Resisted in a sentence

But the powers-that-be have resisted this approach even more strongly than they have resisted the five-year, fully-guaranteed deal that the Browns gave to Watson.

Several Republican governors have resisted making mask-wearing in public spaces mandatory, and the president has also largely resisted wearing one in public.

They resisted it through months of negotiations while holding out for more and more U.S. concessions, and they’ve resisted it because they’ve had to.

In Missouri, 43% of samples were resistant to two different herbicides; 6% resisted three; and 0.5% resisted four.

After an April weekend saw three teens shot as hundreds of youths converged downtown and along the lakefront, then mayor-elect Johnson urged people not to “demonize youth” and resisted calls to walk back that statement.

A hockey and baseball player growing up in Toronto, Edey resisted basketball at first.

All his scheming to be nominated as the Vice-Presidential Candidate to Abiola was resisted by the SDP governors, led by Chief Odigie John Oyegun, Alhaji Bukar Abba Ibrahim and Chief Segun Osoba of Edo, Yobe and Ogun States respectively.

A MAN from St Asaph who drove a car without its owner’s consent, a licence or insurance, and resisted four police constables in a later incident, has been jailed.

A man who assaulted another man at a railway station while in possession of cannabis and who later resisted arrest has avoided an immediate jail term.

And I have steadfastly resisted the urge to open and peer into the top of the patio bluebird box.

Any attempt to allow Mr. Lamidi Apapa to foist the show of shame he and his minions exhibited today at the sitting of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal would be strongly resisted by Organised Labour.

As a result of his deep commitment to the PDP, Shema resisted the temptation to decamp to the APC despite the hostility he faced from APC administration after the 2015 general elections.

As for fighter jets, the Biden administration has resisted offering them up to now.

As the deputy tried to take him into custody, Pope resisted the effort to handcuff him, according to court documents.

As they had in Birmingham and Selma, they would seek change through nonviolent confrontation between those that resisted and those that demanded change.

A United Kingdom based security expert, Bulama Bukarti, said any form of government other than an elected government is illegal and unconstitutional and should be resisted.

Australia has resisted treating paedophiles before they harm children.

Because they were armed, I resisted the urge to ask about the rules of engagement.

Brown resisted and kicked both deputies during the scuffle, Covelli said.

But Bournemouth had other ideas and resisted some early pressure before Billing steered home in the 28th minute.