Sentence examples for were to resist from inspiring English sources
It was necessary to have a very strong party structure and for party leaders to have extensive authority if the groups were to resist such centrifugal pressure.
Italy and the US have an extradition agreement, he said, and if the US were to resist attempts to extradite it might risk having problems "going the other way and probably with other countries".
If Rosenstein were to resist Trump's demand and Trump fired him, too, it would fall to Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand to oversee the probe and make that decision.
If Heresiarch were to resist being searched because one of these conditions was not met, he probably risks being prosecuted for obstructing a CSO in the execution of his/her duty, an offence for which, if found guilty, he could be sent to prison for up to a month or fined up to £1,000.
Unless the law unambiguously requires them to protect nature -- gives them legal cover, as it were, to resist industry blandishments -- we could see a return to the days of aggressive logging, when what counted in a manager's résumé was not whether he harmonized the competing needs of nature and commerce but whether he met his annual "cut".
Above all, a new question about Kosovo's future would arise, because under its June resolution the UN is committed only to "Yugoslav", not Serbian, sovereignty.A darker possibility is that, if Montenegro were to declare independence, and Mr Milosevic were to resist its breaking away, NATO might get another call for help.
My advice is to resist that urge.
My advice is to resist the pitch.
My initial reaction was to resist his demand.
The second is to resist seceding from the Iraqi state.
