Sentence examples for resist approving from inspiring English sources

However, some EU countries have continued to resist approving new GM crop varieties.

Some members of the United Nations would probably resist approving the death penalty as a possible punishment if it set up a terrorism tribunal.

Congressional Republicans had already resisted approving the initial package of $20 billion.

Legislators had long resisted approving the plan, but the governor had insisted on it as it became increasingly uncertain that Congress would increase the financing.

When Mr. Cohen's $616 million settlement was first presented to Judge Victor Marrero of Federal District Court in Manhattan, he resisted approving it, saying aloud what so many people were thinking at the time, "There is something counterintuitive and incongruous about settling for $600 million if it truly did nothing wrong".

President Barack Obama has requested $3.7 billion to fund efforts to care for the unaccompanied minors and deter others from coming, but Republicans have resisted approving the request without conditions.

In Britain, the Guardian struggled mightily with its conscience but could not resist an approving editorial.

This is done with the conversation analytic method (CA) according to which altercasting is a mutual construction performed turn by turn and shaped by the reactions of the interlocutor who can approve, resist, or modify the identity in question.

Mr. Clinton will need to resist any impulse to approve the missile system as a political tactic to protect Vice President Al Gore from charges that the administration has left the country defenseless against missile attacks from terrorist states.

Kari Matalone, a spokeswoman for Monsanto, said the corn — which is engineered to resist pests — had been approved for cultivation in Europe more than a decade ago and that no ill effects had been detected since then.

Kari Matalone, a spokeswoman for Monsanto, said that the corn, which is engineered to resist pests, had been approved for cultivation in Europe more than a decade ago and that no ill-effects had been detected since then.