noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
encounter opposition/resistance
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The government has encountered strong opposition to its plans to raise income tax.
passive resistance
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They tried to achieve their aims by passive resistance.
stout defence/support/resistance
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He put up a stout defence in court.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
antimicrobial
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Objective I-C.. Improve surveillance and rapid laboratory identification to ensure early detection of antimicrobial resistance .
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The current crisis in antimicrobial resistance can not be adequately managed without dramatic changes in current patterns of antimicrobial drug usage.
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The development of antimicrobial resistance is a dynamic process requiring continual surveillance of organism susceptibility over time.
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For example, the true magnitude of the antimicrobial drug resistance crisis is unknown because of the absence of systematic monitoring.
great
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It is interesting to note that there appears to be great resistance to acknowledging the full impact of secularism on schools.
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The greatest resistance to union came primarily from the Gaelic peoples who inhabited the largest separate island to the west, Ireland.
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The parents start to react inappropriately to the child, attempt to force feed, and cause greater resistance .
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It is a very host centered view to expect greater resistance in the home lake.
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As well as these weather-resisting advantages, the cavity wall has greater sound and thermal insulating properties and a greater resistance to overturning.
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There was great resistance initially, but now almost every opera house uses them.
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On Earth the much greater air resistance masks this effect.
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The abolition of the sororities evidently did not take place without a great deal of resistance .
high
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The high resistance speaker used in previous experiments would not be satisfactory.
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They also have high impact resistance , offering unbeatable value, quality and performance.
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The space shuttle uses specially designed ceramic tiles with very high thermal resistances to prevent conduction during re-entry.
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Polycarbonate can be made as clear as glass, with high resistance to scratching and impact damage.
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The boots also showed high water resistance .
little
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The police began making arrests, finally, and there was little resistance .
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Crossing the Rapidan with but little resistance ...
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Hoard and Graham plowed downfield, with the Raiders offering little resistance .
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They met little resistance , agents claim.
passive
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The Magdalen College affair, for example, provides a classic example of passive resistance .
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Nor could Edna forgive Jane her offensive passive resistance .
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Within the classroom too teachers have to live with an active or passive resistance to their best efforts.
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Open negativism turns into stony passive resistance .
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There was great resentment, and considerable passive resistance .
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But passive resistance doesn't work.
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You can either hit these germs with an antibiotic, or paralyse your bowels and win through passive resistance .
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Chancellor Cuno's government proclaimed a policy of passive resistance , which entailed unlimited subsidies to the population of the Ruhr.
political
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Everything was out in the open - political resistance , management failings and just sheer inertia.
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What was needed now was a major legislative victory that would change the atmosphere of political resentment and resistance on Capitol Hill.
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Such questions are important because they probe the conditions under which political and cultural resistance is generated.
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There is recognition of the political resistance at home to waging wars against the colonial revolution in the name of anticommunism.
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Paradoxically, a true anti-sexist curriculum is one that encourages creative and political resistance - both in and out of school.
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Openness is becoming universal, and will continue to do so, whatever political resistance there may be.
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They insisted on fostering legal forms of opposition and on social rather than political resistance .
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Funding problems and political resistance are creating hurdles to the process, however.
strong
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There may be more reluctance, even strong resistance , to a transfer of role.
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In attempting to implement the new policy via decree, Gordon had encountered strong patient resistance .
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This had not been mentioned in the original discussions, so strong resistance to its being handed out had to be overcome.
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At the same time he was capable of strong resistance to conformity.
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Deep-rooted emotional stability. Strong resistance to stress.
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Sammler against strong internal resistance saw him.
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Lack of resources and strong resistance to breaking down barriers between health care agencies are other contributing factors.
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This sets up competition among individuals and often a strong resistance to much-needed changes.
stubborn
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However, Wainwright offered stubborn resistance , and responded with some hard hitting from the baseline to level the score at 6-6.
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What accounted for this stubborn resistance of nationalities to the predicted assimilation?
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After two-and-a-half years of stubborn resistance , the Republic collapsed rapidly during the first three months of 1939.
■ NOUN
air
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The actual path taken by the orbiter is complex and designed to minimize the effect of air resistance on the craft.
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This holds precisely because all objects fall at the same speed under gravity. Air resistance is being ignored here.
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No atmosphere means no air resistance .
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No air resistance means that it is easier to demonstrate one of the most important features of how gravity works.
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The problem of air resistance could be broken down into shape and surface effects.
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On Earth the much greater air resistance masks this effect.
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Above the atmosphere there is no air resistance no matter what the speed.
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For the moment let us forget about air resistance and assume that the whole set up is in free fall.
drug
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This is a mechanism of drug resistance distinct from amplification and multidrug-resistance described previously.
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For example, the true magnitude of the antimicrobial drug resistance crisis is unknown because of the absence of systematic monitoring.
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Fears of the emergence of drug resistance in colonising bacteria in patients receiving selective decontamination of the gut have not been realised.
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The role of comparative biochemistry in parasites and its role in drug resistance - species differences in tubulin - E Lacey.
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As a result, drug resistance flourished in the poorer boroughs.
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An important consideration is that multiple drug resistance has rendered many low-cost drugs useless for this purpose.
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There is rising drug resistance for major pathogens at the same time as new pathogens continue to appear.
fighter
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Soldiers, spies, resistance fighters , protesters.
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Most of the younger resistance fighters lived with other families who treated them like their sons.
gene
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Some can hop from host to host, carrying resistance genes as they go.
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The solid black box represents the ble resistance gene .
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The Murray Collection had plenty of plasmids, but no resistance genes at all.
insulin
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The increase in the serum insulin concentration after steroid treatment may reflect increased energy intake or induction of insulin resistance .
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This is the first treatment designed to specifically target insulin resistance , which is a precursor to diabetes.
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Challenging the orthodoxy of insulin resistance .
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In a vicious cycle, weight gain increases insulin resistance increases weight gain.
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This concept of selective insulin resistance is not new and has been well demonstrated in animal models.
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All that concentrated sugar can be dangerous for a person who has insulin resistance , and is at risk for diabetes.
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And for about 25 percent of people, weight gain increases insulin resistance , and can lead to diabetes.
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In most cases, the insulin resistance is due to obesity, especially the accumulation of too much fat within the abdomen.
load
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Consider their response to a steady sinusoidal input signal when a load resistance R L is connected across the output terminals.
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The current consumption of the stage will be fixed by the load resistance to which the collector is connected.
movement
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The resistance movement dismissed the allegations.
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Grandfather wanted to leave for Manchuria and join the resistance movement .
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These outbreaks were typically spontaneous and unpremeditated; there is no evidence of a football resistance movement in action.
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I know he and Alan are thick in the draft resistance movement .
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Slowly an underground resistance movement grew, catering for discriminating customers.
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Meanwhile, the resistance movement settled down to an in-and-out-of-all routine relieved by austerity on the farm.
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Was this man leading a resistance movement against the Dark Power?
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The Romantics, like each of the other resistance movements , partook of that ecospiritual sensibility in a particular way.
water
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Naturally the water resistance was less, but modern tanning processes have improved leathers considerably.
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Zipped fly. Water resistance: they stayed comfortable in a light drizzle, but wind-driven showers quickly penetrated the fabric.
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The boots also showed high water resistance .
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No fly. Water resistance: held off light showers well, though steady rain will penetrate.
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Double thickness seat and knee panels. Water resistance: water penetrates readily, but the trousers coped well with light drizzle.
wind
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If you want to lower the wind resistance on a car body how low do you want to get it?
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A car that squats low meets less wind resistance .
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It behaves as a solid body of a particular mass and wind resistance ought to behave.
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He says that because of the seated position the rider has less wind resistance and more leg power.
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However, the extra wind resistance created by the panels means that the construction must be fairly robust.
■ VERB
change
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Along with advances were false starts, successful resistance to change , failures and reversals.
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All fully partake of the sacred; and this is what gives them their perennial resistance to change .
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Mitchell shows how the tribal politics of Northern Ireland create both resistance to change and a network of matching relationships.
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Chapter 2 helps you avoid the mistake of equating hesitation and anxiety with determined resistance to change .
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What I now faced was a small town with a strongly macho bias and an inbuilt resistance to change .
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Official inertia and resistance to change have at times seemed to spring from a sense of hopelessness.
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The problems of employee resistance to change were discussed in the earlier chapter on conflict, stress and change.
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Despite recent media attention, Edith Morgan finds continued resistance to change and an urgent need for positive measures.
develop
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That is just a want. 7 Develop sales resistance .
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Insects gradually developed resistance to most of the major pesticides introduced in the years since.
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This should help slow the rate at which bacteria develop antibiotic resistance .
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But they began to develop resistance to the insecticide.
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And many pests have developed resistance to the most commonly used pesticides.
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Diseases are rapidly developing resistances to current antibiotics.
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More often than not, the parasite develops a resistance to drugs and suitable alternatives are not easy to find.
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Both the bugs also can develop resistance independently when a person is repeatedly subjected to antibiotics.
encounter
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In recent months, Musharraf has narrowed the focus of his sweeping reform agenda as it encountered resistance from various interest groups.
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But with every initiative, they encountered an undercurrent of resistance .
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Her hands encountered no resistance , but found no way through the fog.
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But his plan encountered resistance as soon as he got home.
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Measures to prevent the competitive liberalization of consumer credit will encounter the heaviest resistance .
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In attempting to implement the new policy via decree, Gordon had encountered strong patient resistance .
increase
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Any extra load on the tail will help to increase its resistance to moving sideways and so help prevent a serious swing.
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And for about 25 percent of people, weight gain increases insulin resistance , and can lead to diabetes.
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This may, however, worsen hypertension by increasing the peripheral vascular resistance .
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In combination they increase resistance twentyfold.
lead
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Probably only an opposition candidate who was himself a nationalist should have led the final resistance .
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But Hashimoto has also led resistance to economic changes and concessions urged by the Clinton administration.
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Was this man leading a resistance movement against the Dark Power?
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They will be largely disregarded, or even lead to organized resistance .
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In general it leads to low level resistance .
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Their view is that this will lead to clinical resistance and ultimately to a failure to implement.
meet
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The army said the attackers met considerable resistance .
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The Summer plan met with annual resistance from all four of us.
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These conditions were expected to meet stiff resistance in the Legislative Assembly.
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However tame, these charismatic approaches still met severe resistance from the more cautious leadership of the established denominations.
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State law could not provide discipline because it met resistance from consciences.
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Legislatures are, of course, dominated by lawyers, and the attempt to limit settlements meets stiff legislative resistance .
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Then she met his eyes and resistance collapsed.
offer
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It offered no resistance and Urquhart was almost thrown off balance when it slipped free.
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He offered no resistance and made no final statement, Kindel said.
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The animals here are at the command of mankind and offer no resistance to their own exploitation.
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Hoard and Graham plowed downfield, with the Raiders offering little resistance .
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She had remained quiet in his grasp, offering no active resistance , aware that it would be useless.
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The demonstrators offered no resistance and none were physically removed from the site.
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However, Wainwright offered stubborn resistance , and responded with some hard hitting from the baseline to level the score at 6-6.
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She took the wastebin and the book from his hands, and he could offer her no resistance .
overcome
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At the beginning of each new paragraph she must summon her strength to overcome enormous resistances .
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Ideas need to be tested by their ability, in combination with events, to overcome inertia and resistance .
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The head alone can not overcome resistances and antagonisms which lie outside school.
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It was ridiculous, but somehow she had never overcome a resistance to working with children.
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Similarly a sense of competition will often overcome the resistance .
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The first two chapters describe activities which will help overcome problems such as learner resistance .
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Work is done by a system when the system exerts a force to overcome resistance .
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Handling by kidney squeeze overcame any further resistance so that it was then possible to secure the model in the Pavlov stock.
provide
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It replaces arms that provide a simple resistance ratio, with much advantage.
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And so, when the enemy charged, we immediately yielded and provided no resistance .
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This also provides some resistance to heat loss.
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It provides the main resistance to the sideways forces of the sail. 2.
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Marbletex smooth contains a tough flexible resin to provide weather resistance .
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By sailing the board at an angle the leeward rail digs in providing more sideways resistance .
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Reeve provided the only resistance until he was run out.
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Together the bladder and the nylon layer provided the chief resistance to pressure difference.
put
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But Manu does not seem to care about being raped, and puts up no resistance .
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The rebels have put up fierce resistance with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.
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Vincent agreed, too low-spirited to put up any resistance .
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And Fiordiligi puts up more resistance than her sister Dorabella, and her brilliant coloratura arias reflect her emotional torment.
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Kulti, 21, put up a little more resistance in the second set, but to no avail.
show
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The boots also showed high water resistance .
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Such factors could have hurt the results in the study that showed cross- resistance .
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The Trespa TopLab has shown resistance to almost all concentrated acids, solvents, non-abrasive industrial cleaning agents and dyestuffs.
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She showed resistance to harsh discipline and a vindictiveness over any prohibitions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
put up a fight/struggle/resistance
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By then I realized it was all too late anyway so I didn't put up a fight.
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Had he, perhaps, put up a fight?
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I bet you did that last night. - Did she put up a fight, then?
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I start running, but my body puts up a fight.
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Instead of dragging everything into the open and putting up a fight, I held on in silence.
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Not only relieved by beating Dallas, but yes, this team can put up a fight.
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The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight.
stubborn resistance/refusal/determination etc
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After two-and-a-half years of stubborn resistance, the Republic collapsed rapidly during the first three months of 1939.
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As the family kept vigil, the children saw at close quarters the stubborn determination of their stepmother.
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However, Wainwright offered stubborn resistance, and responded with some hard hitting from the baseline to level the score at 6-6.
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Perhaps it was her stubborn refusal to see her family broken up that made Mrs Breen appealing to Farnham.
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There was no cheering on the part of the men, but a stubborn determination to obey orders and do their duty.
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What accounted for this stubborn resistance of nationalities to the predicted assimilation?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Any policy that creates unemployment is likely to meet with strong resistance .
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She became one of the symbols of resistance both at home and abroad.
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There has been a lot of resistance to tax increases, even those designed to benefit education.
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Vitamins can build up your resistance to colds and flu.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Almost immediately, however, a fierce nationalist resistance erupted directed by a fiery prophet in the hills of Galilee.
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At the same time he was capable of strong resistance to conformity.
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Because unlike the marmots, the rats had no resistance to the disease that the fleas carried.
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But there has also been a remarkable resistance .
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In most cases, the insulin resistance is due to obesity, especially the accumulation of too much fat within the abdomen.
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Middle-class resistance is therefore the greatest threat to the Republicans' tax-reforming efforts.
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The first line of plant resistance is the surface skin layer, the epidermis, like your own skin.