Sentence examples for resist someone from inspiring English sources

Beginning with my mother, I have always found it hard to resist someone else's certainty.

How can you resist someone who makes these kinds of comparisons?

He dips his head and gives me the look that says, how can you resist someone as quiveringly self-aware, as attuned to the mechanisms of his own irresistibility, as I, Russell Brand, am?

One imagines that Norris Church stayed with Norman Mailer partly for the same reasons that Hillary Rodham stayed with her own ill-tempered, narcissistic, brilliant and seductive mate: what woman who dreamed big could resist someone who promised so colorful a life?

It's easy to resist someone when you don't know who they really are and how they really feel.

Are conservatives that void of intellect and moral fortitude that they couldn't find a way to fend off unfair charges of racism which I spent years defending the GOP against while retaining the ability to resist someone as obviously bigoted as Trump?

Van de Velde could not resist when someone asked what he thought about his chances.

Similar pressure might be equally difficult to resist for someone in a substance abuse or juvenile delinquency program.

I know nothing about him, but how can I resist including someone named "Sparky"?

The thought of free two-day shipping was too good to resist for someone who was devouring books at an alarming rate for a senior thesis.

That makes offers nearing seven figures from private firms hard to resist for someone in a costly city like New York or Washington.