Resistance
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Not a particularly good WWII yarn, but worthwhile for Anthony Quinn's commanding performance as a bitter sheepherder who is asked by the French
Resistance
to smuggle scientist James Mason and family across the Pyrenees.
However, the piece de
resistance
for me was the song at the end - the acting, as well as the song, together with the reactions of the audience, make excellent viewing.
Opinions contrary to widely held perceptions are always met with
resistance.
I've been looking forward to see this movie, since I'm interested in the history of Japanese occupation, korean
resistance
and korean history in general.
Retired soldier Tommy Lee Jones learns his son, just back from Iraq, has gone AWOL, and he searches in vain for him, running up against
resistance
from both the Army and, at least initially, the local police.
Such an unfair distribution of wealth based on economic exploitation, social injustice and political exclusion has caused silent but persistent
resistance
by Chinese peasants.
I have seen many ebbs and flows, booms and busts, and though I fully recognize that international capital markets have become more institutional in character and demonstrate greater resistance, I cannot believe that the present boom will not be followed by a bust until history proves me wrong.
Improper use of these medicines fosters HIV
resistance
and provides little therapeutic value for patients.
For example, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Malaria Research Institute have discovered how
resistance
to the malaria parasite can spread in a mosquito population.
But coalition rule can also often mean governance of the lowest common denominator, as
resistance
by any of the government’s significant members to a policy can delay or even thwart it.
For many decades, under Mao Zedong, the only acceptable version of China’s wartime experience was that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spearheaded the
resistance
against the Japanese, honing its armies while preparing one of the world’s most significant social revolutions.
At the same time, greater cross-border collaboration, along with up-to-date information about emerging multidrug
resistance
in the GMS, became essential.
Then under the WHO’s Strategy for Malaria Elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion 2015-2030, the emphasis shifted from controlling drug
resistance
to pursuing total malaria elimination.
To that end, the GMS’s region-wide ban on the production and marketing of oral artemisinin-based monotherapies, which actually contribute to drug resistance, is to be commended, as is the strengthening of national supply chains to improve the availability of high-quality medicines.
Among his last messages to his supporters was “not to give up on democracy and peaceful resistance.”
The impossible deadlines, the always ambiguous information the president is fed, and the complex choices that he must make are too frequently bound to clash with political constraints and the
resistance
to change of both allies and foes.
Nor is it at all certain that the sacrifices required of a country already stretched beyond the limits of its financial capabilities, together with the
resistance
of world powers, will allow this to be accomplished even in a single presidential term.
It, too, failed to carry out health care and pension reforms even if
resistance
at that time came from different interest groups.
He predicted
resistance
from those whose privileges would disappear.
Widespread social
resistance
to creditors’ claims on debtors’ property for non-payment has meant that “foreclosure” has rarely been carried to extremes.
This means getting the Congress party fully on board and overcoming the
resistance
of career officials to new ways of thinking and acting.
To this end, he is seeking to build a new political elite to serve in a National Front government and help overcome
resistance
to the party’s agenda from France’s “deep state.”
Resistance
to reform could for a time be justified, so long as: 1 firms in the state sector retained a profitable position in a region's economy; 2. the mobility of state employees remained low; and 3, the non-state sector was not strong enough in both financial terms and entrepreneurial capability to take over the vast state sector.
Indeed, the same relationship between France and the UN that led to the country’s
resistance
to intervention in Iraq in 2003 has now pushed France to intervene in Libya in 2011.
The irrationality of such
resistance
is not likely to weaken it.
Yet, while a substantial share of Americans may support such a system, a single-payer program would face strong
resistance
from three powerful groups: the insurance industry, consumers who are happy with their current employer-paid plans, and Republicans in general.
While the ceasefire remains popular--albeit increasingly tenuous in light of recent events--few Palestinians wish to see the Palestinian Authority permanently break the back of the armed
resistance
forces.
I hope to encourage Chinese policymakers to make the fight against antimicrobial
resistance
a priority when China chairs the G-20 in 2016.
But fiscal expansion is likely to meet
resistance
from monetary policy, as the Fed resumes its “normalization” of interest rates.
One plausible scenario is that Putin achieves his optimal objective and Ukraine’s
resistance
crumbles.
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