Sentence examples for resist not only from inspiring English sources

They set out to confound and resist not only the excesses of bourgeois capitalism but also the tyranny of modernism's urban agenda.

And should evacuations be mandatory, some will resist, not only because they don't take the risk seriously enough, but also because they fear that their property might be looted.

There is a need for coatings to resist not only wear but also chemical attack and excessive heat.

These construction elements usually need to resist not only the high internal pressures and temperatures, but also the influence of aggressive media.

To ensure the long-term performance of DMSs, it is critical to ensure that the truss structures that hold them can resist not only extreme loading events, but also fatigue induced by service loads.

In elastomeric bearing components, the sole plates are important so as to resist not only compression but also flexural stresses due to bending of bridge girders and local stress concentration near the load-bearing diaphragm.

Many of the elements that it wants will be firmly resisted not only by the British but also by others, such as the Germans and the Poles.

In eastern India, too, tribal people have moved into extremist organizations, like the Maoists, but there they are resisting not only the state but the corporate presence too.

In the view of American diplomats and senior military officers, he was seen as a Mubarak confidant who had consistently resisted not only changes to the Egyptian military's mission, but also social reforms in the country.

And the right to be forgotten is being strenuously resisted not only by Google and Facebook but also by American civil libertarians who fear that the ability to remove truthful but embarrassing information from the Internet would pose a grave threat to free speech.

I resisted not only my body but my whole being.