Sentence examples for resist governing from inspiring English sources

Governments cannot resist governing.

The TV networks had lodged a complaint with Uefa via their joint sporting rights agency, SportA, he said, calling on the governing body to resist similar "interventions" in future.

Jenkens & Gilchrist has resisted those summonses, citing rules governing confidentiality of dealings between lawyers and clients.

Iraq's governing parties still resist sharing power.

On a strict coherentist conception of autonomy, autonomous agents can be moved by desires they are helpless to resist: though an addict fails to govern herself if she would rather resist her irresistible urge to take drugs, she is an autonomous agent if she has no objection to her addiction and its motivational effects.

Many users within the Wikipedia community have noted the huge potential benefit of integrating a fully semantically aware infrastructure, but previous proposals have involved technical changes that the governing body of Wikipedia has resisted (8).

Mr. Biti, a lawyer and former student leader, resisted the decision to govern with Mr. Mugabe and has criticized Mr. Mugabe's policies and the repression of his critics even as Mr. Biti himself was facing treason charges punishable by death.

The Ulster Volunteer Force was formed to resist plans to make Ireland self-governing, but many members went on to fight in the First World War.

Estonia were 100 kilometres away, resisting an order from Fifa, international football's governing body, to be at their ground by 3pm.

World governing body Fifa has so far resisted calls for technology but now appears ready to change its attitude.

For years, as the number of people moving legally or illegally across national borders has grown, governments have resisted United Nations efforts to collect reliable statistics and coordinate procedures governing immigration.