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And the first mate wisely resists and doesn't untie Odysseus.
And you'll see that, unlike the cross helical model, this model resists extension and contraction and resists bending.
It's a social citadel; it's an impregnable fortress which resists any assault, any alternative.
This results in a syndrome that I like to call 'premature self-congratulation.' (Laughter) (Applause) There's another group, though, that actively resists gender equality, that sees gender equality as something that is detrimental to men.
And so the spongy soil not only resists erosion, but sets up a microbial universe that gives rise to a plurality of other organisms.
At these extreme high densities, the core actually resists collapse, and as a result, all of this infalling material bounces off the core.
One kid resists electric grandma.
Quinlin had found an ancient amulet in Southern China that would give an enormous power to him after the sacrifice of human souls, but one woman resists and he is destroyed.
Sherry resists this notion as absurd and is quite happy to relay news to her husband that she is indeed pregnant.
I suspect the reason why it has not been released on DVD by the Russians (here comes the spoiler) is that the Jewish intellectual (and not the tough Russian peasant) is the partisan who resists both threats and temptation, goes serenely to his death, and sets an heroic example for the villagers.
Pinky resists, but the lure of all that money is just too much for him.
That the film resists Mafia stereotypes whilst revelling in them makes it all the more successful.
Also disappointing is the science fiction angle which almost aggressively resists any good idea it has.
An illegal immigrant resists the social support system causing dire consequences for many.
Finally the challenge of a world that resists and refuses and tries to force you back into the pack, even with an untimely accident that forces you to get back into the pack for plain survival necessity, and even then Homer proved he had the guts to accept the challenge that was blocking for a while his own plans and dreams.
The mysterious killer is also there, he most definitely resists arrest & even though Grant repeatedly shoots him he kills Phil by biting his neck.
She resists everything except lies and hipocrisy.
The importance of the movie is in the way it resists explanation.
His human spirit resists the mind control of the evil Brother Blood.
It's got fuzzy, washed out sepia tinted photography that resists any attempt by the viewers' eyes to pull pleasure and satisfaction out of the film stock.
Rodriguez, who is angry both at white people, as well as blacks who don't try to rise above their station in life, at first resists Arkin's intrusion in his life.
Clydie (Rosanna Arquette) resists and her deputy dawg boyfriend (Edward Blatchford) is playing both sides.
Only young Pico(Bill Ewing), who resists his power of influence, can stop vampire Count Khorda(Robert Quarry)who plans to sacrifice his girlfriend Rona(Brenda Dickson)in a Satanic ceremony.
She resists, the cops are called, and there's a standoff between Victor and policemen David and Sancho.
I pray that the US resists the urge to remake it!
And no nation on earth more aggressively resists the application of international human rights law to itself.
The United States resists application of human rights law to its activities abroad because it has unique human rights enforcement obligations, and thus potential exposure to the strictures of human rights law.
This is tied to a way of thinking and a sense of knowing that is largely contemplative and sometimes even disempowering, as reality comes to seem to be whatever resists our concerted efforts at change.
Much of the financial industry resists such measures, as do the many economists who remain wedded to the old orthodoxy.
Europe and the world cannot afford to allow dynamic France to succumb to static France, the France that resists all change.
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