If they can't make clear what their work involves, the public will resist advances.
Mr. Moreno said that he was a recovering alcoholic, and that he was concerned about the woman's drinking; he said he resisted advances from the woman, even when she took off all her clothes except her bra.
Other news accounts said that Qaddafi loyalists had resisted advances on Surt and that anti-Qaddafi fighters trying to attack Bani Walid were poorly trained, with at least two killing themselves with misfired weapons.
The Pathans (Pashtuns) of the northwest are a large, indigenous group that has long resisted advances by invaders and that has at times sought to establish an autonomous state within Pakistan.
The experts tend to fall into two camps: those who can't resist advancing a theory about the art, and those who believe that there isn't, and never will be, enough evidence to support one.
In fact, it sometimes seems that not even the most moderate preacher or politician in the Muslim world can resist advancing the occasional conspiracy theory regarding "the Crusaders and Jews," by which most Muslims simply mean them: that faceless, colonialist, Zionist, imperialist "other" who is not us.
In leaving West Florida, according to the U.S. Indian Agent Hawkins, Nicolls had left local forces with the arms and means to resist advancing American encroachments which were leading up to Andrew Jackson's First Seminole War.
The character's self-denial is never as persuasively motivated as the playwright means it to be, and her stubborn resistance to the hard-to-resist advances, both amorous and intellectual, of an editor, Michael (amorously and intelligently played by Stephen Stout) are actually annoyingly silly.
In Iraq, the leader of the Albu Nimr tribe told this newspaper how 864 of his tribesmen had been killed over the previous year for resisting Isis advances.
