This means resisting party-political temptations to revive the debate about extended pre-charge detention for terror suspects, in order to look as "tough on terror" as his predecessor, in the run-up to the general election.
Better still, churches resisted party labels.
Civil servants are bound by their own professional standards to resist party political corruption.
On Wednesday Sanders conceded that it "doesn't appear" he would be the Democratic nominee this year, though he has resisted party pressure to exit the race and endorse Clinton.
This was a worthy sequel to the previous day, when, as one wit remarked, a party with just one MP had managed a backbench rebellion – as Ukip's solitary presence in Westminster, Douglas Carswell resisted party pressure to take the parliamentary subsidy known as Short money.
Mr. Koizumi destroyed the old political machine, but many Liberal Democrats are resisting their party's transformation into a truly modern political party galvanized by a common ideological agenda.
Cooper continued his independence from his party throughout his term, vocally opposing Republican plans to cut taxes despite record national budget deficits and resisting the party's efforts to reduce funding for the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe in the aftermath of the war.
"It is likely that Ri Yong-ho was sacked while resisting the party's attempt to control the military," said Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at the Sejong Institute.
In his jeans and a swanky black jacket, this political scientist, who joined the IRP in 1998, contrasts with the IRP's old guard, some members of which have been resisting the party's evolution.
Few openly complain, but some resist the party's embrace.
Both of them had bravely resisted their party's previous efforts to pass damaging health-care bills.
