Sentences with phrase «against resistance from»

They seemed to offer a hopeful glimmer of how an urban district could win out against resistance from teachers unions and community pressures by sticking with student - centered policies.

Ofsted was not set up to push through education reforms against resistance from unions, nor was it established to push any particular party political agenda.

I have come up against resistance from theists who think that such a combination is impossible, which displays an unfortunate ignorance of how nontheistic thinking has developed over the years.

Not exact matches

One tribal elder, Juma Gul, told the Times that «the Taliban escaped from the area last night and left us to ISIS with our women and children... there was no resistance by the Taliban against ISIS, and local tribes had no way to fight them anymore, so we just escaped.»

There is tremendous hope that the results obtained from these sites will help us turn the tide against antimalarial resistance in the coming years.

According to a report from Javelin Strategy & Research, most Americans are reticent to mix personal financial information with social networking; the report found a 4 - to - 1 resistance against receiving updates about promotions and discounts, to a 9 - to - 1 resistance against reviewing or receiving account balances.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders advancing the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) and Dakota Access (DAPL) pipelines, prompting a tsunami of outrage and vows of bold resistance from the Indigenous activists, climate campaigners, and countless others who have fought against these projects.

«Trade it from both sides against support and resistance.»

While it is true that Jesus offered no resistance to physical attacks against himself, his love did not prevent him from using the most aggressive and blistering invective against those who thought they held a «corner» in religion.

Solzhenitsyn, on the other hand, has given up seeking the theoretical high ground from which to build a new philosophical system and instead articulates a strategy of resistance against any and all metaperspectives.

6, a certain Judas of Galilee had led an abortive rising against the Roman government, an underground resistance movement remained in being, and broke out sporadically from time to time, until at last they succeeded in precipitating a full - scale rebellion in AD.

Walter Cardinal Kasper, who heads the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, put it very well last May when he said that the Catholic Church had weakened itself by «cutting itself off from its Jewish roots for centuries... a weakness that became evident in the altogether too feeble resistance against the persecution of the Jews.»

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

It chooses and sets in order... [Creation is the] conflict of energy and resistance, a struggle of life against death, from which the word takes its impetus....

The objections to fasting — the resistance of the flesh and «evangelical liberty» — must not deter one from fasting as a form of discipline.31 When the Christian has failed in obedience, is guilty of sin against others, has lost the joy of Christian grace, and has come to little or no prayer, he needs to fast and pray.

The Pentagon's long - awaited study on its policy against gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military found that repeal of the controversial policy would face resistance from some service members on religious grounds, but that repeal would not require anyone to change their personal views or religious beliefs.

It prohibited Korean ministers from reading the story of Exodus, the story of another enslaved people which rose up against another imperialist force; and from reading the book of Revelation, the story of passive resistance against the Roman Empire.

These same beliefs and symbols articulated by the New England Puritans merged with parallel, similar, and, at time, even dissimilar values and beliefs from other sources to produce a new ideology which formed and shaped the resistance of the American colonies against Crown and Parliament.

All grades combine high, adjustable shrinkage from zero up to 60 percent and a very high barrier against oxygen and moisture with outstanding transparency, high gloss and — despite the comparatively low thickness — very high tear strength and puncture resistance.

Armed with 20 years of research (and with a little help from popular media), cities have recently begun mounting stiff resistance against demanding teams.

They said: Pep Guardiola is desperate to add the Chilean to his squad — but has come up against stubborn resistance from Arsenal.

The player continues to protest his innocence, and an investigation into his conviction by the Criminal Cases Review Commission is under way, but he has been met with unwavering resistance from numerous football fans, while 160,000 people signed a petition against his return.

«The Akufo - Addo government is yet to see the very least of resistance against the Ghana - US Military Agreement from the Minority.

Paddy Ashdown has hit out at the chancellor and his Tory Cabinet colleagues» arguments against the alternative vote, as more evidence of Vince Cable's resistance from within the government emerges.

We must not only effect profound changes in our fight against corruption, but must also overcome the more or less open resistance from individuals or organised interests who make gains from this evil status quo.

After the U.S. pullout from the Iran deal, the influential weekly Der Spiegel called on Germany to become part of the «resistance against America» and pictured Trump on its cover as a yellow - haired middle finger to the continent.

It started as a scrappy grass - roots protest movement against Trump, but now the so - called resistance is attracting six - and seven - figure checks from major liberal donors, posing an insurgent challenge to some of the left's most venerable institutions — and the Democratic Party itself.

Enck talked about the fight for clean water in Hoosick Falls, the resistance from local residents against the Empire State Plaza microgrid in Albany, and her recent visit to the U.S. Virgin Islands in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria.

In recent weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio's policies have run up against an age - old forces of inertia and resistance in the city, especially one that springs forth in policy debates on everything from housing to bike lanes to school desegregation and even closing down Rikers Island jails.

In the fall of 2006, the FDA's veterinary advisory committee voted against approving cefquinome, citing concerns that resistance to this vital class of drug could spread from bacteria in beef to hospital superbugs that respond to little else.

In the last three years, Byamukama and graduate student Krishna Acharya have collected soil samples from 28 East River counties to determine which resistance gene sources are still effective against the predominant races of Heterodera glycine, or soybean cyst nematode, in South Dakota.

We've already moved away from using quinine to treat cases as the malaria parasite has become more resistant to it, but if further drug resistance were to develop against our most valuable malaria drug, artemisinin, we would be facing a grave situation.

The authors said their results, which they have made publicly available, constitute an invaluable resource to help clinicians predict which chemotherapies will be most effective against tumor cells with particular genetic mutations, and how to rationally combine therapies to prevent cancers from developing resistance.

In September, health workers moved the Korubo to a camp farther from the Matis village, to protect against illnesses to which they have no natural resistance.

He says that the extracts from their fibroblasts do contain the sticky substance, but that in spalacids it does not seem to play a key role in the animals» natural resistance to cancer or activity against cancer cells in the lab.

Then they staged laboratory battles in petri dishes, pitting each rattlesnake's venom against resistance factors in the blood serum of 12 squirrels — one from its home turf and one from each of the other locations.

At the same time, the scientists conducted several greenhouse experiments to assess, as accurately as possible, the characteristics of each species — from seed mass and germination rate to the speed of growth, the competitive ability and the resistance against herbivores, like caterpillars.

The immune activation from the CAR cells was also met with resistance mechanisms, including an upregulation of immunosuppressive pathways which may work against the patient and for the tumor, the researchers found.

Laboratory tests indicate that the eCAPs work well against biofilms, which are bacterial communities that develop very high levels of resistance to antibiotics by working together to protect the film's inner bacteria from traditional treatments.

An especially important property from the start was possibly that the mixture was effective against a wide variety of fungi, as no specialized pathogens in beewolves are known to have evolved resistance to these antibiotics.

And even if there were any, for example due to a bacterium changing its surface structures to prevent the virus from attaching, the new technology makes it possible to develop a suitable phage against which a bacterium has not yet developed resistance.

This indicates that the innovation potential has been substantial for fungicides with new modes of action and excellent performance, not least because some of the older groups have suffered from an erosion of efficacy against some important pathogens due to the emergence of resistance [see also FRAC 2007 (1)-RSB-.

We have used three variations of a strategy known as pathogen - derived resistance (PDR), whereby fragments of DNA from the pathogen are inserted into the plant genome providing it with resistance against the pathogen.

In addition to his basic science programs, Jones has isolated and is isolating new resistance genes against potato late blight from wild relatives of potato, with the goal of using them to deliver market - favoured potato varieties that are protected from late blight by genes, rather than by chemistry.

She is registred to the National Order of Biologists in the province of Palermo; collaboration in research project from 2012 to 2015 at the Department of Biopathology and Biotechnology, University of Palermo, focusing the study on the identification of molecules capable to modulate intracellular metabolic pathways for the prevention and treatment of infectious, tumor and degenerative disease, in collaboration with Prof. Angela Santoni, University of Rome; collaboration in research project in 2011 at the hospital «Villa Sofia Cervello» of Palermo to study methods can cure the genetic defect that causes thalassemia through genetic engineering; she studies different mechanisms of the differentiation and the activation of human gammadelta T cells as effector cells of the immune response against cancer and infectious diseases; she investigates about the identification and development of biomarkers of resistance and susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; Valentina Orlando has published 13 papers in peer reviewed journals and 3 comunications at national and international congress.

While investigating the side effects of antibiotics and how bacteria can develop resistance to them, researchers from MIT and Harvard have found that the drugs can actually work against the body, weakening the immune system's ability to fight off the bugs.

ND4BB is part of the «Action plan against the rising threats from Antimicrobial Resistance» adopted by the European Commission in answer to the Council Conclusions and European Parliament resolution to «establish an EU - wide plan to combat AMR».

Small amounts of physical activity can offer health benefits that protect against insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes and can result from a high - fat diet.

Like oats, barley contains beta - glucan, which helps guard against insulin resistance (a condition marked by diminished ability to remove glucose from the bloodstream).

The bias against carbs in general is based on faulty science, though there is some truth to there being insulin resistance - which can come about from REFINED carbs and fat, as well as little or no exercise!