Antonym: obedience. Similar words: assistance, distance, in the distance, resist, stance, assistant, substance, instance. Meaning: [rɪ'zɪstəns] 
n. 1. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with 2. any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion 3. a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms 4. the military action of resisting the enemy's advance 5. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease 6. a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force 7. the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) 8. (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness 9. an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current 10. group action in opposition to those in power.
n. 1. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with 2. any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion 3. a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms 4. the military action of resisting the enemy's advance 5. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease 6. a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force 7. the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) 8. (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness 9. an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current 10. group action in opposition to those in power. 
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211. State law could not provide discipline because it met resistance from consciences.
212. Learning a lesson Resistance to vancomycin already has created a smaller monster of a bug that had been virtually harmless, enterococcus.
213. Slowly an underground resistance movement grew, catering for discriminating customers.
214. Nor do fans see themselves as engaging in a kind of working-class resistance to the commercialization of football in any straight forward sense.
215. There was no resistance from government forces, most of whom had already allied themselves with Masud.
216. The development of antimicrobial resistance is a dynamic process requiring continual surveillance of organism susceptibility over time.
217. Make sure that the level of the arms stays constant and that you apply some extra resistance as you squeeze.
218. He circulated them to black churches and initially got some resistance because of his history as a blues artist.
219. Only through unity and collective resistance can these people stand up to the powerful interests that seek to control their lives.
220. Wind resistance: I had no complaints even on blustery days with snow underfoot.
221. But when he approached the canal company,(sentencedict.com) he met a wall of resistance.
222. However, Wainwright offered stubborn resistance, and responded with some hard hitting from the baseline to level the score at 6-6.
223. The programme's emphasis on a mixed economy also met little resistance.
224. One character is in the Resistance, another witnesses Hiroshima, another goes to a concentration camp, others stay at home.
225. Most of the younger resistance fighters lived with other families who treated them like their sons.
226. His attempts to link reductions in working hours to more flexible work practices, for example, have run into powerful union resistance.
227. When m 0.6, the input resistance remains close to for frequencies up to 85% of the critical frequency.
228. Wells were coated as indicated and bound virus was detected by transfer of puromycin resistance to NIH3T3 cells.
229. Hogan ably dissects the issues driving the various manifestations of resistance.
230. Yet reform could spell disaster for a regime whose very fundamentals rested on a resistance to change.
231. It was the Livsey century that had finally broken the Warwickshire resistance - Jeeves to the rescue once more.
232. This should help slow the rate at which bacteria develop antibiotic resistance.
233. He swept her resistance aside as if it were a cobweb.
234. The rebels have put up fierce resistance with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.
235. Resistance has been confirmed in most counties where blackgrass is a problem, and is causing increasing concern.
236. The site of increased resistance in patients with acute liver failure has not been clearly established.
237. A bipartisan drive to change the rules for financing federal campaigns is running into stiff resistance from veteran members of Congress.
238. Any inability to carry the weight on the hind-legs will trigger off resistance in the mouth.
239. Farmers employ mixed cropping systems and plant local cultivars with some resistance to pests.
240. This is a mechanism of drug resistance distinct from amplification and multidrug-resistance described previously.
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