Sentence examples for previous resistance from inspiring English sources

Despite previous resistance to the licence fee, they thought the price of one Subway sandwich per week was well worth all they had missed.

One official was quoted as saying that US national security adviser Susan Rice was also prepared to reconsider her previous resistance to providing such assistance.

Aware of previous resistance, Moscovici has in recent weeks taken extensive soundings from EU members, prompting him to water down key elements of the CCCTB in an effort to make it more palatable.

Many will no doubt see the president's agreement to permit Condoleezza Rice to testify under oath before the 9/11 commission as evidence that his previous resistance was grounded only in political expediency (front page, March 31).

But Iraq says that in light of Washington's previous resistance to raising the ceiling, the new resolution was meant only to deflect some of the criticism that was building over Washington's threats to attack Iraq.

Our qualitative analysis shows the previous resistance to accept any charging system, the lack of confidence on politicians and stresses the importance given to the use of revenues.

Comparisons with previous rust resistance QTL studies revealed that 10 of the 11 previously reported rust resistance QTL in sorghum were also identified in the current study.

The thermal models were further validated through the simulation of previous fire resistance experiments on multicellular slab panels.

The La-doped regions of the scale are more conductive despite being much thicker, which is consistent with previous contact resistance data obtained for this alloy.

The outcome was the logical conclusion of failing to confront the steady rise of Euroscepticism over the previous decades: resistance required the liberal centre to use political capital to stand up to what is now obviously a malign alliance of obsessed constitutional nationalists and far rightwing populists.

According to the previous results, resistance to BB depends on the rice genetic background.