Most new structures have vinyl siding and fiberglass railings, both of which are weather resistant, giving things a sparkling, spanking-new veneer.
But Jude Boucher, a commercial crop educator with the University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension Service, said the new varieties, on balance, were better: more productive and often resistant to things like corn rust, with ears that are larger and taste better than the old corn.
For 20 years scientists have genetically modified foods (e.g., corn, soybean) to be more resistant to things like disease and insects, while richer in nutrients and healthier overall.
It captures still and video, and is water-resistant for things like rain showers and momentary submersion if you take an accidental dip.
You might be resistant to doing things differently, but remember, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
The vice-president, the most powerful in US history, has been the most resistant to admitting things are going badly.
Joan Didion wrote in an essay: "Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss".
Resistant to all things digital, Pink shrouds the music in a muted fuzz not heard since the heyday of home-taping, beneath which his tantalising melodies are half-submerged.
Mississippi is still a state where, the Times found, more than seventy per cent of people who live here were born here, in towns like the one where I grew up, and are consequently resistant to changing things.
Both are expressions of the psychic state of an embattled superpower, and not just any superpower, but our own, born in universal aspirations, congenitally prone to moral hubris and its discontents, supremely impatient with the protean, resistant nature of things as they are.
