Sentence examples for resisted out from inspiring English sources

There were even simple accounting procedures that Straus resisted out of nothing more than stubbornness and old age.

Foreign investors and many of Italy's business leaders hope for such a technical government, but lawmakers have resisted out of fears of losing power.

While most of the world has shifted power closer to the local level, he said, the Arab states have resisted out of a fear that they might be divided up as they were under colonial rule.

The European announcement on Sunday, made after a summit meeting in Paris, did not include a Europe-wide fund, which some governments have resisted out of fear they would have to bail out banks in other countries.

The government heavily subsidizes whale capture, at the behest of a very small but influential group of older citizens who are trying to keep the tradition of whale meat consumption alive and who have resisted, out of national pride, global efforts to restrict the practice.

Consequently, the improved BRBs with sufficient stiffness to resist out-of-plane buckling at both ends have acceptable cyclic performance according to the test results.

The results of the experimental tests confirmed that the NSM CFRP retrofit technique is a minimally-invasive option for seismic strengthening of URM walls to resist out-of-plane earthquake induced lateral forces.

I resisted pointing out that Moller HAD been out flying his Skycar.

In fact, when you are driven to resist out of fear of being controlled, you are not free to make your own choices.

Now, whenever I'm feeling stuck and uninspired, I ask myself whether I'm resisting out of fear, or if my creative energies are just not in flow with the task at hand.

EC is any referral the adolescent feels he or she cannot resist out of fear of sanctions, such as being kicked out of something (school, services, and programmes), being placed out of home, or being detained or otherwise being sanctioned by Justice authorities.