resist

Sergej Jakirovic could not resist a joke when asked about Hull City's remarkable start to life back in the Premier League on BBC Match of the Day.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

President Trump this week took to social media to blast people who resist data centers, placing his administration firmly on the pro-development side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

We therefore should resist the temptation to extrapolate the blazingly fast earnings growth of recent quarters into the indefinite future.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

The head of the IG Metall union on Friday sharply criticised management and promised to resist the factory closures.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

I slip my phone back into my bag, resist inspecting the earrings, and keep moving.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

Indeed, one of the striking features of the majority opinion is how persistently it resists artificial distinctions.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Which isn’t to say that Gibbard entirely resists placing blame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

The goal: to build digital ecosystems that ensure Europe retains control over services and data, and resists foreign interference.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

She resists, preferring to forget the intense physical and emotional pain of her life, but is lured by her longing to paint again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

I can tell he wants to make fun of me, but he resists.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

But the dish I resisted for years was the brick chicken.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The bills received a key endorsement from CSU, which has resisted past efforts out of concern that far less costly community college degrees could siphon students from its campuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Now, chemists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have developed a method for creating nanocrystals from metal nitrides, a technologically important group of materials that had resisted conventional nanocrystal synthesis.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

He initially resisted that and did not come in, but then came in at the next call.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

It was the same point of view as Mauricio Babilonia's, but Meme resisted believing it because underneath it all she imagined that it had been inspired by the poor judgment of a mechanic.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He takes the long view of Afghanistan's history of resisting foreign invaders.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Soriot built his name by resisting a megadeal once before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The bottom line: Give Cook credit for resisting the many calls over the last 15 years to respond to the latest fashion on Wall Street.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026

Long criticized for falling behind in the AI race, Apple is now being rewarded by Wall Street for resisting the vast investments its big tech rivals have poured into chips and data centers.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Some people personalize events excessively, resisting an external perspective, and since numbers and an impersonal view of the world are intimately related, this resistance contributes to an almost willful innumeracy.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos