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Sentence count:289+13Posted:2016-07-16Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: counteractopposewithstandAntonym: obeySimilar words: resistancehypothesisresignassistinsistpersistsubsistconsistMeaning: [rɪ'zɪst]  v. 1. elude, especially in a baffling way 2. stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something 3. express opposition through action or words 4. withstand the force of something 5. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ 6. refuse to comply. 
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211 Puzzles that resist solution are seen as anomalies rather than as falsifications of a paradigm.
212 The wry twist of amusement around his lips finally proved impossible to resist.
213 The casings are also designed to resist the ravages of sunlight and temperature changes.
214 It seems children can't resist them: Male speaker Children like to carve faces out of them. Sentencedict.com
215 Nevertheless, there was a degree of innovation in one aspect of this design: its ability to resist high wind.
216 However, monopoly corporations and unions tend to resist the appropriation of surplus created by social capital but appropriated privately.
217 Younger players in particular, as well as less established players, may find it particularly difficult to resist such pressures.
218 The moral courage required on the part of the elderly person to recognise what is happening and not resist should also be saluted.
219 There was an immediate outcry from whites in the South, and preparations were made to resist the Court's decision.
220 Most licensed dealers could not resist kicking a man when he's down.
221 If John walked through the door this minute, she wondered if she would be able to resist taking him back.
222 We should resist the manipulation of our desires and form a coalition with women internationally to resist the colonisation of our bodies.
223 The clinical teacher should be part of the ward team[sentencedict.com], but must resist becoming an extra pair of hands.
224 Whenever the jeep came, it was difficult to resist the moral pressure to keep it with me.
225 But I must resist the temptation to treat so serious a matter with levity.
226 When security guards came to stop him, he did not resist.
227 She saw the gleam through the green, she could not resist it.
228 A bill comes in and along comes sugar daddy with a loan, you can t resist it.
229 But the planning authorities could not resist all new development.
230 Management by inertia is such a draining and wasteful approach that you must be prepared to resist its consequences with vigour.
231 The only ultimately effective way the worker can resist is through collective class action to overthrow the capitalist mode of production.
232 The obvious question is how long the present authoritative regime will be able to resist the pressures.
233 Now you try this exercise, and resist the impulse to give up.
234 Archbishop Stratford, however, ignored several papal letters urging him to resist royal encroachments on alien priories.
235 It just hits you like some spiteful virus and down you go, knowing it's crazy but powerless to resist.
236 Lovers of night life won't be able to resist the many nightclubs in the area.
237 He could not resist a faint smile creeping over his face.
238 After all these years she still couldn't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger.
239 The newspapers cannot resist kicking a man when he is down.
240 Meanwhile, the leading Pandava brother is enticed into a dice game he knows he will lose but can not resist.
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