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Example sentences for: resists

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Most of all, the program should stress that a man's evolved sexual desires offer him no excuse whatsoever for raping a woman, and that if he understands and resists those desires, he may be able to prevent their manifestation in sexually coercive behavior.
Americans spend $30 billion a year on weight-loss programs, but obesity resists treatment more tenaciously than do viruses--90 percent to 95 percent of people who lose weight eventually regain it.
Lacquer also makes the ideal finish for tea and coffee services, since the material resists boiling water as well as the chemicals in tea and coffee.
Because Microsoft isn't looking for favors from the federal government, it resists paying a fee to self-appointed middlemen.
They demand subsidies and threaten to brand the middle-class with philistinism if it resists.