"resist" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

resist verbo

resist + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 107
resist arrest • resist pressure • resist efforts • resist attempts • resist change • resist calls • resist demands • resist the temptation • ...
verbo + resist
Kolokacji: 11
continue to resist • try to resist • stop resisting • continue resisting • keep resisting • ...
resist + preposición
Kolokacji: 21
resist by • resist for • resist with • resist at • resist on • ...
resist + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 43
successfully resist • initially resist • strongly resist • fiercely resist • no longer resist • ...
(2) initially, originally
Kolokacji: 2
(3) strongly, effectively
Kolokacji: 2
(6) vigorously, strenuously
Kolokacji: 2
  • Not many people get the chance to leave the human race while still alive, and he'd strenuously resisted all efforts to turn him back.
  • But this is a temptation which should be strenuously resisted.
  • I believe that is important and something which has been strenuously resisted over the years by the wine lobby.
  • And in 1996, the state dropped its system of regulating charges for hospital care, a change the industry strenuously resisted.
  • But they just as strenuously resist caps on their ability to earn fees at market rates.
  • The societies strenuously and effectively resisted all efforts to bring them under normal military discipline.
  • Any possibility of further reductions in respite care should be strenuously resisted.
  • But employers have strenuously resisted any new mandates, saying they would increase insurance costs, which are already rising rapidly.
  • Sometimes she should resist the image more strenuously.
  • It was initiated by the commission last spring, after being strenuously resisted by the police chief and the mayor.
(7) barely, hardly, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
(8) repeatedly, continually
Kolokacji: 2

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