Sentence examples for resist for a while from inspiring English sources

The universities allowed the contractors to resist for a while, because the industry without the union is one of cutthroat lowball bidding down to minimum wage".

He'd resist for a while, then throw on some more wood before marching upstairs to change into his bathing suit, which he'd wear for the rest of the evening.

"Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states can resist for a while," said Simon Wardell, energy expert at Global Insight.

At first I felt fucking awful: technically I was still actually with my girlfriend, and I tried to resist for a while – but this girl was stunning.

I resisted for a while but did use it a few years ago to write a choral piece for the British Symphonia.

But he resists for a while and then is discovered and tortured.

I wouldn't have met Sarah if I hadn't followed my own advice about typecasting, although I admit I resisted for a while.

He tried to resist it for a while.

I resisted it for a while.

We're here to talk about the concluding panel of Christopher Nolan's Batman triptych, which he resisted directing for a while, having failed to answer for himself the pertinent and sobering question: how many movie trilogies have a triumphant part three?

In contrast, statues that were more than two thousand years old stubbornly resist, at least for a while.