Sentence examples for resisted describing from inspiring English sources

When Mr. Giuliani, in 1994, supported a partial ban on smoking in restaurants, Mr. Lhota, a cigar enthusiast, resisted, describing smoking as a personal matter outside the government's purview.

In 1959, when the Sunday Times suggested he take an all-expenses-paid, round-the-world trip and write a series of travel articles, Fleming resisted, describing himself as "the world's worst sightseer".

Senior officials in Seoul who deal with the North have resisted describing in detail what those actions might include, although Mr. Lee said recently that a reduction of up to 30 percent in the North's military budget would be a welcome signal.

However, while 'resilient' fit the other end of the continuum for some participants, others resisted describing themselves this way and suggested that a broader population might not understand the term.

Many hospitals, however, resist describing what they do as alternative.

That said, Spielberg can't resist describing his work with DiCaprio as being that of a "paternal director".

I'm not unhappy, for sure". Alongside the robe, shaved head and close relationship with the Dalai Lama, Ricard, who has a manner that it is difficult to resist describing as twinkly, also has a nice line in self-deprecation.

An incorrigible gossip, Herzen cannot resist describing the scene in which Nicholas engages his equally iron-willed daughter in a staring contest so prolonged that nearby courtiers begin to panic.

With her sweet, wonky smile (bitter souvenir of the Taliban's attack – her facial muscles are unable to rally on her left side), there is singularity mixed with what I am trying to resist describing as saintliness.

Still, he could not resist describing the hanging in vivid detail: "I remember what a fine figure she showed against the sky as she hung in the misty rain, and how the tight black silk gown set off her shape as she wheeled half-round and back".

Third, related, when one event produces another event, e.g. fertilizer enables better plant growth, Reid strongly resists describing that interaction as necessary (The Correspondence of Thomas Reid 2006, 234, 243).