Sentence examples for resist measures from inspiring English sources

And, two, voters, and therefore politicians, are likely to resist measures that increase energy prices.

The food and beverage industries resist measures that impose healthier requirements on them while others simply rely on "nanny state" rhetoric.

The Storefront states that the drawings seek to "find measures, resist measurement, and measure the immeasurable by presenting from the real to the fictional and from the functional to the symbolic".

Business groups have resisted measures that would revoke the licenses of employers of illegal immigrants.

A few governments are resisting measures that would ensure that country reviews are fair, public and credible.

Other documents highlight how it pushed for changes to the contract or resisted measures and faced a backlash from the department.

But the organization — which has long resisted measures to limit gun ownership — is under new pressure following the mass shootings of children and teachers in Newtown, Conn., last month.

The music industry has been urging Internet service providers to take stronger action against piracy, though they have generally resisted measures like those agreed to by Eircom.

Several states are resisting measures to ensure access for non-English speakers, and some have closed unemployment offices or adopted technology that creates barriers and bottlenecks instead of better access to career services.

But Russia has long resisted measures that would strain its ties with Tehran -- a point underscored last week when, during a visit to Moscow by Mrs. Clinton, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin said that the Bushehr's first reactor would begin operating this summer.

But he resisted measures that might permanently damage the balanced relations among king, House of Lords, and the Commons and opposed efforts to dictate the king's choice of ministers.