resistance

Example Sentences

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The likelihood of that suggests Brent oil prices should shoot well above the technical resistance level of $120 a barrel and move toward $150 or higher, Gertken told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

It matters because of what it signals to every other newsroom watching — every executive calculating the cost of compliance versus resistance, every journalist wondering whether their employer will protect them.

From Salon • May 13, 2026

Seyffardt was a Dutch general who commanded a Waffen-SS unit of volunteers on the eastern front before he was assassinated by resistance fighters in 1943.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

This family member, who wished to remain anonymous, told Brand he saw the painting hanging in the hallway of the granddaughter of Seyffardt, who was assassinated by Dutch resistance fighters in 1943.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Even though many of their people were fleeing, the Cherokee Nation kept up their resistance.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz