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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241. Hence, we postulated that adaptive cytoprotection maintains a physiological equilibrium between duodenal mucosal resistance and luminal acidity.
242. Nylon was chosen for its strength and its resistance to extremes of temperature and atmospheric pollution.
243. Hence the fierce resistance among the professionals to limited liability.Sentence dictionary
244. Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period, as will be seen in the next chapter.
245. Slowly we pull it up through the resistance and find it filled with a light, savory chicken liver mousse.
246. The priesthood built itself and if we help it along we are only following the line of least resistance.
247. By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of storms. Mehmet Murat ildan 
248. At the same time he was capable of strong resistance to conformity.
249. Clearly, too, the resistance and sabotage mentioned in official documents were the exception, not the rule.
250. Claude has suggested that there is an exponential relationship between the number of tight junctional strands and transepithelial resistance.
251. Its strength and abrasion resistance have made it ideal for shoe cleaning cloths, as provided by most hotel chains.
252. The problems of employee resistance to change were discussed in the earlier chapter on conflict, stress and change.
253. Prenatal and post - natal nutrition, adequate rest to build up resistance.
254. By turning re-selection test, masson pine provenances Guangdong 5 from 40 selected provenances, both resistance to pine wilt disease (PWD), but also to maturation feeding by the adults of M.
255. The results showed that the enhancement of activities of CarE and GSTs would be the main metabolic mechanism in the resistance of A. gossypii to imidacloprid.
256. In the method, control equations for the crack resistance capacity of the normal section are established, thus the area of prestressed steel tension member may be calculated.
257. The influence of carbon in martensitic matrix (by use different austenizing temperature) on two body abrasive and impact-abrasive wear resistance of ductile iron is studied.
258. This paper introduces the contrast test of wear resistance of hot rolled low - carbon high strength bainite steel plate to ordinary steel plate on QLK800.32 bucket wheel reclaimer.
259. At last, influences of the suit thermal resistance and impermeability index to body hot load ware analyzed with the modal built above.
260. You can force them, but nature prefers configurations that follow the path of least resistance.
261. High - performance synthetic rubber , anti - high temperature , low temperature resistance , corrosion resistance.
262. Objective To survey the antimicrobial resistance and plasmid profiles of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated from a hospital.
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