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Example sentences for: resist

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When Clinton says, "Let us resist the temptation to copy ourselves," it comes from a man not known for resisting other temptations of the flesh.
Some of these groups would strongly resist any changes.
By the end of the book, when you're being advised to join a support group to help you resist the urge to have a normal conversation with your boyfriend, the whole enterprise has a distinctly cultish flavor.
Turning to the CIA, Clarke warned that its bureaucracy, which was "masterful at passive aggressive behavior," would resist funding the new national security presidential directive, leaving it a "hollow shell of words without deeds."
Giuliani's new ambition--to make all welfare recipients work--seems fraught: There are too many sick and otherwise disabled recipients who will resist.