Sentence examples for to resist us from inspiring English sources

The Castro regime fulfilled the prophecy when it sought Soviet aid to resist US efforts to destroy it.

Anna Macdonald, of Oxfam International, said: "We will need more leadership from ministers this week to resist US pressure".

Regional support may make it easier for the country offering asylum to resist US pressure for extradition.

China sent more than a million troops to fight in the 1950-1953 Korean war, which is still officially known there as the "war to resist US aggression and aid Korea".

Gen Kayani will continue to resist US pressure to go after three groups that the ISI still consider long-term assets – Mullah Omar, the Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba.

@SHMH1" In fact after years of nutritionally correct meals the calorific charms of McDonald's (an Olympic sponsor, lest we forget) seemed impossible for athletes to resist; US swimmer Ricky Berens was certainly ecstatic about being able to fill up with junk food, tweeting: "Finally!!!!

Yet it exacerbates the modern tendency toward navel-gazing, while asking us to resist useful aspects of our nature.

Even so, the moral objection reasonably implores us to resist using them.

For nine months, Golding did in fact resist US pressure to extradite Coke.

He veers from a slangy, conversational, wisecracking style to the tone of a perceptive philosopher, unable to resist mesmerising us with alliteration or suddenly dropping on us the sort of rhythmic street poetry that earned him the reluctant soubriquet "godfather of rap", equally able to evoke a mood of urgency or tenderness.

Only hours before the Basra non-event, one of Iraq's most esteemed Shia authorities, Ayatollah Sistani, had dented coalition hopes of a southern uprising by reiterating a fatwa calling on all Muslims to resist the US-led forces.