Sentence examples for which he resisted from inspiring English sources

Reese was criticized for a low-key off-season in which he resisted making a splashy free-agent signing.

Over Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson put increasing pressure on Wilson to provide a British contingent - which he resisted.

His hold, however, was weakened by his insistence on decentralized government and was finally broken by a Portuguese invasion, which he resisted for three years.

The only hint of his fascination was his business card, which he resisted changing despite his boss's complaint that it looked unprofessional.

Later he was to lead the industry into its modern configuration of corporate bureaucratic control, a change which he resisted, and then reluctantly embraced.

We're here to talk about the concluding panel of Christopher Nolan's Batman triptych, which he resisted directing for a while, having failed to answer for himself the pertinent and sobering question: how many movie trilogies have a triumphant part three?

As the novel unfolds, he discerns becoming a Jesuit, later takes on a job teaching at a prep school in Vermont, and eventually starts talking to a psychiatrist who prescribes him anti-depressants, which he resists taking for some time.

Five months later, in what might be seen as his first declaration of independence, he quit in open protest against cuts in benefits for Vietnam vets, which he'd resisted unsuccessfully.

The defense called for a competency assessment and moved to have Roof declared mentally unfit, which he vigorously resisted.

In 1897, 1902, 1907, and 1911 he attended Imperial Conferences at which he steadily resisted British proposals for closer ties that might commit Canada to defense responsibilities.

It lists tapas, gazpacho, ceviche, a Mallorcan frito misto, roast suckling pig, salt-crusted fish and even a paella, which he originally resisted serving at Meigas.