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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resistance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
encounter opposition/resistance
▪ The government has encountered strong opposition to its plans to raise income tax.
passive resistance
▪ They tried to achieve their aims by passive resistance.
stout defence/support/resistance
▪ He put up a stout defence in court.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
antimicrobial
▪ Objective I-C.. Improve surveillance and rapid laboratory identification to ensure early detection of antimicrobial resistance.
▪ The current crisis in antimicrobial resistance can not be adequately managed without dramatic changes in current patterns of antimicrobial drug usage.
▪ The development of antimicrobial resistance is a dynamic process requiring continual surveillance of organism susceptibility over time.
▪ For example, the true magnitude of the antimicrobial drug resistance crisis is unknown because of the absence of systematic monitoring.
great
▪ It is interesting to note that there appears to be great resistance to acknowledging the full impact of secularism on schools.
▪ The greatest resistance to union came primarily from the Gaelic peoples who inhabited the largest separate island to the west, Ireland.
▪ The parents start to react inappropriately to the child, attempt to force feed, and cause greater resistance.
▪ It is a very host centered view to expect greater resistance in the home lake.
▪ As well as these weather-resisting advantages, the cavity wall has greater sound and thermal insulating properties and a greater resistance to overturning.
▪ There was great resistance initially, but now almost every opera house uses them.
▪ On Earth the much greater air resistance masks this effect.
▪ The abolition of the sororities evidently did not take place without a great deal of resistance.
high
▪ The high resistance speaker used in previous experiments would not be satisfactory.
▪ They also have high impact resistance, offering unbeatable value, quality and performance.
▪ The space shuttle uses specially designed ceramic tiles with very high thermal resistances to prevent conduction during re-entry.
▪ Polycarbonate can be made as clear as glass, with high resistance to scratching and impact damage.
▪ The boots also showed high water resistance.
little
▪ The police began making arrests, finally, and there was little resistance.
▪ Crossing the Rapidan with but little resistance...
▪ Hoard and Graham plowed downfield, with the Raiders offering little resistance.
▪ They met little resistance, agents claim.
passive
▪ The Magdalen College affair, for example, provides a classic example of passive resistance.
▪ Nor could Edna forgive Jane her offensive passive resistance.
▪ Within the classroom too teachers have to live with an active or passive resistance to their best efforts.
▪ Open negativism turns into stony passive resistance.
▪ There was great resentment, and considerable passive resistance.
▪ But passive resistance doesn't work.
▪ You can either hit these germs with an antibiotic, or paralyse your bowels and win through passive resistance.
▪ Chancellor Cuno's government proclaimed a policy of passive resistance, which entailed unlimited subsidies to the population of the Ruhr.
political
▪ Everything was out in the open - political resistance, management failings and just sheer inertia.
▪ What was needed now was a major legislative victory that would change the atmosphere of political resentment and resistance on Capitol Hill.
▪ Such questions are important because they probe the conditions under which political and cultural resistance is generated.
▪ There is recognition of the political resistance at home to waging wars against the colonial revolution in the name of anticommunism.
▪ Paradoxically, a true anti-sexist curriculum is one that encourages creative and political resistance - both in and out of school.
▪ Openness is becoming universal, and will continue to do so, whatever political resistance there may be.
▪ They insisted on fostering legal forms of opposition and on social rather than political resistance.
▪ Funding problems and political resistance are creating hurdles to the process, however.
strong
▪ There may be more reluctance, even strong resistance, to a transfer of role.
▪ In attempting to implement the new policy via decree, Gordon had encountered strong patient resistance.
▪ This had not been mentioned in the original discussions, so strong resistance to its being handed out had to be overcome.
▪ At the same time he was capable of strong resistance to conformity.
▪ Deep-rooted emotional stability. Strong resistance to stress.
▪ Sammler against strong internal resistance saw him.
▪ Lack of resources and strong resistance to breaking down barriers between health care agencies are other contributing factors.
▪ This sets up competition among individuals and often a strong resistance to much-needed changes.
stubborn
▪ However, Wainwright offered stubborn resistance, and responded with some hard hitting from the baseline to level the score at 6-6.
▪ What accounted for this stubborn resistance of nationalities to the predicted assimilation?
▪ After two-and-a-half years of stubborn resistance, the Republic collapsed rapidly during the first three months of 1939.
■ NOUN
air
▪ The actual path taken by the orbiter is complex and designed to minimize the effect of air resistance on the craft.
▪ This holds precisely because all objects fall at the same speed under gravity. Air resistance is being ignored here.
▪ No atmosphere means no air resistance.
▪ No air resistance means that it is easier to demonstrate one of the most important features of how gravity works.
▪ The problem of air resistance could be broken down into shape and surface effects.
▪ On Earth the much greater air resistance masks this effect.
▪ Above the atmosphere there is no air resistance no matter what the speed.
▪ For the moment let us forget about air resistance and assume that the whole set up is in free fall.
drug
▪ This is a mechanism of drug resistance distinct from amplification and multidrug-resistance described previously.
▪ For example, the true magnitude of the antimicrobial drug resistance crisis is unknown because of the absence of systematic monitoring.
▪ Fears of the emergence of drug resistance in colonising bacteria in patients receiving selective decontamination of the gut have not been realised.
▪ The role of comparative biochemistry in parasites and its role in drug resistance - species differences in tubulin - E Lacey.
▪ As a result, drug resistance flourished in the poorer boroughs.
▪ An important consideration is that multiple drug resistance has rendered many low-cost drugs useless for this purpose.
▪ There is rising drug resistance for major pathogens at the same time as new pathogens continue to appear.
fighter
▪ Soldiers, spies, resistance fighters, protesters.
▪ Most of the younger resistance fighters lived with other families who treated them like their sons.
gene
▪ Some can hop from host to host, carrying resistance genes as they go.
▪ The solid black box represents the ble resistance gene.
▪ The Murray Collection had plenty of plasmids, but no resistance genes at all.
insulin
▪ The increase in the serum insulin concentration after steroid treatment may reflect increased energy intake or induction of insulin resistance.
▪ This is the first treatment designed to specifically target insulin resistance, which is a precursor to diabetes.
▪ Challenging the orthodoxy of insulin resistance.
▪ In a vicious cycle, weight gain increases insulin resistance increases weight gain.
▪ This concept of selective insulin resistance is not new and has been well demonstrated in animal models.
▪ All that concentrated sugar can be dangerous for a person who has insulin resistance, and is at risk for diabetes.
▪ And for about 25 percent of people, weight gain increases insulin resistance, and can lead to diabetes.
▪ In most cases, the insulin resistance is due to obesity, especially the accumulation of too much fat within the abdomen.
load
▪ Consider their response to a steady sinusoidal input signal when a load resistance R L is connected across the output terminals.
▪ The current consumption of the stage will be fixed by the load resistance to which the collector is connected.
movement
▪ The resistance movement dismissed the allegations.
▪ Grandfather wanted to leave for Manchuria and join the resistance movement.
▪ These outbreaks were typically spontaneous and unpremeditated; there is no evidence of a football resistance movement in action.
▪ I know he and Alan are thick in the draft resistance movement.
▪ Slowly an underground resistance movement grew, catering for discriminating customers.
▪ Meanwhile, the resistance movement settled down to an in-and-out-of-all routine relieved by austerity on the farm.
▪ Was this man leading a resistance movement against the Dark Power?
▪ The Romantics, like each of the other resistance movements, partook of that ecospiritual sensibility in a particular way.
water
▪ Naturally the water resistance was less, but modern tanning processes have improved leathers considerably.
▪ Zipped fly. Water resistance: they stayed comfortable in a light drizzle, but wind-driven showers quickly penetrated the fabric.
▪ The boots also showed high water resistance.
▪ No fly. Water resistance: held off light showers well, though steady rain will penetrate.
▪ Double thickness seat and knee panels. Water resistance: water penetrates readily, but the trousers coped well with light drizzle.
wind
▪ If you want to lower the wind resistance on a car body how low do you want to get it?
▪ A car that squats low meets less wind resistance.
▪ It behaves as a solid body of a particular mass and wind resistance ought to behave.
▪ He says that because of the seated position the rider has less wind resistance and more leg power.
▪ However, the extra wind resistance created by the panels means that the construction must be fairly robust.
■ VERB
change
▪ Along with advances were false starts, successful resistance to change, failures and reversals.
▪ All fully partake of the sacred; and this is what gives them their perennial resistance to change.
▪ Mitchell shows how the tribal politics of Northern Ireland create both resistance to change and a network of matching relationships.
▪ Chapter 2 helps you avoid the mistake of equating hesitation and anxiety with determined resistance to change.
▪ What I now faced was a small town with a strongly macho bias and an inbuilt resistance to change.
▪ Official inertia and resistance to change have at times seemed to spring from a sense of hopelessness.
▪ The problems of employee resistance to change were discussed in the earlier chapter on conflict, stress and change.
▪ Despite recent media attention, Edith Morgan finds continued resistance to change and an urgent need for positive measures.
develop
▪ That is just a want. 7 Develop sales resistance.
▪ Insects gradually developed resistance to most of the major pesticides introduced in the years since.
▪ This should help slow the rate at which bacteria develop antibiotic resistance.
▪ But they began to develop resistance to the insecticide.
▪ And many pests have developed resistance to the most commonly used pesticides.
▪ Diseases are rapidly developing resistances to current antibiotics.
▪ More often than not, the parasite develops a resistance to drugs and suitable alternatives are not easy to find.
▪ Both the bugs also can develop resistance independently when a person is repeatedly subjected to antibiotics.
encounter
▪ In recent months, Musharraf has narrowed the focus of his sweeping reform agenda as it encountered resistance from various interest groups.
▪ But with every initiative, they encountered an undercurrent of resistance.
▪ Her hands encountered no resistance, but found no way through the fog.
▪ But his plan encountered resistance as soon as he got home.
▪ Measures to prevent the competitive liberalization of consumer credit will encounter the heaviest resistance.
▪ In attempting to implement the new policy via decree, Gordon had encountered strong patient resistance.
increase
▪ Any extra load on the tail will help to increase its resistance to moving sideways and so help prevent a serious swing.
▪ And for about 25 percent of people, weight gain increases insulin resistance, and can lead to diabetes.
▪ This may, however, worsen hypertension by increasing the peripheral vascular resistance.
▪ In combination they increase resistance twentyfold.
lead
▪ Probably only an opposition candidate who was himself a nationalist should have led the final resistance.
▪ But Hashimoto has also led resistance to economic changes and concessions urged by the Clinton administration.
▪ Was this man leading a resistance movement against the Dark Power?
▪ They will be largely disregarded, or even lead to organized resistance.
▪ In general it leads to low level resistance.
▪ Their view is that this will lead to clinical resistance and ultimately to a failure to implement.
meet
▪ The army said the attackers met considerable resistance.
▪ The Summer plan met with annual resistance from all four of us.
▪ These conditions were expected to meet stiff resistance in the Legislative Assembly.
▪ However tame, these charismatic approaches still met severe resistance from the more cautious leadership of the established denominations.
▪ State law could not provide discipline because it met resistance from consciences.
▪ Legislatures are, of course, dominated by lawyers, and the attempt to limit settlements meets stiff legislative resistance.
▪ Then she met his eyes and resistance collapsed.
offer
▪ It offered no resistance and Urquhart was almost thrown off balance when it slipped free.
▪ He offered no resistance and made no final statement, Kindel said.
▪ The animals here are at the command of mankind and offer no resistance to their own exploitation.
▪ Hoard and Graham plowed downfield, with the Raiders offering little resistance.
▪ She had remained quiet in his grasp, offering no active resistance, aware that it would be useless.
▪ The demonstrators offered no resistance and none were physically removed from the site.
▪ However, Wainwright offered stubborn resistance, and responded with some hard hitting from the baseline to level the score at 6-6.
▪ She took the wastebin and the book from his hands, and he could offer her no resistance.
overcome
▪ At the beginning of each new paragraph she must summon her strength to overcome enormous resistances.
▪ Ideas need to be tested by their ability, in combination with events, to overcome inertia and resistance.
▪ The head alone can not overcome resistances and antagonisms which lie outside school.
▪ It was ridiculous, but somehow she had never overcome a resistance to working with children.
▪ Similarly a sense of competition will often overcome the resistance.
▪ The first two chapters describe activities which will help overcome problems such as learner resistance.
▪ Work is done by a system when the system exerts a force to overcome resistance.
▪ Handling by kidney squeeze overcame any further resistance so that it was then possible to secure the model in the Pavlov stock.
provide
▪ It replaces arms that provide a simple resistance ratio, with much advantage.
▪ And so, when the enemy charged, we immediately yielded and provided no resistance.
▪ This also provides some resistance to heat loss.
▪ It provides the main resistance to the sideways forces of the sail. 2.
▪ Marbletex smooth contains a tough flexible resin to provide weather resistance.
▪ By sailing the board at an angle the leeward rail digs in providing more sideways resistance.
▪ Reeve provided the only resistance until he was run out.
▪ Together the bladder and the nylon layer provided the chief resistance to pressure difference.
put
▪ But Manu does not seem to care about being raped, and puts up no resistance.
▪ The rebels have put up fierce resistance with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.
▪ Vincent agreed, too low-spirited to put up any resistance.
▪ And Fiordiligi puts up more resistance than her sister Dorabella, and her brilliant coloratura arias reflect her emotional torment.
▪ Kulti, 21, put up a little more resistance in the second set, but to no avail.
show
▪ The boots also showed high water resistance.
▪ Such factors could have hurt the results in the study that showed cross- resistance.
▪ The Trespa TopLab has shown resistance to almost all concentrated acids, solvents, non-abrasive industrial cleaning agents and dyestuffs.
▪ She showed resistance to harsh discipline and a vindictiveness over any prohibitions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
put up a fight/struggle/resistance
▪ By then I realized it was all too late anyway so I didn't put up a fight.
▪ Had he, perhaps, put up a fight?
▪ I bet you did that last night. - Did she put up a fight, then?
▪ I start running, but my body puts up a fight.
▪ Instead of dragging everything into the open and putting up a fight, I held on in silence.
▪ Not only relieved by beating Dallas, but yes, this team can put up a fight.
▪ The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight.
stubborn resistance/refusal/determination etc
▪ After two-and-a-half years of stubborn resistance, the Republic collapsed rapidly during the first three months of 1939.
▪ As the family kept vigil, the children saw at close quarters the stubborn determination of their stepmother.
▪ However, Wainwright offered stubborn resistance, and responded with some hard hitting from the baseline to level the score at 6-6.
▪ Perhaps it was her stubborn refusal to see her family broken up that made Mrs Breen appealing to Farnham.
▪ There was no cheering on the part of the men, but a stubborn determination to obey orders and do their duty.
▪ What accounted for this stubborn resistance of nationalities to the predicted assimilation?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Any policy that creates unemployment is likely to meet with strong resistance.
▪ She became one of the symbols of resistance both at home and abroad.
▪ There has been a lot of resistance to tax increases, even those designed to benefit education.
▪ Vitamins can build up your resistance to colds and flu.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Almost immediately, however, a fierce nationalist resistance erupted directed by a fiery prophet in the hills of Galilee.
▪ At the same time he was capable of strong resistance to conformity.
▪ Because unlike the marmots, the rats had no resistance to the disease that the fleas carried.
▪ But there has also been a remarkable resistance.
▪ In most cases, the insulin resistance is due to obesity, especially the accumulation of too much fat within the abdomen.
▪ Middle-class resistance is therefore the greatest threat to the Republicans' tax-reforming efforts.
▪ The first line of plant resistance is the surface skin layer, the epidermis, like your own skin.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resistance

Resistance \Re*sist"ance\ (-ans), n. [F. r['e]sistance, LL. resistentia, fr. resistens, -entis, p. pr. See Resist.]

  1. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

    When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces.
    --1. Macc. xi. 38.

  2. (Physics) The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.

  3. A means or method of resisting; that which resists.

    Unfold to us some warlike resistance.
    --Shak.

  4. (Elec.) A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.

    Resistance box (Elec.), a rheostat consisting of a box or case containing a number of resistance coils of standard values so arranged that they can be combined in various ways to afford more or less resistance.

    Resistance coil (Elec.), a coil of wire introduced into an electric circuit to increase the resistance.

    Solid of least resistance (Mech.), a solid of such a form as to experience, in moving in a fluid, less resistance than any other solid having the same base, height, and volume.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resistance

mid-14c., from Old French resistance, earlier resistence, from Late Latin resistentia, from present participle stem of Latin resistere "make a stand against, oppose" (see resist). Meaning "organized covert opposition to an occupying or ruling power" [OED] is from 1939. Electromagnetic sense is from 1860. Path of least resistance is from 1825, originally a term in science and engineering.

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Wiktionary
resistance

n. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

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WordNet
resistance

  1. n. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead" [syn: opposition]

  2. any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

  3. a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms [syn: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, resistivity, ohmic resistance]

  4. the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the enemy offered little resistance"

  5. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease [syn: immunity]

  6. a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force [syn: underground]

  7. the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

  8. (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

  9. an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current [syn: resistor]

  10. group action in opposition to those in power

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Wikipedia
Resistance

Resistance may refer to:

Resistance (socialist youth organisation)

Resistance is an Australian Revolutionary Socialist youth organisation with its national headquarters in Sydney. Resistance is an independent affiliate of the Socialist Alliance with a strong historical relationship with the Democratic Socialist Perspective, which dissolved into the Socialist Alliance in 2010.

Resistance organises under the slogan "When injustice becomes law - Resistance becomes duty". Membership is open to everyone under 26 who is living in Australia and broadly agrees with the aims of Resistance. Resistance is made up of young workers, unemployed, students, and other young people involved in the environmental movement, the women's movement, the queer rights movement, anti-racist campaigns, and solidarity campaigns with struggles overseas. It argues that issues these movements face are products of the capitalist system, and that a democratic socialist system is required to replace it. Resistance organises on campus, at schools, and in workplace and youth trade union campaigns.

There are Resistance branches in Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Wollongong which operate out of the activist centre in each city.

Resistance held its 39th national conference in Wollongong, 24–26 April 2010. The organisation's 40th national conference was held in Sydney in 2011. In 2012, Resistance held its 41st national conference in Adelaide, 20–22 July. Conference participants joined local union activists in a protest at Coles in solidarity with striking transport workers.

Resistance (V franchise)

This is a list of the known members of the Resistance, a fictional worldwide movement consisting of a large number of groups dedicated to fighting the Visitors in the V science fiction franchise.

Resistance (YBNP)

Resistance (formerly Young BNP, Youth BNP, YBNP) is the youth section of the far-right British National Party (BNP). In 2010 it was named BNP Crusaders but in 2011 it changed its name to "Resistance". The group falls under the arm of the British Nationalist Youth Movement with other groups such as BNP Students. The YBNP claimed to be a civil rights movement and student pressure group for indigenous British students from 6th form onwards.

Resistance (Alove for Enemies album)

Resistance is an album from Christian hardcore band, Alove for Enemies' on Facedown Records album. The album was produced and engineered by Dean Baltulonis.

Resistance (Star Trek: Voyager)

"Resistance" is the 28th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, and the 12th episode in the second season.

Resistance (EP)

Resistance is the first EP or mini-album (second overall release) by Mika Nakashima, though the title track later appears on her Love album. This mini-album reached #1 on the Oricon charts and charted for six weeks.

"Resistance" was used as the Meiji confectionery CM song, and "Heaven on Earth" (EP Version) was used as Nakashima's first Kanebo Kate CM song.

This EP or mini-album sold nearly all of its 200,000 copies. However, the mini-album was also released in Hong Kong and Korea.

Resistance (Battlestar Galactica)

"Resistance" is the fourth episode of the second season of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. It aired originally on the Sci Fi Channel on August 5, 2005.

In the episode, Marines fire on civilians following Colonel Saul Tigh's declaration of martial law. President Laura Roslin and Lee "Apollo" Adama escape Galactica, Commander William Adama recovers, and Specialist Cally kills Galactica-Boomer. On Caprica, Starbuck and Helo join a human resistance group led by Sam Anders.

Resistance (Burning Spear album)

Resistance is a studio album by Jamaican reggae singer Burning Spear.

It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Resistance, Spear's first release for Heartbeat, is regarded as one of Burning Spear's most solid albums, and reflects the atmospheric sound that defined Spear in the early eighties. This sound is also reflected in the albums Fittest of the Fittest and Farover, both of which were released on EMI. Burning Spear would venture into more modern, electric driven rhythms on his follow-up release People of the World, released on Slash Records.

Resistance (psychoanalysis)

Resistance, in the context of the field of psychoanalysis, refers to oppositional behavior when an individual's unconscious defenses of the ego are threatened by an external source. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalytic theory, developed his concept of resistance as he worked with patients who suddenly developed uncooperative behaviors during sessions of talk therapy. He reasoned that an individual that is suffering from a psychological affliction, which Sigmund Freud believed to be derived from the presence of suppressed illicit or unwanted thoughts, may inadvertently attempt to impede any attempt to confront a subconsciously perceived threat. This would be for the purpose of inhibiting the revelation of any repressed information from within the unconscious mind.

Resistance (military)

In military terminology, resistance or organised resistance refers to the ability of a military unit to continue to oppose an attack. Resistance ends when a unit surrenders, when all members of a unit are killed or captured, or when a unit disperses. The term is used in the phrase "organized resistance has ceased" to describe the end of a battle or campaign when no formal surrender occurs after a unit is defeated. The term also occurs in the phrase " pocket of resistance."

When a unit disperses, individuals who avoid capture may continue to resist the opposing force, e.g. by joining or forming a resistance movement, but this resistance is no longer "organized resistance" in the military sense.

Category:Military strategy

Resistance (2003 film)

Resistance is a 2003 Dutch/American World War II film, directed by Todd Komarnicki and starring Bill Paxton, Julia Ormond, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Bonnaire, and Victor Reinier. It was written by Komarnicki and Anita Shreve, based on Shreve's 1995 novel of the same name. Resistance, with a 16 million euro budget, was the most expensive Dutch production ever. Its theatrical run lasted for just one week.

Resistance (Star Trek)

Resistance is a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel set after Star Trek: Nemesis, aboard the USS Enterprise-E.

Resistance (Sheers novel)

Resistance is an alternative history novel by Welsh poet and author Owen Sheers. The plot centers around the inhabitants of a valley near Abergavenny in Wales in 1944–45, shortly after the failure of Operation Overlord and a successful German counter-invasion of Britain (see Operation Sea Lion). A group of German Wehrmacht soldiers stay there after the wives' husbands leave to serve in the covert British Resistance. The novel follows abandoned farmer's wife, Sarah Lewis and German commanding officer, Albrecht Wolfram as they form an unlikely relationship in spite of their backgrounds and political standings.

The novel was adapted for film in 2011.

The Hereford Mappa Mundi features prominently in the book.

Resistance (comics)

Resistance is a comic book limited series published by Wildstorm, based on the Resistance video game series. It is written by Mike Costa, with art by Ramón Pérez, with the prequel being written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, with pencils by C.P. Smith. The series is unrelated to and should not be confused with the earlier similarly named Wildstorm series The Resistance.

Resistance (Doctor Who audio)

Resistance is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.

Resistance (ecology)

In the context of ecological stability, resistance is the property of communities or populations to remain "essentially unchanged" when subject to disturbance. The inverse of resistance is sensitivity.

Resistance (2011 film)

Resistance is a 2011 Welsh film based on the novel of the same name by Owen Sheers.

After all the women in a remote valley on the Welsh border awaken to find their husbands have left to serve in the covert British Resistance, German occupiers arrive in this alternate-reality thriller set in 1944 where D-Day has failed and the United Kingdom has been invaded by Nazi Germany. Facing a harsh winter, the women and soldiers find they must co-operate with one another to survive.

Resistance (series)

Resistance is a series of first-person shooter and third-person shooter video games developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita video game consoles. The series takes place in an alternate history 1950's, in which an alien civilization known as the Chimera have invaded and conquered Earth, expanding their armies by capturing humans and transforming them into monster-like supersoldiers to fight for them. The player takes the role of one of the remaining human armed forces as they fight against the Chimera invasion. The series is noted for its use of both conventional and futuristic weaponry, reflecting Insomniac's previous work on the Ratchet & Clank series. All games in the series have all been rated M by the ESRB.

The characters and related events are described, below, using in-universe tone, so the fictional alien invasion during 1951 is treated as fact rather than fiction, likened to Orson Welles' broadcast of War of the Worlds.

Resistance (song)

"Resistance" is a song by English alternative rock band Muse, featured on their fifth studio album The Resistance. Written by vocalist, guitarist and pianist Matthew Bellamy, it was released as the third single from the album, following " Uprising" and " Undisclosed Desires", on 22 February 2010. The song makes several references to the novel " 1984", by George Orwell. The intro of the song is used in the trailer of the last episode of BBC show Silent Witness. In February 2010, Muse had uploaded a picture puzzle of "Resistance" artwork on their official Facebook page. The puzzle itself has a making of the "Resistance" track (which will be able to see it after solving the puzzle). This song was featured in a promo for an episode of Human Target. The song was also released as downloadable content for the music video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

Resistance (creativity)

Resistance is a concept created by American novelist Steven Pressfield that illustrates the universal force that he claims acts against human creativity. It was first described in his non-fiction book The War of Art and elaborated in the follow-up books Do The Work and Turning Pro, and in other essays. It is also a recurring theme in some of his fiction novels such as The Legend of Bagger Vance and The Virtues of War.

Resistance is described in a mythical fashion as a universal force that has one sole mission: to keep things as they are. Pressfield claims that Resistance does not have a personal vendetta against anyone, rather it is simply trying to accomplish its only mission. It is the force that will stop an individual's creative activity through any means necessary, whether it be rationalizing, inspiring fear and anxiety, emphasizing other distractions that require attention, raising the voice of an inner critic, and much more. It will use any tool to stop creation flowing from an individual, no matter what field the creation is in.

Pressfield goes on to claim that Resistance is the most dangerous element to one's life and dreams since its sole mission is to sabotage aspirations. He explains steps that human beings can take to overcome this force and keep it subdued so that they can create to their fullest potential, although Resistance is never fully gone.

Pressfield's concept of Resistance has been cited by authors such as Seth Godin, David M. Kelley and Tom Kelley, Eric Liu and the Lincoln Center Institute, Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter, and Gina Trapani.

Resistance (The Casualties album)

Resistance is the ninth studio album by New York street punk band The Casualties. It was released on September 25, 2012 on Season of Mist.

Resistance (1992 film)

Resistance is a 1992 Australian film set in the future in a military dictatorship.

Resistance (Winds of Plague album)

Resistance is the fourth studio album by American deathcore band Winds of Plague. The album has been produced by Will Putney who has worked with bands such as Thy Art Is Murder and Stray from the Path.

Resistance (1945 film)

Resistance is a 1945 French film directed by André Berthomieu based on a novel by Pierre Nord.

It was known in France as Peloton d'exécution.

It was one of the most popular films of the year in France with admissions of 3,072,622.

Resistance (TV series)

Resistance is a French television period drama series in six 52-minute episodes, first broadcast (as Résistance) on TF1 in France in May 2014 and on More4 in the UK in August 2015.

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Usage examples of "resistance".

They could never have got aboard in the face of resistance by the whole crew.

We also know that Abies disassociated himself from the White Aryan Resistance.

The resistance to acceleration must be tremendous, for the accelerometer needle registered zero.

Politicians are so apt to take the line of least resistance, and when thousands of votes of small landowners are to be won through the advocacy of an exemption, exemptions there will be.

The afrit has been dealt with, and much of the Resistance is dead too, it seems.

You see the amperage will be exceptionally high, and my batteries will have a large amount of reserve, with little internal resistance.

In such a position a man has not the courage to insult a woman, and, instead of answering, I set to work at once, without meeting even with that show of resistance which sharpens the appetite.

And, we might also ask, why the tangential resistance to the comet of Encke should not also produce a retrograde motion in the apsides of the orbit, instead of diminishing its period?

The 2d and 7th British Armoured Divisions, the 6th Australian Division, the New Zealand brigade group, soon to become a division, with perhaps one or two British brigades, comprising not more than 40,000 to 45,000 men, should suffice to overpower the remaining Italian resistance and to take Benghazi.

Because of possible differences in blood chemistry and in ignorance of his native bacteria, I depended almost wholly upon asepsis and his natural resistance.

While the continent of Europe and Africa yielded, without resistance, to the Barbarians, the British island, alone and unaided, maintained a long, a vigorous, though an unsuccessful, struggle, against the formidable pirates, who, almost at the same instant, assaulted the Northern, the Eastern, and the Southern coasts.

With their retreat thus cut off, with General Platt attacking from the north, harassed by patriots, machine-gunned and bombed from the air, the Italian resistance could not last long.

Despite my weariness I considered attempting resistance with the males, then dismissed the notion as being what was expected.

There are three key variables that will define this struggle, variables that act in the realm between the common and the singular, between the axiomatic of command and the self-identification of the subject, and between the production of subjectivity by power and the autonomous resistance of the subjects themselves.

In the north, the Kurdish Baban Dynasty emerged and organized Kurdish resistance.