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A decade or so ago, David Brenner, a professor of radiation biophysics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York began thinking about the problem of drug-resistant bacteria.

And what could her campaign achieve among the Americans most resistant to expanded end-of-life options?

Breeding a resistant strain can take five generations of plants, and 15 years.

Unfortunately, the upper echelons of the Republican Party are resistant to change, but that is what needs to happen.

She's wonderful but she gets up entirely too early every morning and is way too resistant to going to bed at night.

After all, caste is the most resistant feature of our politics, so why not just make it the basis for states formation?

They are the most resistant to the hazel blight of anything that I have worked with so far in 25 years.

The earth is to him no inert, resistant clod; she brings forth of herself.

He was a big man with a terrible amount of resistant force, and it took a great deal of alcohol even to move him.

On the other hand the iron formation, or mother rock of the ore, is hard and resistant and outcrops are numerous.

She pressed her hands tightly against her forehead as if to compel the resistant brain-power.