Example collocations logo

Resisted in sentence

349 examples of Resisted in a sentence

Sex, which was initially foisted upon a woman who resisted ferociously, effects a transformation.
It all finishes with not so subtle pathos (which I resisted) which highlights the unrelenting pain of life.
This movie generated so much buzz when it came out that I initially resisted seeing it.
Ahh Grace's line from earlier, "only blue tomorrows," from the movie script as she resisted the prospects of having an affair.
She did whatever Justin (The Stranger) asked him to do, never resisted.
In addition to that, I enjoyed: 1) the timing--the movie consists of three shorts and I appreciate the order in which the three are presented; 2) sense of humor--the second short is quite charming and I thought well written from a child's point of view--it avoids being an adult pretending to be a child; 3) long dance scenes--there must be several three minute scenes with no editing cuts (the music is so strong that whenever I hear a piece by Faure, if it's not the piece in this one scene it reminds me of it, that I must stop a few seconds because the memory is so alive); 4) the deep exploration of "what is right" --I not only appreciate the presentation of the two sides of every decision presented in all of the shorts, but also that a quick Hollywood solution is resisted; and finally 5) a young Kirk Douglas--which is the old fashioned manly-man.
As with "Antz," released earlier this year, DreamWorks has successfully resisted the temptation to populate this film with characters that can be turned into further revenue through toy sales.
I love science-fiction, and will watch almost anything in the genre (although so far have resisted seeing Battlefield Earth).
As a result, I was able to give, for the first time in English, a comprehensive account of China’s wartime experience that combined the stories of the Nationalists and Communists who resisted the Japanese, as well as those of Japan’s local collaborators.
Fully aware of what happened some four decades earlier when the US and UN forces expanded their strategic objective in Korea and tried to unify the peninsula by force, Bush resisted pressures to expand the war’s aims.
So far, the economies belonging to the World Trade Organization have resisted the kind of widespread protectionism that would make a bad situation much worse.
Not surprisingly, such transfers were strongly resisted.
Many Europeans tried to argue in recent years that monetary policy should also take asset-price developments into account, whereas American policymakers and academics largely resisted this approach.
If Europe’s political center is widely perceived to be arbitrary and overweening, its authority will be rejected and resisted.
Nothing, indeed, resisted the psychoanalytic exegesis.
Before 2007, there was little political interest in tougher global standards, and individual countries resisted the idea that an international body might interfere in their sovereign right to oversee an unsound banking system.
Its ten divisions, with at least 100,000 men, are better trained and armed than the regular army, which is now weaker than in the first Gulf War of 1991, when it scarcely resisted before surrendering.
So far, Western democracies have largely resisted the siren song of xenophobia, and remained broadly faithful to liberal values.
The US resisted what it saw as an effort to limit American capabilities, and continues to regard a broad treaty as unverifiable and deceptive.
That is why former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who made social investment in Arab communities a national priority, resisted making the passage of the Oslo Accords dependent on Arab parliamentary support.
But even for them, the concept was only an assumption; they never managed to explain why wages and interest rates so often resisted the pressures of supply and demand.
Failure at Cancun would confirm the fears of those who resisted a new round of trade negotiations.
He has also kept a safe distance from Africa’s political failures, notably in Zimbabwe, where he has resisted calls to assist in the removal of Robert Mugabe.
Likewise, in terms of political values, the US has resisted agreements that could legitimize authoritarian governments’ censorship of the Internet – for example, by the “great firewall of China.”
In other words, achieving a lasting peace deal will require compromises from both sides – the kind of compromises that Hamas has long resisted.
Reviving Islam’s EnlightenmentSEATTLE – In 1877, the great French novelist Victor Hugo wrote, “Invading armies can be resisted; invading ideas cannot be.”
When Estonia resisted, Russia imposed sanctions and cut off gas supplies.
Estonia demonstrated – at independence and again during the recent crisis over the movement of a Soviet-era memorial – that with determination and strong support, Russian pressure can be resisted.
That crossroads exposed a deep cleavage between the young, self-confident Israeli-born generals, who were spiteful of the older generation’s “submissive” attitude, and the Diaspora-born politicians who, haunted by Holocaust memories and existentially fearful of international isolation, resisted making a break with the old politics of diplomatic Zionism.
The country has sensibly resisted pressure from the European Commission to take more aggressive steps to reduce its deficit, which, at 5.9% of GDP, was the European Union’s third highest last year.
BackNext