ALSO, for several years, Gov. George E. Pataki had resisted legislative attempts to bring back vision tests.
Starting in 1964, in conjunction with Democratic president LyndonJohnson's "New Society," the government threatened to withhold federal funding for health, education, and other state and local programmes from jurisdictions that resisted legislative and judicial desegregation orders.
Republicans have generally resisted legislative efforts on gun control, with some even arguing there was no point in government making the attempt.
Republicans, in particular, have resisted all legislative efforts to make those donations public.
At the same time, negotiations over a broader budget deal appeared to have broken down anew, with Gov. David A. Paterson resisting a legislative proposal to cancel some of his proposed school cuts in exchange for accepting an administration proposal to eliminate a pool of unrestricted aid to New York City.
From 1849 to 1865 he came to personify the opposition of the landsmen and many of the middle classes to the enfranchisement of trade unionists and to resist fiscal and legislative assaults on landed property, opining (with regard to Ireland) that "tenant right was landlord's wrong".
If Albany lawmakers continue to resist moving the state legislative primaries, they will be forcing New York to hold three primaries.
It has lobbyists in Washington and elsewhere, and has had success resisting recent N.R.A. legislative initiatives.
"After the last 72 hours, they expect Democrats to vote against every single nominee and resist and obstruct every single one of his legislative initiatives," said Murshed Zaheed, vice president and political director of CREDO Action.
But she notes on funding "it would be politically difficult for any government to resist the views of both houses expressed in the legislative form".
