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resists
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n. (plural of resist English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: resist )
Usage examples of resists.
Nevertheless I could but approve the words which she had uttered with such an air of innocence--that if one resists desires, there is no danger of one being humiliated by giving way to them.
Say that by our present moves southward we do not mean to relax our pressure against the Soviet and that if Russia joins hands tighter with England and the United States and resists us with hostilities, we are ready to turn upon her with all our might.
To deal with the incumbent in power is the easiest course and the inertia of policy in foreign affairs resists the effort to change or take chances.
No matter how much he resists her help, she persistswaiting for any opportunity to help him or tell him what to do.
In addition we recognize that when our partner resists us it is probably because we have made a mistake in our timing or approach.
When a woman sees a man react in this way, she generally resists it and resents the man.
Sometimes she resists him because she thinks he wants her to give up herself.
Theresa asks her husband, Paul, for support, he resists her and appears burdened by her requests.
Instead you practice making it OK that he resists but continue waiting for him to say yes.
Hence, whoever resists the final decision of the highest judicial tribunal aims a deadly blow at our whole republican system of government--a blow which, if successful, would place all our rights and liberties at the mercy of passion, anarchy, and violence.
Nobody resists that, not only that, but they say to everybody else that persons standing just as Dred Scott stands are as he is.
Like the Mussets and Sands, he failed to see that the Grand Passion was produced by the restraints that opposed themselves to the sexual impulse, just as the deep lake is produced by the dam that bars the passage of the stream, and the flight of the aeroplane by the air which resists the impulsion given to it by the motor.
The dwelling-houses are built over the river on slender piles obtained from the Nibong palm which resists the action of the water for several years.