Sentence examples for resisting from high-quality English sources.

• Stop resisting!”

• Darren, what’s your attitude to resisting handing power over?

• A useful analogy lies in the doubt-resisting character of the cogito.

• Most disturbing is that some are refusing to prosecute cases of resisting police.”

• If he refuses, we must resist by . . . by simply resisting.

• We will not stop resisting the hate, resisting the bigotry, resisting the racism.”

• This idea was revolutionary when Einstein proposed it, with many professional physicists (wrongfully) resisting it for decades.

• The government has purged what it calls “two-faced” Uighur teachers and officials suspected of secretly resisting the hard-line policies.

Use resisting in a sentence.

• According to one U.S. commander, the Afghans are kept from resisting the Taliban by an attitude “somewhere between apathy and misunderstanding.”

• The first kind of case occurs when a moving body with a given power for proceeding collides with another body that has a greater power for resisting.

• If a different American president were to try resisting Chinese aggression while defending universal values, that “alliance is there, waiting to be led.”

• In both China and the Soviet Union, vast Stalinist bureaucracies had smothered economic growth, with officials who wielded unchecked power resisting change that threatened their privileges.

• An alternative way of resisting this epistemic assumption is to accept a view according to which matters external to how things are with you subjectively can contribute to the justificatory status of your beliefs.

• Morrison has been emphasising that Australia will take a technological approach to emissions reduction, and the Coalition is thus far resisting pressure to sign up to a net zero commitment by mid-century despite being a signatory to the Paris agreement.

• The CRS have also been photographed allegedly using potentially-lethal rubber bullets to threaten refugees who are resisting the eviction on the roofs of their shelters, and volunteers say they have turned water cannon on refugees trying to fight a fire.

• But opposition to the pipeline is considerable, and is supported by environmental organizations and activists resisting pipelines such as the Dakota Access pipeline, and Keystone XL – a project that Joe Biden cancelled on his first day in the White House.

resisting sentence examples

• After years of resisting calls to take action against Donald Trump's social media accounts, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube moved swiftly to de-platform the president earlier this month after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC.

• Major Christopher Warnagiris, who's stationed at the Marine Corps base Quantico, has been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder; and obstruction of justice, among other charges.

• Although, according to Boynton Robinson’s account, Redoshi’s late husband Yawith – with whom she eventually established a loving relationship – had showed considerable ingenuity in resisting exploitation and ensuring he was at least paid properly for the cotton he produced.

• They were resisting what Father Walter Lini, later Vanuatu’s first prime minister, described as “nuclearism” – an amalgamation of “nuclear” and “colonialism” – in the Pacific island territories by the United States, Britain, and France with their nations’ permanently harmful nuclear weapons testing.