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My father helped those who resisted dictatorships in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and then it was the turn of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico.
All the way back into early philosophy and certainly throughout the history of neuroscience, this has been one mystery that has always resisted elucidation, has got major controversies.
When I resisted this idea of being surveilled by my ex-husband, he really didn't approve of this and threw me out of his house, along with my six-month-old son, Abdullah.
Thailand and Russia, however, have resisted harm reduction and have stringent laws which punish drug use.
For years, I had resisted medication, making many, many efforts to get off.
They resisted environmental improvement.
They resisted workplace improvement.
I resisted it.
Nearly no prisoner resisted without giving a testimony.
It is true that some people have made these arguments before, but we've made a difference by anticipating the arguments of our opponents and by leveraging powerful voices that a few years ago would probably have resisted change.
I resisted it for as many years as I could because as the only brown boy in the school, I already felt like a chocolate chip in rice pudding, and the idea of looking more different was not particularly appealing.
American Natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.
As France's main rival, Britain had resisted revolutionary ideas and retained its traditional units.
When my niece was four, she resisted getting dressed and rejected everything.
It is, because the Spanish language, in contrast to English, French or others, always strongly resisted writing words too differently to how we pronounce them.
However, the work itself resisted the very nature of a retrospective, and this is just some of the stuff that was in the show.
When the island failed to produce the gold Columbus was looking for, he began to label anyone who resisted his plundering and kidnapping as a Caribe.
Anyone who resisted the Mongols was resisting Tenggeri's will, and for this insubordination, had to die.
There were enormous differences between kids who resisted and kids who yielded, in many ways.
The kids who resisted scored 250 points higher on the SAT.
I didn't catch it in cinema though, and after seeing it on to tv I'm terribly happy I resisted buying it on video.
For those of us who tried to stand on the shoulders of the civil rights movement and fight the rule of privilege and power; who resisted the fascism of the Johnson/Nixon administrations; who now as veterans of civil wars fought the war in Vietnam every single day until finally the US beast died and fled; for all who said no in many different ways -- it's remarkable how unsuccessful we were.
I was tempted to leave in the middle of the movie, but I resisted.
For several weeks this DVD leaped off the shelf at me every time I went in the store - having seen Steve Carrell in a couple of films previously, I didn't want to smear my thought process of him - so I resisted and resisted, until finally I grabbed it up with a 'What the hell!' attitude!
But the film is also effective to show how the father resisted this dream because for him science was not the fabric of a true man, like mining or football.
I resisted seeing this movie and I understand why it was not a big hit in theatres.
First, it was shocking to see the French Resistance portrayed as a roguish band of buffoons headed by an equally idiotic and boisterous leader; a smack in the face to the brave, witty Maquis who courageously resisted the German occupation of their homeland.
The actor resisted the temptation to make his character campy, and so we have sympathy for him.
I resisted to see "Mommie Dearest" for years but last night I lost a bet and I was forced to sit through it.
The worst was when she made a big deal about not changing the ending, saying that Dodie Smith (the author) had been offered half a million dollars by book-of-the-month club to change it and she (the screenwriter) felt that if Smith resisted that much money it was important the ending stay the same.
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