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The only visible counterweights are civil society’s democratic organizations and an independent press, whose freedoms have been drastically reduced, and a new political opposition that has yet to establish its credentials through a strategy of resistance.
There will be bitter resistance here, however, for the interests of strong political forces are at stake.
There have been mass protests and resistance from the old guard of the governing party, but the general public seems ready to accept austerity as long as it sees progress in correcting budgetary abuses – and there are plenty of abuses to allow progress.
The government has proposed judicial reforms to make it easier to prosecute corruption, but it is encountering heavy resistance from the old establishment.
But in many developing countries, the resistance that British suffragettes faced a century ago, rooted in misogyny, persists.
Unfortunately, this has led to problems of social equity and environmental sustainability, which require complex coordination of bureaucratic silos in order to overcome the resistance of powerful vested interests.
Last December 27, 20 armed police officers used extreme physical violence to arrest Hu Jia in front of his wife and their two-month-old baby, acting as if he could offer real resistance.
With such resistance to change, it is no wonder that so many political leaders try to lull their subjects to sleep, hoping that when everyone wakes up, it will all have proven a dream.
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The Sunni resistance – a guerilla and terrorist war that was well prepared in the last years of Saddam’s rule – will continue to try to subvert any semblance of order representing the current majority Shia-Kurdish coalition.
If you replace something with nothing, you have to expect significant political and social resistance.
Political resistance to structural reforms – especially from older incumbent workers – will be stronger in a low-output, high-unemployment economy, because it is worse to be laid off in such conditions.
Proceeding in this order will reduce the political resistance to change.
Attempts to enforce the rule have met unexpected resistance from teachers, who are obliged to rotate tasting duty: they object that they are at school to teach students, not to taste food.
There is widespread resistance to the idea that the chief function of modern states is to slot their peoples into a global market dominated by the imperatives of efficiency and cheapness, heedless of the damage to non-economic activities.
Those countries’ resistance to intervention, says Harvard’s Michael Ignatieff, “will become increasingly influential.”
The 61-year-old Liu, a former literary critic and high-profile champion of human rights and non-violent resistance, spent the last eight years of his life behind bars on trumped-up charges of “subversion.”
But both were relatively homogeneous societies with significant middle classes and no organized resistance to American occupation.
Assad’s overthrow would be a major strategic defeat for Iran, weakening the country’s international standing and dealing a heavy blow to the so-called “axis of resistance” – Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah.
The need to revive multilateralism is all the more important given that EU-US negotiations will likely be difficult and prolonged, owing especially to resistance from European and American regulators.
As a result, reform has come to seem illegitimate, which has strengthened resistance to it.
Indeed, through a processes known as Aplasmid transfer,” microbes can exchange biological innovations among themselves, including - most importantly and dangerously - resistance to antibiotics, which one species of microbes can pass on to another.
In some cases, the host’s immune system is even manipulated by one parasite in order to enhance the host's resistance to super-infection by rival, invading parasites.
(And, even as we celebrate recent successes, problems such as drug resistance pose new challenges.)
Moreover, their main qualities should be resistance – the ability to hold out – and the psychological resilience to deal successfully with an “intense” situation and to respond to it by exerting the best possible control.
But such an attitude seems warranted: Xu’s Tibet division is tasked with overseeing monastic institutions, inculcating “patriotic” norms among monks and nuns – through reeducation when necessary – and infiltrating the Tibetan resistance movement and Tibetan Buddhist monasteries on both sides of the Indo-Tibetan frontier.
When anyone – even Nelson Mandela, the heroic resistance fighter against apartheid who became South Africa’s first black president – publicly questioned Mbeki’s views, Mbeki’s supporters viciously denounced them.
Or would pushing forward under such circumstances create even more resistance?
Attempting to compel transfer payments would generate moral hazard on the part of the recipients and resistance from the donors, with the resulting increase in tensions possibly jeopardizing the integration that has been achieved so far.
Putin and his entourage “tightened the screws” on Russia’s people over the past decade, and faced almost no resistance to their claims to unchecked power.
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