Sentence examples for resisted trends from inspiring English sources

They resisted trends as easily as they resisted new, but pointless, directions in design.

The current E.P.A. has resisted these trends.

Mr. Cunningham also resisted the trends of celebrity dressing.

As a photographer, he resisted modernizing trends toward abstraction and new kinds of technical wizardry.

Her last record, from four years ago, "Comfort of Strangers," was the exception and the way forward: dry and driven, powered by a minimal band, it resisted all trends and brought out her best songwriting.

The wised-up one-liners and the world-weary sentiment belonged to a particular time and place, and as Cannon aged he gruffly resisted new trends in sportswriting and athletic behavior.

If the myth of Amazons resisted heterosexual trends while relishing homosocial fidelities, it is perhaps in large part because images and sculptures of evidently revered women have been fashioned at least since the early Neolithic period (10,000 BCE), during which certain settlements retained matrilineal, if not matriarchal, social orders.

Depositors acting on their own behalf would probably have resisted that trend and insisted on a more conservative and less "efficient" style of banking, which nonetheless had the considerable advantage of exposing their deposits to less risk.Be that as it may, moral hazard, which banks were invented to tame, has now become one of the chief weaknesses in the international financial system.

One country has stubbornly resisted this trend.

Asian economies have so far resisted this trend.

But one pitcher has resisted the trend toward fragility.