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"Zippergate" was taken up by the Irish Sunday Independent . The serious German newspapers, which tend to avoid catch lines anyway, are calling it nothing at all, while the British ones have so far sensibly resisted "gates" of any kind, using straightforward catch lines like "The White House Scandal" or "The Clinton Scandal."
Why has the United States resisted the establishment of a permanent war-crimes tribunal?
The Titan saw nothing wrong with bankrupting companies that resisted his advances.
KSM says he resisted the pressure.
Standard resisted until 1911, when the Supreme Court approved the government's plan.