Example Sentences

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"For several years now, we have been resisting their overreach, including their efforts to muzzle us from speaking out for human rights, for peace," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

More recently, volunteers have been resisting calls to transform Wikipedia into a crypto-based decentralized autonomous organization where users would be required to pay to play by staking tokens for their edits.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2021

But during that same span, ever since the Watergate scandal drove adoption of a tidal wave of state records laws, agencies have been resisting.

From Washington Times • Apr. 10, 2017

Charles Black, an informal adviser to Mr. Romney, said Mr. Romney was prepared to begin reaching out to Mr. Santorum’s conservative and evangelical supporters, who have been resisting Mr. Romney.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2012

If they persevere in a blind opposition, they may find at last that they have been resisting truth, and defrauding their neighbour.

From A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by Gall, James