Sentence examples for resisted participation from inspiring English sources

Having resisted participation in Nazi politics after the Anschluss (incorporation of Austria into the German Reich, March 1938), he was, at the end of World War II, appointed mayor of Vienna by the Soviet occupation authorities.

At a meeting in June, the teenage girls gently teased younger sisters, mothers prodded finicky daughters to eat and some youngsters resisted participation in activities they perceived as babyish.

Consequently, it is unsurprising that Nikolic has steadfastly resisted participation in EU sanctions against Russia over its belligerence in Ukraine despite EU pressure.

Conversely, when ORC is low, the staff involved are more likely to consider change as undesirable and may avoid or even resist participation [ 4, 11, 22, 30, 35, 36].

That is, observations of students who appeared to resist participation in the class activities at various times suggested that they became motivated once they were able to focus on the task at hand.

The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the police officers' union, once strongly resisted civilian participation.

Authorities can also resist public participation and transparency indirectly through the way they make essential information available to the public.

But it resists allowing Israeli participation.

Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, has been openly disdainful of the quartet's participation, and Mr. Bush resisted endorsing the proposal until after the Iraq war.

But Wilson was so much more a man of theory than of action that he resisted compromise and sabotaged his own effort to win American participation in the League of Nations.

Any break with the Europeans, however, is likely to be be resisted by the State Department, which has stressed the importance of American participation in the European plan to maintain Atlantic political ties.