The Palestinian factions have signed a reconciliation and cooperation agreement, which is likely to spur Palestinian resistance to the occupation and Arab and international support for that resistance.
The Parthenon was a pagan temple, a church, a mosque, an arms depot (disastrously, under the Turks) and even a place from which the Nazis hung a big swastika flag whose removal by Greek patriots helped spur a resistance movement.
Even so, health warnings can spur consumer resistance that can change the marketplace faster than laws and regulations.
Widespread antibiotic use in both humans and animals spurs drug resistance in these harmless bacteria, and resistance genes can jump species lines into disease-causing bacteria, says meeting co-organizer Stuart Levy of Tufts University School of Medicine.
The directives can complicate business deals for Catholic Health, as they can for other Catholic health care providers, partly by spurring political resistance.
In doing so, these revisionist powers typically encounter resistance, spur opposing coalitions, and increase the likelihood of diplomatic crises, conflict and war.
Some are encouraged that the clashes are at least spurring greater public resistance to ISIS both by rebels who think this could prod the West, long worried about the lack of rebel co-ordination and their mixing with extremists, into helping them and local populations.
And it has largely focused eradication efforts, of the kind that once spurred strong popular resistance, outside the areas controlled by growers' unions, like in national parks.
Yet in the 1890s, when a vaccine was widely administered in the United States during an outbreak of a mild strain, public health authorities encountered extensive resistance, spurring them to militarize immunization efforts, and even to vaccinate citizens by force.
Erdogan's decision to bulldoze Istanbul's popular Gezi Park last year led to a series of bloody clashes that ended up spurring a nationwide resistance movement.
