While her brimming talent and light coppery skin had allowed her comfortable entry into the swimming world, Terry met crude resistance when someone scrawled "nigger" on her car, according to the her mother, Debra Terry.
Whenever I tell that anecdote, I get resistance from someone who claims to have been carrying a clipboard right before buying a kazillion-dollar-apartment in One57, and if I weren't so quick to jump to conclusions, why then I'd have my own yacht.
"Joining the party is simply the path of least resistance for someone who is upwardly mobile," said Rick Baum, a China specialist at UCLA.
At the 10th anniversary celebration for a landmark climate law, he said the issue of climate change is about "human existence," not "human resistance". Did someone forward you this? Sign up here to get Essential Politics in your inbox daily.
Home equity lines of credit had dried up, there was additional scrutiny on underwriting mortgages, and credit cards pulling back on offers made student loans the path of least resistance for someone needing cash.
Surely the whataboutists will claim the left's angry "resistance" rhetoric encouraged someone to attempt to murder Republican legislators.
Typically, when people have weak respiratory muscles common in conditions such as Pompe disease or COPD physicians prescribe respiratory therapy that trains their lungs as they inhale and exhale against resistance, just as someone would lift weights to gain strength.
True violations, he said, involved more resistance than "you telling someone to come here, and them saying, 'No, screw you.' " But when I asked him to explain the ordinance further, he said, "I'd have to read it again").
Recognition of the importance of tailoring was important in helping engage practices and overcoming resistance to change: "If someone was very sort of data oriented and you didn't come with this, then you would get a lot of resistance… if your approach to that practice doesn't align with their practice culture, I think it would be harder to make progress" [PF4-88].
Cusk emerges as someone for whom resistance is second nature.
