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How to use the word Resistance in a Sentence?

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What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Thomas Jefferson

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4 months ago

The majority of the population fiercely oppose going to the polls to legitimize the military’s political control, so we will see violence ratchet up if the regime seeks to impose a vote, and resistance groups seek to disrupt them.

Richard Horsey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Changes in these metabolic markers can be indicative of a number of different health outcomes in the future for the children, such as an increased susceptibility to obesity, insulin resistance, increased risk for fatty liver disease and potentially cancer.

David Andrews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By working multiple large muscle groups at the same time, it forces blood and oxygen to move around our bodies, keeping our heart rate elevated nearly the entire time, i love this weighted rope specifically as opposed to a non-weighted one because the slight increase in weight will create more resistance as you jump, which is crucial for muscle toning and strength building benefits.

Jilliann Schembri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I conceptualize it as a form of resistance, instead of accepting the status quo, families are resisting what’s happening in their schools.

Cheryl Fields-Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are many potential mechanisms including the improvement and maintenance of body composition, insulin resistance and physical function because of a wide variety of favorable influences of aerobic activity.

Haruki Momma

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we’re a big enough nation to do more than one thing, to continue to fight against AIDS in the continent of Africa and to support the Ukrainian freedom fighters does not constrain our capacity to help our own citizens. I don’t understand why there’s any resistance to a program like PEPFAR unless we’ve lost our compassion.

President Bush

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A frame is a psychological model you build for yourself to organize and carry out a strategy to attain a goal; to move from spot A to spot B while guarding against detours and resistance.”

Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

Some of those things come very easy — like, they’re in my wheelhouse, they energize me, I ca n’t wait to get to them, and some of those things are a little more tedious, or I have some resistance around them.

Robin Nordmeyer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When somebody does present with a drug-resistant bacteria or fungus and we really need to rely on one of these last-line antibiotics, it’s usually a challenge to treat from the outset. And so the patients really don’t do as well as a result, in rare circumstances, we run out of options entirely, and in that case, there’s really nothing we can do. Fortunately, those cases remain quite rare, but I am certain that with this growing antibiotic resistance problem, we’ll see these increasing frequency over time.

Scott Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What’s changing is that more people that are exposed have those high risk factors. We have aging populations, and we were using a lot of chemicals in the environment which are forcing fungi to adapt, and our clinical antifungals are being degraded by antimicrobial resistance.

Matthew Fisher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The main tool in 1932-33 was extermination by starvation, taking away all foodstuffs and making conditions incompatible with life. It is the same now. Creating conditions incompatible with life, but now there is a wider range of tools, and they are more military related. New weapons, new missiles. A huge mass of troops aimed at destroying and suppressing Ukrainian resistance.

Mykhailo Kostiv

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have always had an engineering mentality with strong property rights, there’s also an intense resistance by property owners when it comes to giving up their property rights.

Nicholas Pinter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In some ways, he has become the face of ‘the Resistance,’.

Joseph Fessio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are against racial discrimination, but pernicious division and discrimination by race have been ongoing for a long time in admissions, so there is wrongful resistance to a change back to privileging individual merit. Those who see everything through the lens of color, want a superficial skin color result, or benefit from that, should join us in opposing discriminating by race.

Wai Wah Chin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's resistance to it, because it's a different way of working.

Joseph Manning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On an official level, Hezbollah is a resistance movement ; however, its role has evolved beyond [ Lebanon ] as it morphed into a regional player, to call Hezbollah a resistance movement is inaccurate.

Mohanad Hage Ali

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's just so many components to this where, for one population it's about lack of HPV vaccination uptake, and for another population, it's really about chemotherapy resistance, lack of access to specialist care and probably a changed biology, what you have here, in one cancer, is all the different types of disparities one could think of, kind of enmeshed into one space.

Arif Kamal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Women in Canada are not walking around this country in a state of constant consent to sexual activity unless and until they say No or offer resistance to anyone who targets them for sexual activity.

Catherine Anne Fraser

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

For too long political games in Washington on both sides of the aisle have stopped progress towards protecting our communities and keeping families safe and secure, casting blame and trading political barbs and attacks became the path of least resistance, but the communities across our country who have experienced senseless violence deserve better than Washington politics as usual.

Kyrsten Sinema

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Then it meant that it was tricky to tow the tanks back to Russia for repairs, because they were far away, and so a lot of them were abandoned. Lots of their equipment started breaking because the tanks can only take so much moving around, and, of course, you have the very well-documented resistance from local Ukrainians, who didn't take too well to being occupied.

Emily Ferris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Based off of the evidence that I reviewed, it was clear that the use of force policy was violated, i will tell you that all use of force has to be proportionate to the resistance they're trying to overcome. I will also tell you that our policy clearly states that excessive force will not be tolerated.

Police Commissioner Danielle M. Outlaw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whether that's in the school board or whether that's in a library, somebody wants something gone and it appears to be going. At their meetings, there's no resistance, there's no friction, there's no one in some of these rooms saying' well, hold on a minute, let's make sure we exercise due diligence, due process, consider the kind of diversity of opinions as people who our institution serves,'.

Jonathan Friedman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's more comfortable, militarily, for New Russia to fight a war in The Donbas than it was in Kyiv, Sumy, or Kharkiv, but it's also the place where the Ukrainian army's most experienced and fortified units are located... so they'll face the most severe resistance.

Markian Dobczansky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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