Tse talks of Hong Kong literature's "highly experimental language", with its "tradition of resistance to the language of daily life".
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.
Even if the extensional properties of language are tractable, it is unclear why we would want a systematic theory of them when they are so deeply mottled.[4] Resistance to I-languages and Chomsky's philosophy of language more generally has often centred on the nature of the realization relation at its heart.
Our resistance to the political language and proposals that concern us must go beyond prophetic utterances and symbolic actions.
The subcommittee chair, Dennis Kucinich, broke new ground on Capitol Hill by challenging the drug czar, whose testimony preceded mine, on his continuing commitment to supply control strategies notwithstanding their persistent failure, and on his resistance to embracing the language of harm reduction notwithstanding its growing acceptance by governments elsewhere.
Depending on whom you talk to in the steep, alpine enclaves of Graub?n, otherwise known as Grisons, the easternmost wedge of the country, there is either strong support or bitter resistance to Romansh, the local language.
The low response rate is believed to result from consumer resistance to unsolicited phone calls, language barriers, the multi-stage interview design (respondents could decline or drop out at several points), and the high level of participant burden [ 33].
Interestingly, switchers and non-switchers also differed on two out of four subtests of the Wechsler-Intelligence Scale (German Version) which were administered to examine whether there is a link between resistance to interference in the language task and aspects of intelligence.
