Sentence examples for resisted more than from inspiring English sources

Now that influence is being put to the test again on the issue of Syria, where the president has so far resisted more than modest American involvement.

Afghan society has resisted more than 150 years of such endeavors by outsiders, from the British to the Russians to the Americans.

It has become a familiar process with buildings of the 1960s, but the University of Essex has resisted more than most.

Since the various players were all building around the same set of colors, it was hard for any one of them to change — a classic chicken-and-egg problem, which resisted more than two decades of rapid technological change.

Stronger connections resisted more than twice the load compared to the weaker connections.

Cumulative number of blows versus depth ratio indicated that open-ended steel pile resisted more than closed-end steel pile which this may be due to soil plug in the open-ended steel pile (Fig. 3).

Denmark has had only about 500 TB cases; they were analyzed for resistance to standard antibiotics and were generally found not to resist more than one strain.

"Each painting and art object may be attached, but nothing can resist more than 30 minutes of effort to remove it unless it has military armor," he said.

While this may be inconvenient for television viewers, FIFA requires that the final pair of matches for each group start at the same time, to keep teams from knowing in advance the outcome of the other decisive match in their group — an advantage that proved too tempting to resist more than thirty years ago.

This coating was capable of resisting more than 7 days in contact with the aggressive electrolyte suffering minor corrosion degradation.

But that is exactly why it is our job as adults to protect them, even if sometimes it means protecting them from their own propensity to work more than play, to resist more than relax, to become rather than just be.