Example collocations logo

Resist in sentence

862 examples of Resist in a sentence

Despite being a largely secular generation, they are using the narrative of jihad (the knife is a conspicuous Islamic State symbol) to defy their parents’ docility, challenge an incompetent Palestinian leadership, and, most of all, to resist the Israeli occupiers.
Germany is determined to resist any debt write-offs.
So the world community must resist unilateral efforts at separation because separatism today is much more dangerous than during the post-colonial era due to the twin evils of international terrorism and religious extremism.
Today, France, Belgium and others that suffered past German military aggression cannot resist an ultimatum posed by an institution almost as powerful as the old Wehrmacht: the Bundesbank.
Its leaders know that subsidiarity is vital for the EU’s long-term legitimacy and stability; and yet their short-term desire to drive the agenda toward ever more standardization and harmonization seems too strong to resist.
Russia’s rulers appear to live by the credo, “I resist America, therefore I am great.”
Macron’s economic ideas resist easy characterization.
But, beyond slogans, there is an underlying fault line between those who have the cultural capacity to embrace change and those who resist it by adhering to traditional ideas about how one's life and, by extension, society, should be organized.
Though the lack of such debt mutualization has caused weaker sovereigns to resist ESBies, while stronger sovereigns contend that ESBies still demand excessive risk-sharing, this solution could gain traction in the event of another crisis.
Poorer emerging-market countries would resist such a move, arguing that their citizens should not have to foot the bill for fiscal profligacy in much wealthier countries.
Moralities that resist this logic are branded “obstacles to progress.”
By participating actively in politics, basing their electoral choices on rational self-interest, and developing the sense of moderation needed to resist dictatorship, the middle class promotes democratic progress.
Memory had to be built, take hold, and resist the quicksand of banalization and denial.
Could this be why men who in the past could take time-delayed steps to conduct affairs behind closed doors now can’t resist the impulse to send a self-incriminating text message?
For example, economists are beginning to resist the inclination to rely on too many simplifying assumptions that facilitate modeling but are removed from reality.
The strategy needed to resist Putin’s efforts to expand Russia’s influence beyond its borders – and to induce change within them – resembles nothing so much as the “containment” doctrine that guided Western policy for the four decades of the Cold War.
It remains to be seen whether the Fed will resist the temptation of negative interest rates.
Indeed, in his speech, Cameron could not resist a passing shot at the European Court of Justice.
World leaders must resist the pressure of short-term political tribalism and confront the geopolitical and economic challenges ahead.
Determined to carry on as they always have, no matter what, the governors turn a deaf ear to the IMF and resist instituting fiscal reforms.
All of this implies that Asian governments will need to play a far greater role than officials in Europe or America in managing both the macro-economy and personal consumption choices, which will require very sensitive political choices regarding individual rights, as well as policies that powerful business interests – many of them Western – will resist.
Rampant corruption, rising social unrest, and the inability to resist modern Western powers ultimately caused the dynasty, and the world’s longest-lasting bureaucracy, to crumble in 1912.
Little doubt exists that the re-entry of the Middle Kingdom on the world stage is having great repercussions, nor that an increasing self-confident China will resist pressures to adopt Western values.
Meanwhile, governments in both countries could not resist increasing public spending.
More and more parties will resist writing down some debt in favor of trying to seize whatever assets they can.
The Syrian military and government-backed militias are strong and will resist fiercely.
Those who resist feminizing the workforce might argue that doing so would mean fewer children – and thus a new demographic complication.
And, though that nationalism may yet be directed against Ukraine’s Russians, Poles, and Jews, as it was in the past, the rest of the movement would resist such a turn (which may well explain why it has not happened).
Still, it is human nature to resist change, and many prospective buyers remain hesitant.
Because Europe and Japan are Iran’s major trading partners, instinct, inclination, and interests lead them to resist isolating Iran as the US urges.
BackNext