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resistence - definition and meaning
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Perhaps her piece de resistence is her truck, which is covered in 10,000 corks.
Cork dork: Ten cool things to do with leftover wine corks | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
Belem Proaño of Temas Para Debatir [es] agrees that refusing to be evaluated has a negative impact on the teachers and that this resistence is being seen as resistence to change, which is something that the country is going through:
Global Voices in English » Ecuador: Evaluating Public School Teachers 2009
Tue 10/13/09 10: 16 PM resistence is not so much futile as … pointless.
Alynda Wheat's Beat Cop: Having fun storming the 'Castle' | EW.com 2009
And, to paraphrase Chris Hedges, a culture of resistence is a force that gives us meaning.
Disobey Every Day | ATTACKERMAN 2008
I think his point could have been more gently put in the form of the so-called "Serenity Prayer" about knowing when resistence is futile.
Rural Mexico revisited 2005
Unlike the first, however, in these last transitions he meets with no resistence from the philanthropies of his nature, but encouraged and stimulated by the complete accord of emotion and reason.
Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln 1865
Being that you’re an austrian jew, and recently arrived at our country, clearly you’re unaware of all of the french who gave their lives in resistence to the german nazis, and in the effort to save jews like your mother.
Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers 2005
#316 -” Being that you†™ re an austrian jew, and recently arrived at our country, clearly you†™ re unaware of all of the french who gave their lives in resistence to the german nazis, and in the effort to save jews like your mother.”
Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers 2005
Is weight training aka resistence training an effective weight loss tool or more effective then cardio?
Photo food diary Wednesday Dec 3, 2008 | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
However, the Iraqi government is claiming that Raghad in interviews to the Arabic media has supported the what she is calling the resistence in Iraq.
CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2006 2006
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