Resist in sentence

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It's going to understand your motivations and maybe help you resist them, if appropriate.

There were factors pushing these two in one direction, but through tailored mentorship and opportunities, they were able to reflect on their circumstances and resist negative influences.

In this barren world, Montag learns how difficult it is to resist when there's nothing left to hold on to.

I don't know you could possibly resist doing that.

So that means she didn't resist.

It provided a natural mechanism to resist the spread of future fires across the landscape.

It's going to create already-burned patches on the landscape that will resist the flow of future fires.

Now, if authoritarianism is using overt fear to terrorize us, we'll all be scared, but we'll know it, we'll hate it and we'll resist it.

And these gave people the tools to think about how they could build a capsule that could resist the vacuum of space.

I am just one of millions of people who have been told that in order to fulfill my dreams, in order to contribute my talents to the world I have to resist the truth of who I am.

So it's going to be modular, it's going to be buoyant, it's going to be designed to resist a tropical storm.

We resist change.

And we resist change in spite of the fact that change is perhaps the only constant in our lives.

She learned how to contact intelligence networks, pick a lock, resist interrogation and fire a gun.

I couldn't resist, and I got a nasty email from some environmental group saying, "This is too serious and solemn to make fun of.

Are you going to be able to resist that if it doesn't have any overt side effects?

And they are very difficult to resist, because thinking of all our unfinished tasks feels urgent.

They resist the temptation.

Well, the average American is going to resist the moral exercise of putting themselves in that person's head and is going to resist the idea that they have much in common with that person.

You know, they'll resist that comparison and that's natural, that's human.

99.9 percent of them resist being inducted into prostitution.

And we have to resist to the changes.

It's so big, in fact, that sometimes people feel the need to resist the scientific evidence that emotions are built and not built in.

Well, you could resist the temptation to announce your goal.

So don't search for one, don't wait for one, just accept the one you were offered or make up one yourself and then put the question to rest, because you need that closure to resist the addiction.

Otherwise, television actors are given the chance to become film stars, and successfully, resist the temptation.

I like CKY and Viva La Bam, so I couldn't resist this when I saw it for £1.99 in Gamestation.

When a man resist her charming attentions, she decides to do everything to destroy him.

Fairly appalling enterprise suggests Welsh to be an infantile artist, helplessly drawn to the violent milieu he knows best, but unable to resist vacuous elaborations rooted in banal fantasy.

Two redeeming qualities of this film were the cinemaphotography and a storyline that was hard to resist.

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