Sentences with phrase «resist attempts»

I know there are those of you out there that resist my attempts to get Fall under way.

As a seller you just have to ignore their outright lies and marketing shenanigans and resist their attempts to buy low.

It reminded me of how simple this business is and how we must vigorously resist all attempts to make it complicated.

The lack of evidence - based interventions for maltreatment may have led some clinicians to rely on so - called holding therapies, in which children are forced to make physical contact with their caregiver although they strongly resist these attempts.

They may challenge their parents frequently and resist attempts to manage their behavior, appearing to be triggered by insignificant things or by nothing at all.

You raise an important point: as long as a law firm sells its lawyers» time, it will resist any attempts to reduce its inventory, i.e., the number of hours available to sell to clients.

Our municipal clients often resist any attempts to settle cases because their integrity as police officers, municipal officials and school teachers is impugned.

She continues to resist attempts to have her attend here for a medical examination.

They routinely ignore the rules, and resist attempts by outside experts to gain access to data and studies.

We should all resist the attempts of those who try to push us into the pro or anti greenhouse camps.

If we want any chance at preventing catastrophic climate change, we have to resist his attempts to put coal on life support.

Mediated by the processes of reproduction and re-presentation, it is difficult to locate these things in time and substance; the works resist attempts at deciphering.

«As a part of our security efforts, we have designed Destiny 2 for PC to resist all attempts from external applications to insert code into the game client.»

People resist attempts to accept financial punishment when they know they have done nothing morally or ethically wrong.

People who care about the cats and know their habits will resist attempts to starve the cats or trap the cats if they're going to be removed and killed.

Difficult working conditions, low status, gender bias, and teaching in hierarchical conditions often prompt teachers to look for alternative work and / or resist any attempts to enhance increased professionalism — such as professional development — especially when teachers are not paid for extra hours or when they see professional development as not resulting in either improvements in their own practice or leading to promotion.

As the Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion of the UK, Churchill must resist attempts by his own political party and an initially sceptical King George VI, to stand firm against the dangers facing his country and not buckle to the Nazis.

When you are putting in plenty of effort to close the gap, it can cause your man to resist any attempts to make things better.

Scientists believe that the average person has a set point range of about ten to twenty pounds, meaning that there is a range at which the body is comfortable and will resist attempts to change that weight.

Perhaps as a result of their unique genetic program, adult beta cells strongly resist attempts to nudge them into cell division.

Finance Officers at the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to stand firm and resist attempts by Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) who may push them to spend outside the Assembly 39... source: modernghana.com

The Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State has urged Nigerians to resist attempts by the All Progressives Congress - led Federal Government to scuttle the nation's democracy.

He served notice that the NDC minority caucus in Parliament will fiercely resist any attempts to implement the policy at all cost for political expediency.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Minority in Parliament, has warned that it will vehemently resist attempts to sell some thermal plants of the Volta River Authority (VRA).

Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan said Friday that he would resist attempts to renew the tax, and last year pushed for reductions in income taxes for middle - income taxpayers.

They have accused the government of intimidation and vowed to resist attempts to use the security agencies to witch - hunt them.

However, Cope has called upon all South Africans to resist any attempts «to make South Africa the home of last resort of those leaders who have violated the human rights of the citizens of their very own countries».

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) plans to resist any attempts by government to deny workers their benefits and remuneration.

The minority further vowed to resist any attempts by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to overburden the ordinary Ghanaian tax payer.

(This can, of course, also be true of «bottom - right» groups who, once an agenda has been agreed, may resist attempts by outsiders to renegotiate it.)

Explain that there will be no talking, and resist any attempts at conversation with a single phrase, such as, «it's bedtime.»

However GFH should ensure that he isn't able to meddle in the future of the club, and resist all attempts to do deals which may see one of of our favourite sons sold off in an attempt to fund the purchase of a player who will only have his head turned upwards to see another howitzer coming his way.

But Zahavi faces an uphill challenge, with Bayern not short of funds and expected to resist any attempts to lure their prized goal scorer away.

They hate the Muslims because the Muslims RESIST their attempts to coerce conversions.

Rubio also says he'd protect the on - demand economy, as represented by Airbnb, Uber, and other tech innovators, and resist any attempts to regulate it.

We understand criticizing a famous artist is a good way to draw attention to those goals... we will vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man» pic.twitter.com/ByC9SR 0vtD

I have already opened my big fat mouth about this a couple of times here, but I'm finding it hard to resist another attempt to make myself clear.

I resist your attempt to control and I push back and challenge you to consider what it is that is driving you to be a pastor — is it out of desire to dominate others and make the weak, or is it a calling from God that you are being equipped by God for, not trusting in your understanding, but in submission to God and in him directing your steps (no need to answer).

In resisting Communist advances in Greece and Turkey, a much - scorned and widely underestimated American president announced in 1947 that it now «must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures....

The sad part of this story, after the victims, is that it will add rhetoric to the liberal fiction (like they tried with McVeigh) of resisting any attempt to link terrorism with Islam.

This absolute of physics has thus far not only resisted all attempts at «relativization», but, if I am not mistaken, it tends to find its counterpart in a current moving in the opposite sense, positive and constructive, which is revealed by the study of the earth's biological past: the ascent of the Universe towards zones of increasing improbability and personality.

To turn a particular view of inspiration, i. e., inerrancy, into the «essence» of Christianity is to confuse one's priorities concerning the Christian faith.64, While maintaining the doctrine of sola scriptura, evangelicals must resist any attempt to elevate one inference from its subsidiary doctrine of inspiration to a position of ascendancy over solus Christus, sola gratia, sola fide, and sola scriptura itself.

And skor — the point for a lot of us is that religion does not set the rules for us and we will resist any attempt to return to a society where some religion thinks that it can.

The rest of us will be deliciously diverse in our sampling life's smorgasbord — taking snippets of theology that suit us, and resisting all attempts to «systematize» our beliefs.

Eugene Rabinowitch comments on Bridgman's article: «Does he expect to find satisfaction, as he contemplates the radioactive ruins of Harvard Yard, in the thought that he, at least; had resisted all attempts to saddle him with responsibility that was not his?»

He concluded that the church could maximize the practical advantages of pluralism and minimize its dangers by resisting all attempts to erect an established church (whether de lege or de facto) and also by cultivating a somewhat tribalistic spirit among its members.

This unconstrained communication makes possible, and in fact requires, ideological pluralism and at the same time resists attempts at ideological conformity.

Henry initially resisted attempts to translate the Bible into English and William Tyndale (c1494 - 1536) was executed for his efforts.

The Church Fathers resisted the attempt at parting from the Old Testament and chose the more difficult way: keeping it and interpreting it as more or less clearly pointing to its fulfillment in Jesus.

There is good reason to be skeptical of any religious spokesperson or political representative who resists attempts to disseminate information» especially when that information has the power to change minds.