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Example sentences for: resists

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They demand subsidies and threaten to brand the middle-class with philistinism if it resists.
Because Microsoft isn't looking for favors from the federal government, it resists paying a fee to self-appointed middlemen.
People who write for the NYTBR all have stories about how the section resists strong criticism and colorful writing.
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.
McCain resists the political horse trading that underlies legislating: He has said he has no plans to modify the tobacco bill to get it passed.