The phrase "resist shift" is correct and can be used in written English
It usually refers to resisting change or a sudden movement. Example: The workers were advised to resist shift in the company's policies, as it could result in major job cuts.
But neither could resist shifting to the heart jack.
State-owned companies and their government patrons, which have benefited from cheap, free-flowing loans from state-owned banks and privileged access to land and natural resources, are likely to resist shifts that would expose them and the banks to stronger competition from the private sector, experts said.
At this point, three bars were loosely connected to the tibial ring and footplate, with care being taken to position the bars in multiple planes to better resist shifting of the fracture once reduced.
In turn, my friends couldn't resist shifting their weight back just a hair, although they insisted they understood there was no chance of worms leaping from my body to theirs.
Many corporations have resisted shifting e-mail, accounting or customer tracking software to the Web, for fear of losing control over vital business functions.
Germany, like America in the 1940s, would resist this shift in focus.
They would resist any shift he thought of making on immigration.
Mourinho, Wenger and the rest know they must resist the shift of power from the club to the individual.
If it is, then it fails in multiple different ways – stories change, or resist, they shift in essential or merely cosmetic ways; some survive the process, others detach themselves entirely.
He seemed to resist this shift at first, and his rendering of the Scriabin pointed up the work's connections (in thematic shape and, to an extent, harmonic turns) to the Chopin more vividly than the ways Scriabin headed off on his own path.
