The Liverpool manager was confident of a reunion with the World Cup winner until being unable to offer European football, and Borussia Mönchengladbach resisted interest in Mahmoud Dahoud having sold another midfielder, Granit Xhaka, to Arsenal.
Roberto Mancini offered the former Bayern Munich player a chance after he resisted interest from West Bromwich Albion but he was not included in City's Champions League squad and started only two games, both in the Carling Cup, in his four appearances.
He cannot resist her interest in finding out who he is, even as he makes her stand for something other than herself.
The European Central Bank, which sets monetary policy for all 12 countries that have adopted the euro, continues to resist reducing interest rates.
Her role will be to resist further interest rate cuts or any other attempts by the ECB to make credit cheaper.
(Wednesday) Despite the weak outlook, the European Central Bank is expected to resist cutting interest rates during its meeting, keeping them at 2percentt.
Political and economic interests that are vested in the status quo will resist; new interests could create factions.
But like other social movements, its experience fits a historical pattern of political policing being deployed against sectors of society that most resist the interests of the market.
It has been many years since New York State had a governor with the vision, judgment and authority that it needs now to turn Albany's budget from obesity, to resist powerful interests, to plot a course out of an ethical netherworld in which state the government has become a national embarrassment.
Moreover it was the institution most likely to be able to resist vested interests such as those found in the manufacturing sector, meaning that it was the national government that should pass regulations on terms and conditions at work say, or on the sale and control of land.
