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Resist

Resist meaning

To attempt to counter the actions or effects of. | To withstand the actions of. | To oppose; to refuse to accept.

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Example sentences (20)

In Iowa 89% of waterhemp samples resist two or more herbicides, 25% resist three, and 10% resist five.

By writing, I resist the destruction of language even though I could not resist the destruction of my city.

It's hard for anyone to resist their friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, and it is equally hard for anyone to resist their friendly neighborhood Libra too.

What can be observed and even the west must notice to their chagrin and frustration is China’s extreme resilience and capacity to adapt and resist, to resist with powerful minds and ingenuity that saves her people.

But if those that resist continue to resist with the lazy excuse that so-and-so isn’t doing it yet then yes we’ll all hold hands and drown.

Even while conservatives resist changes of tradition, they do not necessarily resist technological change.

The youths of Imo state will resist it, the women and the leaders of the state will resist it.

Cantilever walls resist lateral pressures by friction at the base of the wall and/or passive earth pressure, the tendency of the soil to resist lateral movement.

High temperature ashing, or stripping, is performed to remove as much photo resist as possible, while the "descum" process is used to remove residual photo resist in trenches.

It is equally likely that Atholl had gathered his forces to resist encursions into his heartlands on 7 March the queen and the council entreated the burgess ' of Perth to resist the forces of the 'feloune traitors'.

Lifeless bodies (such as the billiard balls) cannot resist such applications of physical force at all, and even living bodies (like arms) can only resist so far, and can be coercively overpowered.

The compression part must be designed to resist buckling and crushing, while the tension part must be able to adequately resist the tension.

This uniformity can be explained by detailed fluid-mechanical modelling, which shows that the resist moves much faster at the top of the layer than at the bottom, where viscous forces bind the resist to the wafer surface.

This usually requires a liquid "resist stripper", which chemically alters the resist so that it no longer adheres to the substrate.

We knew that there were strong forces that would resist such a process, just as the surface tension of an ordinary liquid drop tends to resist its division into two smaller ones.

After a spell in America, he arrived in England and when aviation was introduced, it was something he could not resist.

A game so good, Naughty Dog couldn't resist giving it some touch-ups and releasing it all over again.

A group of PCS union activists shared that they were going to resist their union's ballot to pause strike action.

Although the youngsters are not supposed to have sex, John said that a lot of them “ain’t got the power” to resist the temptation.

A National Labor Relations Board judge rules Amazon violated US federal labor laws as part of its efforts to resist unionization at two New York City facilitiesbloomberg.