The French, those cheese-eating surrender monkeys of American opprobrium, have proved culturally resistant to transatlantic pressure in this as in other fields.
Although Saudi Arabia shares many of the conditions that bred the democracy uprisings — including autocracy, corruption and a large population of educated young people without access to suitable jobs — its people are cushioned by oil wealth and culturally resistant to change.
At the same time, although its subject matter seems far removed from today's concerns about the effects of modernization -- read Westernization or Americanization -- in culturally conservative, even resistant parts of the developing world, "Taisho Chic" offers a potent taste of the richness of artistic expression that can emerge when cultures simultaneously clash and meld.
Folk taxonomy, a subdiscipline of folkbiology, refers to the hierarchical nature of folkbiological classification (Atran et al. 2004) and tends to be culturally universal and resistant to change (Atran 1999).
I'm precious about it, and see it as being every bit as intellectually interesting and culturally significant, so I'm resistant to the joke".
Culturally and morphologically characterized yeast isolates were resistant to majority of the antibacterial drugs, because of their cell wall composition which differs with prokaryotes (Czerucka et al. 2007) and most of the isolates were sensitive towards maximum antifungal drugs (Mashad et al. 2012).
Nootka cypress is ecologically important in coastal forests, and economically and culturally important for its fibrous bark and decay-resistant wood.
There were two RCTs of culturally adapted CBT compared with treatment as usual, for treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and panic attacks in Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees in the USA.
By keeping this and discarding that, they forged a new, culturally specific art that was innovative within an Iranian context and actively resistant to the notion that Western modernism represented a universal standard.
Culturally unsophisticated?
