Sentence examples for resisted them from inspiring English sources

The steel pipe is resistant to gunshots and has resisted them on several occasions, but on October 4, 2001, a drunken gunman named Daniel Carson Lewis shot a hole into a weld near Livengood, causing the second-largest mainline oil spill in pipeline history.

Neighborhoods have resisted them.

Wealthy residential areas have resisted them.

Schools systems have largely resisted them.

(Border-protection agencies already have resisted them).

Yet Mr Francis has resisted them, rightly, because it would send the wrong message.

In the past, Japan's central-government bureaucrats would have run roughshod over those who resisted them.

Many of these practices were environmentally unsound, and local residents generally resisted them.

He must resist them.

We have to resist them.

Labour should resist them".