"resist" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can't be saved by an outside force.
- The local people resisted encroachment on their traditional tribal lands.
- Elsewhere more benign structures were potent enough to resist encroachment.
- The Veddha were once found all over the island; now there are only 1,500 of them left, trying, in vain, to resist encroachment from outside.
- Because of the reasons listed, Hamilton believes that state governments will have the popular strength to resist encroachment on their state's rights.
- The decision was a major shift from previous court decisions and granted governors a legal basis to resist future encroachment on their powers.
- Traditionalists didn't fight and die resisting white encroachment because the sovereignty of their nations seemed foolish.
- To resist encroachments upon areas of responsibility, as the Treasurer must be free to carry out official duties without interference.
- Pelayo gathered a band of warriors to resist Islamic encroachment.
- The Turkmen people resisted Russian encroachments but were finally subdued in 1881.
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