effective resistance
Americannoun
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Another important shift in the recommendations is the recognition that effective resistance training does not require access to a gym.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
Those dynamics would suggest that organizations like Wikipedia will be forced to adapt to the future that A.I. has begun to create, rather than exert influence over A.I. or mount an effective resistance to it.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
That energy, she argues, must now be transformed into effective resistance and other positive social-change work.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2022
But the excitement of fans who hadn’t heard “Bulls on Parade” live since Rage last performed five years ago shouldn’t be taken as an indication that the song’s anti-authoritarian message was marshaling an effective resistance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2016
If they were scattered about and asleep it would have been impossible to rally them and get them into line for effective resistance.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey
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