I struggle to understand this sentence, whose multiple negatives resist reduction to sense.
The vision transcends national legislation, policy, and local languages, and it creates a supranational virtual population, whose seat of life is not in the organism but in the database, resisting reduction to existing local, biological, and legal forms of life.
J.S. Haldane, a physiologist, resisted reduction of biological phenomena to mechanistic explanations, as he saw the structure of biological organisms and their action being disanalogous to what was seen in physical systems.
"Quality will be under threat in coming years and we need to be able to resist reductions in funding," he said.
Charles Boorady, an analyst at Smith Barney, noted that many Calpers members were in unions that had resisted reductions in employer-paid benefits.
And Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a fiscal conservative and a senior Republican on the Budget Committee, vowed to resist reductions in space program spending that would flow back home.
Bobbies are more numerous today than in the mid-1990s, when law-breaking was at its peak.The police have long resisted reductions to their budgets.
It may turn out that the substance and style of teaching and learning that they want schools to cultivate is exactly the kind that resists easy reduction to standardized testing.
This substantiates Gadamer's claim that the hermeneutical constitution of an autonomous work resists theoretical reduction.
