Sentence examples for which I resisted from inspiring English sources

I learned that I have a very poor tolerance for pain, and I had time to consider every fantasy of my youth in which I resisted some torturer for a cause of right.

"My father wasn't particularly secret about his sexuality," says Matthew. "On the contrary, he wanted to enlist me in this sort of conspiracy of men against women, which I resisted.

For years, my mortgage adviser tried to spook me into buying insurance for my modestly mortgaged one-bedroom flat with various euphemistic scenarios, all of which I resisted until, during our third annual mortgage review, he cracked and blurted out: What if you get cancer?!

She has long urged me to join her in Twitter-land, which I've resisted.

I have been listening particularly closely of late to the participants on these shows, and those on Clive Anderson's Chat Room on Radio 2, and on Five Live shows such as Richard Bacon and Gabby Logan, as I am involved in the production of three broadcast pilots of a talkshow for Five Live - which I am resisting the temptation to gratuitously plug - and we are currently booking panellists.

But I was determined to not let that happen with chickens, which I have successfully resisted keeping even as my neighbors have fallen one by one under their spell.

The Believer, Salon, The Guardian — these were like the bars in which I could never resist just one more drink.

On the Raiders' masthead, he was listed as managing general partner, which I couldn't resist translating to "managing general genius".

(This is a problematic tradition in German media, which I abhor and resist: journalists are supposed to go back to their interviewees for quote approval).

Except for a quarter of a glass of 30-year port offered to me a few months later, which I couldn't resist, and which was delicious, and which I regretted, that's how it has been.

Clark, who set up a production company called Pett in 2001 with Reeves and Mortimer, said: "This is an incredibly exciting and challenging opportunity, which I couldn't resist.