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Initially, I supported France, because I like Chelsea’s Nicolas Anelka, though as an African woman I also could not resist the dream of chanting with joy those times when an African team won.
But is this a reason to resist all change?
The images from these victories, featuring women, are an antidote to ISIS’s poisonous propaganda, and they encourage more women to resist the group’s ideological dictates.
And lest we forget, when Xi came to power in March 2013, some at the top of the party tried to resist the changes he was bringing.
But, having gone too far in deregulating markets, we must resist a natural tendency to overcompensate.
The next step is for the cell that reproduces a virus, whether useless or harmful, to develop some way to resist it.
Indeed, the Democratic plan (if it can be called one) ignores Iran’s ongoing subversion of Iraq’s state institutions, which will continue unless and until they become strong enough to resist such machinations.
Crucially, international organizations must build up the capacity to resist governments’ efforts to protect their underperforming nationals.
Instead of viewing these changes as a threat, and trying to resist them, developing economies should be getting ahead of them, by embracing disruptive innovations.
China’s increased financial power may have increased its ability to resist American entreaties, but despite dire predictions, its creditor role has not been sufficient to compel the US to change its policies.
So we will resist the temptation of revenge and retribution.
Most of these new crop varieties are designed to resist herbicides, so that farmers can adopt more environmentally friendly, no-till cultivation practices, and many have also been engineered to resist pests and diseases that ravage crops.
But if they do not agree on what to do, they should resist the temptation to paper over their differences.
As a rule, they serve the interests of powerful and well-organized special interest groups that are likely to resist any change.
So, as tempting as such a relationship may be, the US ought to resist it.
Advanced countries are certain to resist any new commitments.
Existing high-cost producers, especially entrenched monopolists, resist.
Just as with the early industrialists, moreover, teacher unions in many countries have enough political clout to resist reforms that erode their monopoly power.
Even ordinary citizens, despite largely recognizing that the system is dysfunctional, often resist change, for fear of losing whatever they do have.
As funding problems recur in the recession-hit economies, governments may resist “bailing in” and the associated losses.
Given that governments have many other programs to support – and that people resist higher taxes – finding the money to pay for such an effort becomes increasingly difficult.
Iran’s citizens – and all people longing to resist a tyrannical government or to protest in an established democracy – should bear that lesson in mind.
We must therefore make an effort to engage with opinions that are different from our own and resist algorithmic channeling to avoid difference.
Meanwhile, China is intervening massively to resist appreciation of the renminbi and thus maintain its export performance.
They have little choice but to resist, and their strength should not be underestimated.
And he will have to resist those of his supporters who, in the heady glow of victory, would have him be both demiurge and thaumaturge.
The end of Communism removed one important reason: the Soviet Union’s expansionist thrust and the Western democracies’ determination to resist it.
In fact, Western political and economic structures are, in some ways, specifically designed to resist deep and rapid change, if only to prevent temporary and reversible fluctuations from having an undue influence on underlying systems.
Even if we wanted to reject what was force-fed in chants or poems like "Che Comandante," it was hard to resist the charm and passion that came from his letters and diaries.
Under the second scenario, China’s leaders fail to rein in credit growth, mainly because highly leveraged local governments, well-connected real-estate developers, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) successfully resist policies that would cut off their access to financing and force them into insolvency.
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