resistance
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Mursal Khalif, an MP and head of the Ministry of Defence's Child Protection Unit, says efforts to stop such recruitment can face resistance - "some even viewed it as a Western agenda".
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
The study found that about 10% of people carry genetic variants linked to a phenomenon known as GLP-1 resistance.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
A bearish dark cloud cover candle is taking shape as shares encounter resistance at the now downward-sloping 50-week simple moving average.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The poems remain resistant, as they must; but their resistance now carries the force of address, a bottle sent out from wreckage toward an unknown reader.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Marco lifts his hand to a nearby rose and his fingers pass through its petals with only a soft resistance, as though they are made of water rather than ice.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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