"resist" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Profit from crime is why local politicians so adamantly resist the sovereignty of Bosnia, these officials say.
- But the mayor's language seemed unlikely to shake anything loose in Albany, where many lawmakers, especially Republicans from upstate districts, adamantly resist increasing the city's share of education aid.
- Czechoslovakia adamantly resisted reforms, for good reason.
- No one resisted Mr. Gorbachev's call for reforms more adamantly than the gerontocrats in East Berlin.
- He quotes an 18th-century French naturalist who speculated that Islamic proselytizing failed in China because the Chinese adamantly resisted the idea of giving up pork.
- But Attallah, citing publications from the Women's Press for his credentials, adamantly resists charges of exploitation; the benefit, he argues, was mutual.
- She adamantly resisted help and created trouble for everyone who reached out to her.
- St. Casimir, a Polish church in Newark, adamantly and successfully resisted a merger with a Portuguese parish in recent years.
- China and Myanmar, the two countries that have most adamantly resisted the pressure of pro-democratic protesters and their foreign supporters, are special cases as well, Professor Zunes said.
- So why do you resist so adamantly?
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