Why did they not meet stronger and more sustained resistance?
"There is a sustained resistance, and it's shifting the way these companies are doing business".
For me, Sacks's writings, taken in their entirety, represent a sustained resistance to the pretensions of medical science.
Hizbullah may keep its arms and sustain "resistance" to Israel but should refrain from provoking Israeli attack and let other Lebanese get on with business.
England's first-innings reply was dismal, skittled by Shane Warne (four for 57) and Merv Hughes (four for 52) for 205, Atherton supplied the only sustained resistance and was eighth man out for 80.
A rearguard effort to sustain resistance, with giant Islamist sit-ins and marches, was met by crushing armed force.From the perspective of Egypt's 'deep state', victory appears now nearly complete.
But the truth is, we're at the beginning – either of a period of sustained resistance against a racist, misogynist, deranged climate-denier – or a period of sustained action to push the first female president to deliver a genuinely progressive, climate-conscious agenda.
Chinese officials charged with ensuring security, lavishly financed and permitted to operate above the law, have remained perpetually on edge, employing state-of-the-art surveillance, technologically sophisticated censorship, new crime-fighting tools, as well as proactive efforts to resolve labor and land disputes, all to prevent any organized or sustained resistance to single-party rule.
After the 1969 Stonewall riots, in which New York City policemen raided a gay bar and met with sustained resistance, many homosexuals were emboldened to identify themselves as gay men or lesbians to friends, to relatives, and even to the public at large.
Only Shivnarine Chanderpaul, with a typically dogged unbeaten 34 from 95 balls, and Marlon Samuels (26 not out) offered sustained resistance on a pitch that has flattened out the longer the game has gone on.
