"resist" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In one such incident in the Bronx, in 1984, a police officer shot and killed a 66-year-old black woman, Eleanor Bumpurs, who was resisting eviction for nonpayment of rent.
- On the morning of Oct. 29, 1984, City Housing Authority officials summoned the police after reporting that Mrs. Bumpurs was resisting eviction.
- In requesting NYPD assistance, housing authority workers told police that Bumpurs was emotionally disturbed, had threatened to throw boiling lye, and was using a knife to resist eviction.
- The Guji also acquired firearms during this period, and used them to resist eviction from the Park afterwards.
- To many in the neighborhood, the community group's three-year effort to resist eviction symbolized a broader struggle against the gentrification of the Lower East Side.
- In the 1870s, the Fenians tried to organise the tenant farmers in County Mayo to resist eviction.
- The statement did not indicate whether the owners would resist eviction.
- The rest of the Nama resisted eviction throughout the apartheid era, and Kooper also was brought back by the community.
- The party is expected to acknowledge that the court "stands on the shoulders" of the crofters of the Braes who resisted eviction.
- Charas has been resisting eviction ever since.
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