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Example sentences for: resist

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When we try a Quasi Modo on, we can't resist drooling a little in the dressing room, and calling out “Sanctuary!”
Employers resist letting some workers pick more expensive plans and cover the extra costs themselves because most insurers insist that companies--especially small companies--deliver all their employees to the plan.
Where Shaw's characters tend to represent views pitted against each other, Hare's cannot resist becoming genuine characters--contradictory, quirky, and imperfect both as heroes and villains.
Lacking the solidarity to unite and too weak to resist by themselves, Italian kingdoms and duchies were reduced to convenient pawns in Europe’s 18th-century dynastic power plays.
Such a "point," once made, could not resist the tendency to instill feelings of "envy" and ressentiment on the part of an author perhaps better compensated and perhaps more "popular," but in the view of the critical intelligence--if any such fitful and discredited light may still be conceived as being within our sphere--not really as good as mine.