Sentence examples for was quite resistant from inspiring English sources

In contrast, tomato breeding line H7996, a widely-used source of BW disease resistance, was quite resistant to tropical strain GMI1000; only 12% of the plants were dead by 14 dpi (Figure 1).

Someone who was quite resistant to ever delivering a leaflet for me is now standing for the Westminster parliament".

It was observed that the mesophilic anaerobic contact reactor (MACR) was quite resistant to large transient shocks.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa was quite resistant and Saccharomyces cerevisiae was more sensitive than others microbial isolates.

Almost the same percentage of Cy-3-xyl was found in the caecum and colon of mice which indicates that Cy-3-xyl was quite resistant to the degradation in the gut.

Continetti said, "The Clintons have been quite resistant to scandal.

The schist and gneiss are quite resistant to erosion; marble, which is less resistant, underlies the valleys.

"In really sick people it can cause quite serious damage and it's quite resistant to antibiotics as well," he said.

But it now seems that the world filled up early and the first inhabitants were quite resistant to displacement by later arrivals.

Lauzen, a film professor at San Diego state university, called the numbers shockingly low: "The film industry is quite resistant to change.

The hydrocarbon part of a fatty acid molecule is quite resistant to chemical attack unless carbon-carbon double bonds are present.