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Example sentences for: resists

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Because Microsoft isn't looking for favors from the federal government, it resists paying a fee to self-appointed middlemen.
If agitation resists the titrated effects of rapid-acting, short-duration sedatives and becomes so severe that hemodynamic stability is threatened, therapeutic musculoskeletal paralysis, endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation, and titrated hemodynamic support may be necessary to prevent cardiorespiratory collapse.
She complains that India has it backward: The country resists Westernization in the cultural realm (literature, fashion, film) but joins the West in nuclear proliferation.
A public intellectual resists the frivolous.
But even when parents were asked if they would prefer other arrangements--and who among us resists betterment?