton, Michael Green, to keep him in television.
And Britain's constitutional vagueness means that departments can be split and merged by fiat, rather than needing legislation.So British prime ministers repeatedly give in to a temptation that is presumably felt elsewhere, but resisted.
