Sentence examples for resist splitting from inspiring English sources

Stubbornly to resist splitting infinitives can sound awkward or, worse, ambiguous: "He offered personally to guarantee the loan that the Clintons needed to buy their house" makes it unclear whether the offer, or the guarantee, was personal.

1987-92: When David Steel proposed merger, Owen resisted, splitting his second political party.

Another No. 4 hairpin in the vertical plane was provided to resist the splitting force from the other anchor in shear.

These latter may act as a "tie", holding the circumferential fibers together and, thereby, resisting longitudinal splitting of the menisci (Bullough et al., 1970; Merkel, 1980; Beaupre et al., 1986; Ghosh & Taylor, 1987).

Payments can be adjusted if the father spends as much as 100 nights with his child so many mothers resist giving 50-50 splits and are angered by the request.

TODAY -- Three New Jersey high school girls resist the pressure to split into separate racial groups.

JUNE 25 -- Three New Jersey high school girls resist the pressure to split into separate racial groups.

I manage to resist for only a split-second longer before I tap out.

Korteweg stress seems to act against the broadening of the fingertip that resists the splitting of an isolated finger.

We design a secure multicast stream signature scheme which can resist adaptive chosen message attack through splitting a multicast stream into a sequence of blocks.

In consequence, the loss of nectin-1 and the reduction in desmosomes in the maturation zone of the incisors of Pvrl1−/− mice destroy the capacity to resist such forces and lead to splitting.