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Do Paul Coleman feel like Paul Coleman can not resist the drive to exercise ? That’s when we get into the definition of a compulsive behavior. – Simon Rego	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I am in the middle of employees who resist to wild globalization. I am not with the managers who eat petit fours. – Le Pen	Found on CNN 7 years ago
It's been very successful organically without any particular strategic thought, it's been a very gut-level, sincere, powerful effort to resist a departure from basic American values. And the fact that it has been organic and natural without a dime's worth of provocation is pretty amazing. – Jay Inslee	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Syringoma is characterized by benign, flesh-colored pimples that are usually not tender to the touch, sometimes there are multiple lesions, or they can grow larger than you’re comfortable with, but resist trying to remove or pop them yourself. It can cause damage to the surrounding skin. – Kameelah Phillips	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We can win if we resist together for liberty, justice and equality. This is our shared America. – Shree Chauhan	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There are risks every officer knows going in, that includes everything from going up against an armed suspect who is going to resist and going to do everything to escape, including shooting to try and kill you, to being struck by a car during a traffic stop. – Randy Sutton	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Mandatory diversity training sends exactly the message of control - and psychological research shows us time and time again [that] people resist control. – Alexandra Kalev	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Now that's a political temptation that the chief justice should resist. – Chuck Grassley	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Corden has made the ‘Late Late Show’ his own, he’s completely reinvented the format with inventive games, his singing and dancing, and of course his Carpool Karaoke series -- and then there’s that infectious laugh. It's impossible to resist. – Television Debra Birnbaum	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
These old Nike sites were made of very heavy and durable concrete. It is some of the best to resist a nuclear blast. – Edward Peden	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You get into this campaign. And it's so hard to let go, this is not a campaign that will resist letting go if the path is not there. – Jason Johnson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
No one is able to resist against the will of the majority of the people and whoever the people don’t want has to step aside. – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Often, the reason we study this type of learning process is to help us better understand addiction, and the biggest problem with addiction is relapse, when you see this biological correlation between those who are and those who are not able to resist something, you can build on that. – Shelly Flagel	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In France, we always have the right to write and draw. And if some people are not happy with this, they can sue us and we can defend ourselves. That's democracy, you don't throw bombs -- you discuss, you debate. But you don't act violently. We have to stand and resist pressure from extremism. – Charlie Hebdo journalist Laurent Leger	Found on CNN 8 years ago
During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation, no one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country. – Nikki Haley	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices, we must resist that temptation. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country. – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When they caught this person, they asked him, 'Why did you do this?' This person did not resist -- this person said, 'I did it because I pledged allegiance to ISIS. I am inspired by ISIS,' to his credit, the police chief of Philadelphia said this person did it because of ISIS. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I believe that our non-oil and gas deficit had risen to a very dangerous level. So now we are forced to lower it. And this is healthy, it is very difficult ... to resist spending oil and gas revenues to cover current expenses. (But) it is the reduction of these expenses that improves the economy. – President Vladimir Putin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We stand by our people who resist the tanks and shelling. – Selahattin Demirtas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
One thing that we may see is more confidence in the boardroom of targets to resist hostile approaches until the end ; in other words, an increase in the number of' hostile hostiles' that never turn friendly, the Perrigo defense against Mylan, the largest hostile deal ever to go the full distance, shows that a target can pursue a sound defensive strategy, even in the absence of showstopper defenses or litigation, and win. – Igor Kirman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think Electrolux should resist any temptation on acquisitions. – David Hallden at UBS	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I cannot accept this but there's nothing to be done, everything has been decided ... Even if we go out in the streets, if we resist, nothing will change. – Eleftherios Orimazoglou	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The shooting down of a Russian fighter jet illustrates precisely why we need open lines of communication with Russia and should resist calls from some presidential candidates to isolate ourselves from discussions with our adversaries, in addition, those who are calling for a no-fly zone need to realize that shooting down other countries' fighter jets will be the result and a war between nuclear superpowers a possibility. – Rand Paul	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Mr. Clark was given multiple opportunities to desist, while he was being legally detained, he chose to resist, fight officers and to seize control of an officer's firearm. – Frederic Bruno	Found on CNN 8 years ago

Do Paul Coleman feel like Paul Coleman can not resist the drive to exercise ? That’s when we get into the definition of a compulsive behavior.

– Simon Rego

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I am in the middle of employees who resist to wild globalization. I am not with the managers who eat petit fours.

– Le Pen

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It's been very successful organically without any particular strategic thought, it's been a very gut-level, sincere, powerful effort to resist a departure from basic American values. And the fact that it has been organic and natural without a dime's worth of provocation is pretty amazing.

– Jay Inslee

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Syringoma is characterized by benign, flesh-colored pimples that are usually not tender to the touch, sometimes there are multiple lesions, or they can grow larger than you’re comfortable with, but resist trying to remove or pop them yourself. It can cause damage to the surrounding skin.

– Kameelah Phillips

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We can win if we resist together for liberty, justice and equality. This is our shared America.

– Shree Chauhan

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There are risks every officer knows going in, that includes everything from going up against an armed suspect who is going to resist and going to do everything to escape, including shooting to try and kill you, to being struck by a car during a traffic stop.

– Randy Sutton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Mandatory diversity training sends exactly the message of control - and psychological research shows us time and time again [that] people resist control.

– Alexandra Kalev

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Now that's a political temptation that the chief justice should resist.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Corden has made the ‘Late Late Show’ his own, he’s completely reinvented the format with inventive games, his singing and dancing, and of course his Carpool Karaoke series -- and then there’s that infectious laugh. It's impossible to resist.

– Television Debra Birnbaum

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

These old Nike sites were made of very heavy and durable concrete. It is some of the best to resist a nuclear blast.

– Edward Peden

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You get into this campaign. And it's so hard to let go, this is not a campaign that will resist letting go if the path is not there.

– Jason Johnson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

No one is able to resist against the will of the majority of the people and whoever the people don’t want has to step aside.

– Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Often, the reason we study this type of learning process is to help us better understand addiction, and the biggest problem with addiction is relapse, when you see this biological correlation between those who are and those who are not able to resist something, you can build on that.

– Shelly Flagel

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In France, we always have the right to write and draw. And if some people are not happy with this, they can sue us and we can defend ourselves. That's democracy, you don't throw bombs -- you discuss, you debate. But you don't act violently. We have to stand and resist pressure from extremism.

– Charlie Hebdo journalist Laurent Leger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation, no one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country.

– Nikki Haley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices, we must resist that temptation. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country.

– South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When they caught this person, they asked him, 'Why did you do this?' This person did not resist -- this person said, 'I did it because I pledged allegiance to ISIS. I am inspired by ISIS,' to his credit, the police chief of Philadelphia said this person did it because of ISIS.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe that our non-oil and gas deficit had risen to a very dangerous level. So now we are forced to lower it. And this is healthy, it is very difficult ... to resist spending oil and gas revenues to cover current expenses. (But) it is the reduction of these expenses that improves the economy.

– President Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We stand by our people who resist the tanks and shelling.

– Selahattin Demirtas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One thing that we may see is more confidence in the boardroom of targets to resist hostile approaches until the end ; in other words, an increase in the number of' hostile hostiles' that never turn friendly, the Perrigo defense against Mylan, the largest hostile deal ever to go the full distance, shows that a target can pursue a sound defensive strategy, even in the absence of showstopper defenses or litigation, and win.

– Igor Kirman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think Electrolux should resist any temptation on acquisitions.

– David Hallden at UBS

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I cannot accept this but there's nothing to be done, everything has been decided ... Even if we go out in the streets, if we resist, nothing will change.

– Eleftherios Orimazoglou

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The shooting down of a Russian fighter jet illustrates precisely why we need open lines of communication with Russia and should resist calls from some presidential candidates to isolate ourselves from discussions with our adversaries, in addition, those who are calling for a no-fly zone need to realize that shooting down other countries' fighter jets will be the result and a war between nuclear superpowers a possibility.

– Rand Paul

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Mr. Clark was given multiple opportunities to desist, while he was being legally detained, he chose to resist, fight officers and to seize control of an officer's firearm.

– Frederic Bruno

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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