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Left-wing revolutionaries were once a staple of campus life, and efforts to ban them would rightly have been
resisted.
European governments have
resisted
genuine opening of their national defense markets for a host of reasons, including an obsession with meeting national defense requirements, concerns over sovereignty, and a desire to protect jobs and local high-technology capabilities.
I am sure that this will be
resisted
on legal grounds.
That is why it is bound to be
resisted.
I have
resisted
strong public criticism until now, because I thought there was hope for both him and his government.
Banks that wreaked havoc on the global economy have
resisted
doing what needs to be done.
Bush’s subordinates authorized methods of interrogation that led to torture, and his administration adamantly
resisted
legislation that would ban its use.
For him, Australian came of age later, at Kokoda, often called Australia’s Thermopylae, when a small group of young soldiers
resisted
the advance of Japanese army divisions that seemed set to take Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea and threaten the Australian continent.
This is what Masuru Hayami, the former governor of the Bank of Japan, feared when he
resisted
calls for more monetary stimulus.
Before the FFP was launched in November 2010, Florida’s powerful tomato industry had long
resisted
increasing the per-bucket rate or signing on to codes of conduct to safeguard workers against abuses.
Of course, if all parts of a nation accept separation, creation of a new national state need not be
resisted
by the world community.
Indeed, like the Japanese during their period of rapid growth, the Chinese have, until recently,
resisted
internationalization of the renminbi.
The best we can hope for is that liberal democracies will muddle through this period of unease – that demagogic temptations will be resisted, and violent impulses contained.
For around 20 years, roughly from 1985 to 2005, the Bank
resisted
the well-proven use of targeted support for small landholders to enable impoverished subsistence farmers to improve yields and break out of poverty.
When those claims overlap with claims by other states, as most of them do, China must be prepared to resolve them, preferably by international adjudication or arbitration, which it has so far strongly resisted, or at the very least by genuine give-and-take negotiation.
There is a paradox here: while China’s central government is trying to provide national environmental leadership, local governments have often
resisted.
Had emerging economies
resisted
the temptation of excessive private-sector credit growth, raising interest rates in order to stabilize currencies would not pose a severe threat to economic performance.
It walked away from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2003;
resisted
serious negotiations within the framework of the Six-Party Talks established that year by the United States, China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan; tested nuclear explosive devices in 2006 and 2009 in breach of a global moratorium; conducted a series of increasingly provocative missile tests; ignored United Nations Security Council resolutions and sanctions; sank a South Korean navy ship and shelled one of its islands in 2010; and maintained a steady flow of belligerent rhetoric.
Turkey, a responsible regional power, has so far
resisted
being drawn into the Syrian quagmire, but its effects can be seen in the rising tensions between the country’s Sunni majority and the Shia Alevi sect.
There were also cases of extreme MDR-TB, soon called XDR-TB, which
resisted
even the back-up medicines.
Indeed, deregulation would require them to put their country’s long-term interests above their own short-term interests – a choice that they have so far
resisted.
What was remarkable was not that, in the end, most resigned themselves to segregation, but that many
resisted
the new divisions for so long.
No one accused President Dwight Eisenhower of isolationism when he accepted a stalemate in the Korean War, refused to intervene at Dien Bien Phu,
resisted
recommendations from senior military officers regarding islands near Taiwan, watched the Red Army invade Hungary, or refused to back allies in the Suez Canal crisis.
Such outrages must be resisted, before more people like Cavallo and Hausmann are threatened – and before the disease spreads to North America and Europe.
Since there is no guarantee that reforms will provide a more equitable future, unequal sacrifices now are
resisted.
Around the world, oil and gas companies have themselves to blame: too often, they have
resisted
calls for greater transparency.
The forces that are now pulling at the threads of the post-1945 international order must be
resisted.
Even though its fiscal and external accounts are strong, Germany has
resisted
calls for boosting its domestic demand further.
While revolutionary communism was
resisted
by resoluteness on security, it was ultimately defeated by a better idea: freedom.
Developing countries have generally
resisted
inclusion of labor standards in trade agreements for fear that advanced countries will abuse such provisions for protectionist purposes.
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