"resist" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The fort would provide a place of shelter for troops while passively resisting an assault by the enemy.
- Unable to understand what was being said - shouted in Chinese - the prisoner could only passively resist.
- Some smaller settlements, even if they do more than passively resist, will be overwhelmed with superior, though unarmed, forces.
- The Karens in the army fought them stoutly and the civil population passively resisted.
- Demonstrators who passively resisted the evacuation were carried onto buses.
- They passively resisted the occupation, and the economy suffered, significantly contributing to the hyperinflation that followed in Germany.
- All we can do is resist passively and be as difficult as possible in the process.
- What I do is organize nonviolent protests and tell my followers to resist passively.
- The small vessel no longer struggled, nor even moved, but was merely resisting passively.
- He tried to pull her into bed with him, but she resisted passively.
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