resistance
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One source familiar with the negotiations said the states had four separate votes against settling on Sunday, but the resistance eventually crumbled with word that the WGA was backing out of the fight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Community resistance is becoming more visible in some urban developments, adding another layer of execution risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Those strategies include balance training and resistance exercise, which can help improve strength, stability, and physical function.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
True, there have been moments in the nation’s martial past when social progress and military resistance sat in uneasy tension.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Between 1780 and 1815 the leaders of the new nation tried to go forward as “United” states but encountered resistance from settlers and from state governments.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The most powerful ones have to be used as rarely as possible, to give bacteria fewer opportunities to develop resistances.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024
Driven by the overuse of antimicrobials, pathogens are quickly building up resistances to once-successful treatments.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
Though mosquito insecticides exist, the pests are developing resistances, and advancements are needed to reduce their numbers and slow the spread of pathogens they carry, including the malaria parasite and the Zika and dengue viruses.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
Over time, populations within any species of bacteria emerge with one, then two or more resistances to antibiotics, until we get potentially untreatable super strains.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023
That something seemed to have rules and resistances of its own, ones that did not stem from me.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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