Examples of resisting

• He couldn't resist embellishing the story of his accident a little.

• The town had been besieged for two months but still resisted the aggressors.

• They are bravely resisting subjugation by their more powerful neighbours.

• General Rattigan summoned reinforcements to help resist the attack.

• He usually resists attempts to introduce new procedures.

• But still, the subjects of the law found ways of resisting and tempering their sentences, as the other essays show.

• For every redundant actuator added within branch(es), the number of the forces resisting an external load is augmented by one.

• By this time, however, the voices of those resisting crude behaviourism had become much stronger.