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Gay and AIDS activists have resisted such measures as stigmatizing.
But this interpretation misrepresents the record: Most Albanians resisted invasion; they didn't collaborate with the Turks any more than their Serbian neighbors did.
He declined invitations from Democrats and Republicans to run for the Senate in California and resisted efforts to draft him into the 1988 presidential race.
"I know a lot of Australia is conservative and has resisted change, but the radical policies that Thatcher and Reagan brought in are now bearing fruit," he said.
Treated cells resisted detachment from the plastic coverslips under simulated arterial shear stress conditions.