The chancellor, resisted months of lobbying by business groups yesterday when he said he would press ahead with a simplification of the capital gains tax regime.
He limited the U.S. role in the campaign that helped oust Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and has resisted months of pressure for more muscular support for rebels fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
And on the other side, how can city governments work with companies that only selectively share data on their impact when it's politically convenient, and which resist for months and years to pay basic taxes which sustain the public infrastructure that makes their businesses possible?
Democrats won a formal budget negotiation that Republicans had resisted for months, giving them a chance to relieve some of the sequester cuts.
Later in the day, the government said it would sell a 51percentt stake in the national airline, Turkish Airlines, a move that it had been resisting for months.
Having resisted for months the idea of a bailout, the Portuguese authorities are now counting on at least some of the rescue money to be delivered by June -- before the election and ahead of tough debt repayment obligations that month.
This challenge is one reason that leading members of the Bharatiya Janata Party have resisted for months naming Mr. Modi as its official candidate for prime minister, and one top leader continued that resistance Friday.
Mr. Jerome, who was arrested on a felony charge after trying to check his pistol with security guards, had resisted for months the offer he eventually accepted in a standoff with the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
After resisting for months, the Malaysian government has agreed to allow the F.B.I. to question a man who Malaysian and American authorities say was the host for a meeting in January 2000 of plotters for Al Qaeda.
Steroids, torture, lies from the White House, civil war in Iraq, even recession: that's just a partial glossary of the bad-news vocabulary that some of the country, sometimes in tandem with a passive news media, resisted for months on end before bowing to the obvious or the inevitable.
