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Taking these developments a step further, the Precision Medicine Initiative, launched in the US last year, is pursuing innovative trials of targeted drugs for adult and pediatric cancers, introducing customized combination therapies, and honing its understanding of drug
resistance.
The burgeoning fishery and aquaculture sector is benefiting from species with better yields and greater
resistance
to disease and stress.
By broadening our understanding of commercially valuable traits, such as insect resistance, wood quality, growth rates, and adaptation to climate change, genomics has helped to improve the sustainability of tree breeding and forest management.
Kashyap continued his
resistance
offline, taking the almost unprecedented step of suing the review board – and winning.
During World War II, involved with the Resistance, he was arrested and interrogated.
The Roman Catholic Church, after a long period of fierce resistance, also has adapted successfully to pluralist competition, legitimating it theologically in the declarations on religious liberty that began with the Second Vatican Council.
On the contrary, we should expect agreement only on the path of least political resistance: avoidance of tough fiscal choices until the bond vigilantes eventually wake up, spike long rates, and force fiscal adjustment on the political system.
Similar demands were heard all over Europe, where the anti-Nazi or anti-fascist
resistance
was often led by leftists, or indeed Communists, and prewar conservatives were frequently tainted by collaboration with fascist regimes.
But even Charles de Gaulle, a
resistance
leader of the right, had to accept Communists in his first postwar government, and he agreed to nationalize industries and banks.
Belief in vampires in Eastern European societies served its own historical purposes: uniting communities and identifying outsiders, giving concrete form to death fears, explaining mysterious events, and, last but not least, providing a means of
resistance
to the encroachment of Western ideas and patterns of thought.
In Europe, by contrast, structural change faces
resistance.
Further eastward expansion of NATO, however, will be possible only against fierce Russian
resistance.
If Cameron returns as prime minister after the general election in 2015, he will face an uphill battle in renegotiating the terms of British EU membership, owing to
resistance
not only from his European partners, but also from his own Conservative Party, which is close to advocating British withdrawal.
So, again, why is there so much
resistance
to it in Germany?
This, truly, was a victory for the republic – a triumph of popular
resistance.
Some of these initiatives, particularly deregulation, will undoubtedly face
resistance
from bureaucrats concerned about losing their influence.
While their work encounters great
resistance
from traditionalist and fundamentalist circles (whose views are widely covered in mainstream Muslim and Western media), these contemporary reformers - and the questions they have raised - have had a big impact on a rising generation of Muslim intellectuals around the world.
Of course, listeners must strain to hear the voices of reformists amidst the din of those calling for
resistance
to the enemy and a return to the pure sources of Islam.
Why, then, has there been such strong political
resistance
to globalization in the twenty-first century?
But, while marginal deterrence is important, I believe the
resistance
of murderers to being captured, possibly at the expense of their own lives, is really indirect evidence that criminals do fear capital punishment.
Italy’s increasingly assertive
resistance
to German economic dogmas may not be surprising: The country has suffered from almost continuous recession since joining the euro.
The question is how he can overcome their
resistance
without rallying the Chinese people, whose political mobilization could endanger the one-party system.
Protests, or civil resistance, in the face of government force, rarely have immediate, tangible results.
This is especially true of violent resistance, which simply invites greater violence.
Today, the biggest risks to stable and prosperous societies – such as unabated climate change, overwhelming pandemics, and the rise of antimicrobial
resistance
– are global in nature, and therefore need to be addressed collectively.
And the US seems unwilling to make space for them, as evidenced by its
resistance
to the establishment of the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
So
resistance
to change is built into the system.
If not for US resistance, John Major and Francois Mitterrand would likely have handed Bosnia over to the Serbs in 1993.
After all, since fleeing to India, the Dalai Lama – Tibet’s rightful political and spiritual leader (though he ceded his political role to a democratically elected government in exile in 2011) – has been the public face of
resistance
to Chinese control of Tibet.
The biggest risk stemming from the Dalai Lama’s passing is violent
resistance
to Chinese repression in Tibet.
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