resistance

For generations, the 103-year-old Catholic parish has been a beacon of solace and resistance for residents angry about the latest indignity to befall the historic heart of Latino Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

The secret to many of the best personal-finance hacks is friction—the little tasks and activities that introduce resistance in the path between people and their intended goals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

It can be "necessity for the poor, meditation for some, an act of resistance for others and a path to discovery. Walking, they noted, also helped shape India's freedom struggle".

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Grassroots efforts at the municipal level have been far more effective in galvanizing resistance to the creation of new immigration prisons.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Fearful of an even larger confederacy, Harrison reasoned that destroying Prophet’s Town would crush the resistance.

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

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

In the 1940's and '50's, when humans first began taking antibiotics, the resistances were already in the environment and worked their way into the bacteria that cause human infection.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

And the ways in which we have learned to speak at or around those resistances.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 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