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But the US Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that states may not nullify or contravene federal law – a right some southern states claimed in the mid-twentieth century to resist school integration.
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For Western societies – weighed down by credits, contracts, and other obligations – conflict is extremely costly, so they tend to resist it, and even turn on leaders who suggest it.
If we rebel against humiliation, insult or enslavement as individuals; if we defend our individual human dignity and resist attacks that threaten it; we do -- indeed we must do -- precisely the same as a community that has established a state, because the state is, among other things, an instrument to protect our life together in freedom.
Other states tend to resist bids by any Asian power – be it Japan, China or India – to rise to the top of the pyramid.
If China makes a bid for regional hegemony, it will find it difficult to resist the structural constraints placed on it within this hierarchy.
Some governments and individuals are likely to resist these suggestions, believing that such intervention constitutes an unwarranted intrusion into Iran’s sovereignty.
No teenager in rebellion against the world or his parents seems able to resist Che’s alluring image.
They would most likely resist, and try to stay in their own bathtubs.
Despite the European Commission’s good intentions, the EU’s larger members continue to resist submitting to a common EU energy policy.
Despite being isolated and ostracized, Iran has managed to gain some strategic breathing room with the help of countries like China, Russia, India, Syria, and Venezuela, allowing it to resist Western pressure.
Millions of Europeans resist seeing Israel as a country fighting for its survival.
But this time, developing countries could not resist commenting on the hypocrisy of it all.
As Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush showed, Republicans can rarely resist the temptation to cut corporate, income, and other taxes, even when they have no way to make up for the lost revenue and no desire to cut spending.
Hard as it is to resist the seductive charm of a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, allies should not be acolytes.
The war in Algeria was, for de Gaulle, but another symptom of a dysfunctional state, an analysis that went back to his own experiences in 1940, when the French government proved unable to resist invasion by Hitler’s Germany.
We do know that when materials resist degradation, they may be present in the environment for long periods of time, and thus have a greater chance of interacting with the living environment.
It was so tempting for a minister or a senior technocrat to explain that consolidation had to start immediately, because the 90% threshold was approaching, that most of them did not resist it.
But this would surely change as its dynamic private sector, facing down the government’s protectionist instincts, lobbied for membership – a proposition that would become difficult to resist as the TAP’s influence spread.
But it is increasingly clear that ultra-easy monetary policy is impeding the necessary process of deleveraging, threatening the “independence” of central banks, raising asset prices (especially for bonds) to unsustainable levels, and encouraging governments to resist making needed policy changes.
Moreover, such fluctuations are amplified by borrowing in good years, so countries should resist foreign lenders who try to persuade them of the virtues of such capital flows.
This matters in part because cities with a clear ethos can better resist globalization’s homogenizing tendencies.
Thus, one should pay tribute to the resilience of Dutch Muslims as they resist the provocations of the right-wing politician Geert Wilders, who is bent on releasing a film that can only inflame public prejudice against Islam.
If she chooses Rouseff’s approach, she will first have to resist the temptation of perpetual re-election.
Little did they appreciate that American voters, having never actually supported spending cuts, would resist.
That is why the prospect of rising German labor costs, after a decade of stasis, is actually one of the few positive economic developments on the European scene – hardly something that the ECB should resist.
Whereas the bogey of inflation seems finally to have been laid to rest, another myth must still be challenged – that the Fed and other central banks should save their “bullets” for a rainy day and should therefore resist cutting rates.
Moreover, Congress will resist rolling back any of the long-standing economic sanctions against Cuba.
Many UN members, believing that power within the UN has been shifting from the General Assembly, resist giving up what they regard as its last vestige: control over the budget through the work of the Assembly’s Fifth Committee.
Many of the calls to resist further construction, residents must understand, are being made by special interests; indeed, they amount to a kind of rent seeking by homeowners seeking to boost their own homes’ resale value.
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