Sentence examples for resist while from inspiring English sources

IndigoMontoya said Pret's "warm cheesy croissants are quite hard to resist", while Self said "they are both absurdly overpriced and I wouldn't go near either of them".

The natural disasters of the 1890s diminished the ability of the more powerful groups to resist, while weaker peoples at first welcomed the end of Bemba, Ngoni, and Swahili exactions.

Or can we decide its time to resist while we still have some time?

The Yoruba of West Africa use cassava paste as a resist while the Soninke and Wolof people in Senegal uses rice paste.

Although, as suggested by the Obama administration, the new crippling sanctions should be given more time to work and may eventually force Tehran to concede, the question is how much longer Iran will continue to resist while racing to ensure that its main nuclear facilities become immune to air attacks.

Others were more pointed:  the actress Laverne Cox invited viewers to Google Gavin Grimm, the transgender teen who inadvertently ignited a national debate about bathrooms; A Tribe Called Quest's performance climaxed with a raised fist and a shout of "Resist!," while the rapper Busta Rhymes repeatedly referred to the President as Agent Orange.

In office, the party is likely to take up pro-business policies it has resisted while in opposition.

Both must be consistently resisted, while Ukraine must be encouraged to carry out reforms at the same time.

Sgt Rich Hanavan, a spokeswoman for the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, told The Independent 22-year-old Connor Ward was arrested on suspicion of theft and attempted assault on a police officer, after he allegedly resisted while being handcuffed.

He was always, I think, a revolutionist in his own way: one who resisted while, at the same time, loving Egyptian ways, so affectionately rendered in his vast fiction.

Their concerns have also required an engagement with the philosophy of biology, as naturalising accounts of embodiment have been resisted, while the distinctive materiality of our embodied situations in the world has nonetheless been respected (Birke, Bleier, Fausto-Sterling, Grosz, Haraway, Tuana).