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Example sentences for: resisting

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Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article . Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.
According to an item in the WP , the federal government isn't so supple--the federal agency that regulates credit unions is resisting attempts to eliminate any of the 34 jobs it created to deal with Y2K problems.
B.R. and his chastened brother--the Shopping Avenger is resisting the urge to gloat--went to Ryder.
The conventional understanding at the time was that it was Morris' liberal enemies--George Stephanopoulos, Harold Ickes, and Leon Panetta--who were arguing in favor of fiercely resisting Republican cuts in social spending, while Morris was telling Clinton to distance himself from the intransigent congressional Democrats.
Republicans decided that passage was inevitable and resisting a hike might hurt them in the next election.