Sentence examples for seeks to resist from inspiring English sources

The Senate and the House of Representatives passed bills to approve a loan package to shore up Ukraine's unstable economy as it seeks to resist further intervention from Russia.

"But now, complementary and alternative medicine, which seeks to resist and challenge the authority of orthodox medicine, is trying to construct its own image of Hippocrates as a natural healer".

And we meet and grow familiar with a cast of real and semi-fictionalised characters: Montaigne's great dead friend Estienne de La Boëtie, whose appropriation by political radicals Montaigne repeatedly seeks to resist, and his great classical hero, the Theban general Epaminondas, on whose life and actions Montaigne substantially elaborates.

Williams himself seeks to resist this revolution, but does not dispute its occurrence.

It should include support to Sunni Iraqis who seek to resist ISIS.

Ms. Lo said she sought to resist but was afraid, and that he tried to take photographs.

"I can hardly imagine the world's biggest Internet portal picking a fight or seeking to resist".

These robberies frequently result in bloodshed, particularly when victims seek to resist with weapons of their own.

Like their Jewish counterparts, Shiite religious authorities have traditionally sought to resist speculation about the imminence of a messianic return.

"No sensible government would seek to resist people's access to drugs in any way and the reason for resisting is the government believes there is another pathway.

Insiders say that, ever since the 1980s, Jordan has sought to resist American requests to pre-position weapons in the country.