Sentence examples for resist of from inspiring English sources

Enslavement was immoral, said the Requerimiento - unless the locals resist, of course: ""We emphasise that any deaths that result from this (resistance) are your fault... .. (If that sounds bad to you, try rereading the US justification for civilian drone killings in Pakistan).

The goal was to break the will to resist of detainees believed to be withholding information.

They are hard to resist, of course; anyone who's been there knows the thrill of witnessing the triumph of a longing for freedom over long-held fear.

One must always resist, of course, the temptation to identify the "I" in a poem or a story with the author of that poem or story.

But I couldn't resist, of course.

We have some indication from history, particularly that of Nazi Germany, that such pitiless tactics are effective at breaking the will to resist of even very principled people.

That impulse has to be resisted, of course; the candidates need our attention.

Farther north forts of old regime resist onslaughts of apts.

Although to greater or lesser degrees I resisted all of the evening's four works, I could resist few of the dancers.

"We cannot resist all of it".

I resist most of these designations.