Sentence examples for seldom resist from inspiring English sources

Other women appeared, and Hughes could seldom resist them.

And the authors seldom resist the urge to abbreviate.

He lived in and for writing, and could seldom resist a commission or a challenge.

While polls show the European public believes we should speak as a singular entity, ambitious politicians seldom resist fanning the flames of national passions.

The Israeli Army frequently enters Palestinian cities in the West Bank in what it says are searches for wanted men, and gunmen now seldom resist those raids.

Still today, certain people, notably feminists, would like to move them to the back shelves of the library, because, so often, the villain is a woman, doing violence to girls, and also because the girls seldom resist.

Associates at the Justice Department said Mr. Gonzales seldom resisted pressure from Vice President Dick Cheney and David S. Addington, Mr. Cheney's counsel, to endorse policies that they saw as effective in safeguarding Americans, even though the practices brought the condemnation of other governments, human rights groups and Democrats in Congress.

Hannah Citrin, 25, an actress from Miami Beach, who could not resist posting a joke, said she had stayed "alert," which seldom happens during services.

Though I seldom needed much else after tackling that appetizer platter, the temptations were hard to resist.

Even the densest concrete seldom weighs more than 60 percent of its weight in air when fully immersed in seawater; consequently, such blocks may have to be as much as 30 tons (27,000 kilograms) in weight to resist excessive movement.

Pirates resist.