Sentence examples for sentences resist from inspiring English sources

Some of his sentences resist all but the most determined efforts at decryption: "Fundamentally the development was one in which the 'inter' in interliths was given independent existence or aseity.

Vague sentences resist mixed interpretations.

During the day, his sentences resisted change, stared back at him defiantly, warned him not to mess with them.

Mr. Kartashov now faces a possible 10-year sentence for resisting the police.

It was the same on Thursday, when Mr. Navalny was released after serving yet another 15-day sentence for resisting the police.

Aleksei Navalny, a popular blogger who has helped mobilize young Russians over the past year, sent an address from the prison where he is serving a 15-day sentence for resisting the police.

MOSCOW — A day after the largest antigovernment protests in more than five years, a Moscow court on Monday slapped the opposition leader behind the outburst, Aleksei A. Navalny, with a 15-day prison sentence for resisting arrest.

I struggle to understand this sentence, whose multiple negatives resist reduction to sense.

But if the victim was unconscious or severely intoxicated, and thus the assailant didn't need to use force because the victim could not resist, judges can sentence offenders to little or no jail time. .

It is impossible to resist the opening sentence of this sumptuously produced, Booker-longlisted novel: "On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the Emperor of Japan".

But some prosecutors are continuing to resist changes to mandatory minimum sentencing.