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  1. Resisting

    of Resist

  2. Resistingadjective

    making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of resisting in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of resisting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of resisting in a Sentence

  1. Steve Martini:

    The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

  2. Robert English:

    Eventually, the loss of troops, the loss of foreign investment, the loss of public support, the economic drain — all those are facts that he can't ignore indefinitely, but I think he's resisting that because he's living … in a world of slanted intelligence and illusions and utopian ideas about a return of the Russian Empire that will take some time to crumble away. And he's resisting it mightily, still trying to come up with that military victory, even as everyone else can see it grinding to a halt.

  3. Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the:

    While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

  4. Peter King:

    You had a 350-pound person who was resisting arrest. The police were trying to bring him down as quickly as possible, if he had not had asthma and a heart condition and was so obese, almost definitely he would not have died.

  5. Ancient Proverb:

    Good habits result from resisting temptation.

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