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Resist in sentence

862 examples of Resist in a sentence

If the inspector did come along, it would be amazing if they were able to resist the bribe.
I did resist the temptation to skip to the back, where the shorter and more clearly mystical chapters are.
I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance.
So Europe is not just an example now to emulate; it's an enemy to fight and to resist.
The other reason that it's difficult to resist temptation is because it's an unequal battle between the present self and the future self.
And if you pick up one of those magazines, it's hard to resist, isn't it?
Now, on your way to change the world, people are going to resist.
So by planting in there the way they're going to resist between what is and what can be, is actually going to draw them towards your idea quicker than should you not do that.
The way you normally build a system right now is you have a tube stack that has to be launched from the ground, and resist all kinds of aerodynamic forces.
If the wall around the erectile tissue wasn't there, if it wasn't reinforced in this way, the shape would change, but the inflated penis would not resist bending, and erection simply wouldn't work.
But will you be able to resist the temptation to track your fellow man?
Or will you be able to resist the temptation to turn on a GPS spoofer or a Wave Bubble to protect your own privacy?
That means we have to resist the neurobiological drive, which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves, and it means we have to seek out people with different backgrounds, different disciplines, different ways of thinking and different experience, and find ways to engage with them.
But still, I'm a producer, and the lure of a site-specific theater project was more than I could resist.
This is why it's so difficult to resist the temptations of Satan, and why it is also difficult to resist the temptations of fascism.
There is an entertainment software industry which is extremely deft at coming up with appealing products that you can't resist.
Most people, when this subject is brought up, get tense and resist it: "Art doesn't feed me, and right now I'm busy.
Why do people instantly resist the idea of associating themselves with art?
I have never, ever forgotten the words of my grandmother who died in her exile: "Son, resist Gaddafi.
So he's walking out and walking out and walking out and he just can't resist.
In Europe, for example, they evolved to resist the straight-tusked elephant, elephas antiquus, which was a great beast.
But why is it that some of our common shrubs have spines which seem to be over-engineered to resist browsing by deer?
Perhaps because they evolved to resist browsing by rhinoceros.
In fact, not only could the rat initiate and sustain locomotion on the ground, they could even adjust leg movement, for example, to resist gravity in order to climb a staircase.
I left almost all my graphs at home, but I couldn't resist throwing in just this one, because I'm a geek, and that's how I roll.
They adapt very simple rules, and the resulting complex behavior allows them to resist human encroachment into their natural habitat.
Grasshopper mice resist painful venom from scorpion prey through genetic changes in their nervous systems.
Parasites invite us to resist the allure of obvious stories.
Indeed, many hackers do not resist those temptations, and so they are responsible in one way or another to billions of dollars lost each year to fraud, malware or plain old identity theft, which is a serious issue.
Even if you're somebody who decides that you never want to, the fact that there are other people who are willing to and able to resist and be adversarial to those in power — dissidents and journalists and activists and a whole range of others — is something that brings us all collective good that we should want to preserve.
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