Sentence examples for resisting standard from inspiring English sources

By Sasha Frere-Jones Marshall is a conjurer; she brings a song home by resisting standard line readings.

She had found the place, between an incantation and a whisper, where her voice wanted to settle, and revealed herself to be a conjurer, like Nina Simone and Patti Smith: someone who could bring a song home, not through force but by teasing and delaying words, and by resisting standard line readings.

Chocolate rules have led to legal battles since 1973, when Britain, Ireland and Denmark joined the European Union in resisting standards that required chocolate to contain only cocoa fats.

The authorities thought the man, Mohamed al-Kahtani, had information about possible future attacks, but he had resisted standard interrogation techniques.

Twenty patients with PTSD who had resisted standard treatments including both Ms Westerfield and the security contractor were given an experimental drug in combination with psychotherapy.

"For reasons that are very hard to understand, these objects have resisted standard measurement techniques," Mushotzky said.

Given the challenges of treating cancers that resist standard treatments, he said, "we should be open to new therapies".

Interestingly, though, Aragon et al. [57] have recently reported that mRNAs in starved yeast cells are sequestered in proteinatious complexes and therefore resist standard extraction procedures.

Streptomyces isolates varied in their abilities to inhibit and resist standard strains, consistent with previous work [ 4].

Furthermore, these cells resist standard therapies and can be converted from non-CSC cells under certain conditions.

This group also has noted that bacteria within the biofilm can differentiate into "protected phenotypic states" permitting these sessile bacteria to further resist standard antibiotic strategies.