Sentence examples for resists him from inspiring English sources

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When she resists him, he rapes her and then discovers that she is his sister.

Even when Juan waves the letter as proof of his identity, Diego resists him, and Juan is forced to wage a campaign to win him over.

The central character, Paul Morel, is naturally identified as Lawrence; the miner-father who drinks and the powerful mother who resists him are clearly modeled on his parents; and the painful devotion of Miriam Leivers resembles that of Jessie Chambers.

Add an irresistible anti-hero eager for a conquest that eludes him precisely because he understands nothing, in the end, about the people he dreams of subduing; a hapless yet winning indigenous population that, almost by accident, successfully resists him; and digressions powerfully evoking the cultures whose fates are at stake in these grand conflicts.

The other warning of schism, though veiled in regret, came from the conservative American journalist Ross Douthat, who wrote on Sunday that "[Conservative Catholics] might want to consider the possibility that they have a role to play, and that this pope may be preserved from error only if the church itself resists him".

Initially she resists him, but when Ciane her protector is turned by Pluto into a spring of water, she is overcome.

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The video features references to horror cult films such as Saw and American Psycho and the supposedly haunted painting The Hands Resist Him.

No one could resist him.

I could not resist him.

Older voters still resist him.

Meanwhile, musicologists have continued to resist him.

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