Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.
Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
The resistance to science is idiotic.
There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.
We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.
Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
What I can't tell is, I don't know if there's a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera' anyway.
In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.
