There are writers who can describe visual art while honouring its resistance to language – Updike is the obvious example, though his name is missing from the roll call of allusion (perhaps it's the absentees who are the significant figures).
Indeed, even in the most obvious cases of evolutionary processes at work, such as antibiotic resistance, the language of evolutionary biology has been generally avoided (Antonovics et al. 2007).
The atmosphere in New York has been soured not just by Russian resistance to any language on military force but more importantly by the presentation on Monday of the UN inspectors' report on the 21 August chemical weapons attacks.
Khazai, Kunz-Plapp, Büscher, and Wegner focus on a tool (a wiki) to systematize the semantics of resilience and vulnerability, terms that are prominent for their fuzziness and resistance to unified language.
A key theme arising is the World Bank's resistance to the language of 'decent work,' at least in part because it is perceived to conflict with market imperatives.
Azzam begins to provide daily news from the Chechen resistance in 20 languages.
The restraint of these poems in part reflects Hmong languages' resistance to script; many appear to have existed for centuries without any written record.
The problem with destroying political movements is that resistance has to find a language, and the Muslim language is a very compelling, powerful and effective language for many people.
And music, the drumbeat of resistance, was a potent language of empowerment.
"Pursued and repeatedly imprisoned by dictators who feared him, his shining language of resistance has never dimmed and his sense of justice never faltered," Chakrabarti said.
The dust has scarcely had time to settle on the Health and Social Care Act, but already the air is thick with the language of "resistance".
