Sentence examples for subtle resistance from inspiring English sources

Her point, she said, is "to brainstorm about specific blocking and tackling techniques to overcome the subtle resistance".

In a form of subtle resistance that he insists is also a genuine effort at lawmaking, Mr. Binder has proposed a ban of his own, a law that would prohibit adults from smoking in a car when children are passengers.

It is not difficult to detect a subtle resistance to the National Socialist worldview and (what Heidegger understood as) its Nietzschean roots in Heidegger's 1938 critique of Western humanity's drive toward the total mastery of the world through "calculating, planning, and breeding".

Here's how it does the job: Five- centimeter-wide bands of Lycra, stitched throughout the suit, lie parallel to muscle groups up and down the arms, legs and torso, adding what Wilkinson calls a "subtle resistance" to the body's natural movements.

The subtle resistance to the uranium mine once called Mi Vida — "my life" — baffles Zoellner.

Walker calls Momma's way a "strategy of subtle resistance" and McPherson calls it "the dignified course of silent endurance".

This may be due to high-risk subjects being in a later stage of preclinical disease development in which altered insulin secretion is a far more dominant feature relative to subtle insulin resistance.

He wrote that video games provided players with a way to experience war time situations and called the usage of the cathedral "the most powerful of these moments" and the "subtlest" in Resistance.

It is a subtle form of resistance — one that shows a healthy skepticism about what technology has to offer.

The professor, having glanced earlier at the apron while being served by its wearer, saw in it not so much fertility images as subtle symbols of resistance to oppression, especially that of the militarized rich, with those geometric lines like bars to be broken to free the life arrested behind them.

That's a more subtle form of resistance, a form of self-doubt, wherein we undermine our own possibility: "I'm not sure I can do that".