Ashcroft and the DOJ vigorously resisted challenges to its actions from the courts and from members of the U.S. Congress and the press.
In such chaos it is hard to prepare a trail of evidence that can stand up in American or European courts and resist challenges from top lawyers paid with the same dirty money nations seek to recover.
People who are certain of their opinions are more likely to buy, buy sooner, and spend more; more willing to recommend products; and more apt to resist challenges to their beliefs.
Full professors, who "have more tools to avoid or resist challenges to their abuses and prerogatives" (Martin, 2016, para. 55), were more likely to self-plagarize an abstract to our new international, interdisciplinary conference, which may have been perceived as less prestigious, and therefore less powerful.
Political scientists remind us that transitional periods can often prove disruptive, as "status quo" powers (in this case, the United States) resist challenges to their dominance from "revisionist" states seeking to alter the global power equation.
According to White House colleagues, in economic meetings in the Oval Office Summers can rarely resist challenging or correcting others, even Obama.
However, social media do provide options for diverse communities and citizens to communicate, resist, challenge and create a consciousness through popular culture.
On the ground, the most important consequences of the resulting paternalistic attitudes are that host populations regularly resist, challenge, or reject the international programs that are meant to help them.
But perhaps the greatest problem is that he resists challenging his mother's dying words; by the end, in fact, he's echoing them: "My London is fading," he writes.
To assess potential immunomodulatory effects of a drug, pollutant, or natural product, an analysis of an exposed host's ability to resist challenge with a viable bacteria is one of the best gauges.
