The wood eats up the energy of the strike in a thing called internal resistance.

Once upon a time, she and others had been trained in a protest technique called passive resistance.

The genetically based ability of a rice variety to withstand pest attacks is called resistance.

It never suggests that the Christian can resolve the problem of evil which we encounter by what we call resistance.

All of these devices exhibit the phenomenon called negative resistance.

In physics, drag (sometimes called resistance) is a force which tends to slow down the movement of an object through a liquid or gas.

I would not call it resistance, but tensions will appear.

An overwhelming majority of students support what they call armed resistance, and about one-fourth say they are willing to use violence themselves.

When electrical current moves through wire, it encounters an energy-sapping phenomenon called resistance.

It is particularly associated with his contributions to the idea and practice of nonviolent resistance, sometimes also called civil resistance.