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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.
But even when parents were asked if they would prefer other arrangements--and who among us resists betterment?
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.
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.
A public intellectual resists the frivolous.