"resist" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Republicans resisted additional cuts in education, Democrats in health and welfare spending.
- But they can be expected to resist cuts in reimbursement rates to hospitals and nursing homes, which they traditionally have protected.
- Officials said the city's five district attorneys were bitterly resisting proposed cuts to their agencies.
- The Pentagon resists deeper cuts, saying there is no one in Moscow with authority to negotiate.
- Yet he and Defense Secretary Cheney resist cuts in this area above all.
- To deploy defenses, meanwhile, would surely lead Russia's military to resist deep cuts in its missile force.
- The American economy has become highly dependent on military contracts, and local politicians almost automatically resist cuts that would affect their constituencies.
- But the armed services have until now resisted deeper cuts and have been buoyed by big increases in military spending since Sept. 11.
- The Assembly wisely resisted similar cuts proposed earlier this year and should do so again.
- "I'll resist cuts that I believe will damage the quality of care that we provide," he said in the interview.
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