Sentence examples for resistant to criticism from inspiring English sources

Our leaders since Mr. Mandela have been deeply resistant to criticism and truth-telling.

His modesty is a kind of tough-guy act, a lack of vanity so aggressive it makes him almost wholly resistant to criticism.

Yet Mr. Putin has created a government so highly centralized and so resistant to criticism that it is unclear whether it can respond adeptly to rising dissatisfaction.

Concerns among some in the NGO and aid community that her appointment may herald a more hostile change of direction will also not have been alleviated by her statement that "some participants in the aid debate are resistant to criticism and sometimes unwilling to understand or even acknowledge genuine concerns".

Scalia thinks of himself as a pleasant fellow, and Biskupic reports that he was dumbfounded when Jon Stewart, in response to a Daily Show guest who suggested that John Roberts was nicer than Scalia, replied, "Aren't we all nicer than Scalia?" But if Scalia were less Manichean, defensive, pleased with himself and resistant to criticism, he might be more persuasive.

Republicans seem immune to criticism.

Mass culture has grown and evolved; it has become more fully "naturalized" and therefore further resistant to critique, even as cultural criticism flourishes.

And the BBC was completely brilliant in being resistant to the criticism, standing by me and giving me the space and platform to get news out that it recognised to be in the public interest.

The letters, sent to scientists in Britain, the US and elsewhere, attack the UN's panel as "resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent and prone to summary conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work" and ask for essays that "thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model outputs".

In an October 2011 report, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), an oversight body for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, said that GPEI may never eradicate polio without fundamental changes in a culture and management style the board characterized as insular, stuck in old habits, averse to criticism, and resistant to innovation.

This is a highly unlikely result and is probably due to masked clones resistant to SP becoming dominant post treatment, a common criticism of PCR-correction.