Sentence examples for resisting the establishment from inspiring English sources

This markedly reduced delay in the 90Sr-treated mice lends support to suggestions that NK cells play an important role in resisting the establishment of tumour foci (i.e. in antitumour surveillance).

T. × glauca-dominated areas resisted the establishment of a native plant community.

Before the euro came into being in 1999 the then British chancellor, Gordon Brown, resisted the establishment of a "euro group" of finance ministers that excluded him.

There is, in the end, a powerfully American reason to resist the establishment of a national surveillance network: the cameras are not consistent with the values of an open society.

The broader cultural perversion of its meaning dates from the late 1960s, when the academic left pinned the label on faculty members who resisted the establishment of separate departments for what were then called "minority studies".

It is not clear why the opposition alliance continues to resist the swift establishment of the commission, which would consist of 40 scholars, 20 appointed by each side.

It isn't so, because the argument that there is a Democratic establishment resisting the progressive tide is a straw man.

The latter are prepared to suffer any number of indignities in their pursuit of power; nevertheless, the establishment proves capable of resisting the advance of "all but the most thick-hided and persevering" of outsiders.

Attempts to annihilate African traditional cultural practices were resisted through the establishment of ethnic social organizations in Brazil and Cuba, as well as through the masquerading of the orisha with the saints of Roman Catholicism.

Both finalists have the talent (or at least the "right sound") needed to have successful careers, although I'll be interested to see how Phillip does under Jimmy Iovine, since he's seemed so anti-establishment, in terms of resisting the image and vocal makeovers the producers have been pushing on the contestants all season long.

Philby later described "a genuine mental block that stubbornly resisted the belief that respected members of the establishment could do such things".