Sentences with phrase «resist efforts»

NAR supports actions at the state level to strengthen the rights of brokers to make these determinations and will resist efforts at the federal level to weaken those rights.

Some clients can't resist efforts to «win over» a divorce professional and feel morally superior to their soon - to - be-ex partner.

So far, the story is a familiar one: a child wants to maximize her freedom by getting permission from the parent she thinks is more «open» to her new experiences, and the parents close rank and resist her efforts to divide and conquer.

As she notes, the lower - self (where fears reside trying to protect us from re-traumatization) will resist efforts at self - reflection, because self - reflection brings us face - to - face with our hurt and our fears; with our trauma, with our self - criticism and fundamental insecurities.

These couples resist your efforts to help, are more difficult to engage in therapy and often don't respond to even the most logical treatment goals.

They can't stop arguing, want quick results and they resist your efforts to help.

But I believe that every institution works they way it does because someone benefits from the status quo, and that someone is most likely in power and will resist any efforts at change.

Music labels battle Apple over iTunes pricing and resist efforts to release music at a higher bitrate, fearful of letting go.

Though blogging, Web 2.0 applications, and user - generated content sites represent the still - wild, untamed frontier of the Internet, most users would not resist efforts to settle the laws of this territory.

Support full implementation of the Clean Air Act and resist any efforts to weaken, delay or block progress toward a healthier future for all Americans.»

Today comes Part III of Ken Ward's response to «The Death of Environmentalism,» in which Ken argues that environmentalists should resist efforts to make environmental justice the core tenant of the movement and instead refocus on the most successful weapon in their arsenal: protest.

Meanwhile, the president whose administration released the report maintains that climate change is a hoax and he and his EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, resist efforts to address it.

Today comes Part III of Ken Ward's response to «The Death of Environmentalism,» in which Ken argues that environmentalists should resist efforts to make environmental justice the core tenant of the movement and instead refocus on the most successful weapon...

Instead of coming up with a structure that can resist efforts and loads, they came up with one that can be traversed by the environment that surrounds it.

Klein has also become a contributor to The Atlantic; his latest piece, in August, denounced «ideological foes of business» contribution to the public good» who resist efforts of private firms to sell innovative products to public schools.

Those who resist these efforts to achieve the impossible are accused of racial bias, insensitivity, «blaming the victim,» and indulging in «racialized discourse.»

The hope is that educators and systems can institutionalize MTSS in ways that preserve the positive changes, and instill resilience to resist efforts to revert back to the old ways of doing things, and ultimately improve outcomes for all students!

They'll resist your efforts at weaning.

Most Democrats, in particular, would be committing political suicide by trying to alter the unions» current role in public education, and they will resist any efforts to do so.

Together they create a toxic environment that can resist efforts to heal and close a chronic wound.

It's not surprising that flowers stubbornly resist our efforts to overhaul their wardrobes.

Rush Holt, the chief executive officer of AAAS, thanked each of the House members, representing both parties, for signing letters to their respective leadership, urging them to resist efforts that would limit access to higher education by eliminating graduate tuition waivers.

«I call on members of Peoples» Democratic Party (PDP), Civil Society Groups, International community and well - meaning individuals to come to the aid of Okai and resist the efforts aimed at scuttling his release after a Federal High Court, Lokoja granted him bail penultimate week.»

Lastly, as a citizen, I want push for change on the national level, re-prioritizing how we help the parents of young children and making sure our public educational institutions are strong enough to resist the efforts to fragment communities into haves and have - nots.

Your daughter might resist your efforts, too.

One will be tempted to resist efforts to negotiate a new covenant as simply an abrogation of the firm's previous commitments.

If persons are to grow, the therapist must resist their efforts to project responsibility by saying, in effect, «I am weak, confused, helpless.

The self - righteousness of the great powers will resist efforts at greater justice.

Does not sin, like paralysis in its more severe forms, resist all efforts at cures?

Earlier this year the DMV proposed new restrictions on self - driving car tests, but companies like Apple, Tesla, Ford, and GM resisted this effort.

The video shows the woman, who claims to be a professor, repeatedly asking officers what they were doing and saying they had ripped her pants as she resisted their efforts to remove her.

According to Variety, Harvey Weinstein has been «furiously resisting efforts to force him out [of the Weinstein Company] permanently,» going so far as to continue to appear at work after he said that he would be taking a leave of absence.

Although it seems that the human body resists our efforts to modify the endocrinological processes, we may be approaching the development of agents that mimic our body's own inhibitions to conception and implantation.

Theologians such as Tom Driver resisted efforts to reduce drama to «tools» which were available for «use» in speading a message or «selling» Christian doctrine.

It was translated into evolutionary and social terms, though it resisted efforts to cast it into such strange forms.

In their reaction against the modern responses to diversity, some resist any effort to identify a common good for the society as a whole.

But bear in mind that a small percentage of your congregation will turn into strange alien beings, resisting all efforts to join in, relax and have fun.»

Having grown up in the disproportionately Christian state of Kerala in southern India and studied at a church - run school, Narayanan condemned the Hindu nationalists thought to be responsible for violence against Muslims and resisted efforts to shift the secular education system.

Now in his sixties, Konchalski has held firm to his no - frills faith, and equally resisted all efforts to expand his business or update it with high - tech communications.

In this regard it is important to recall that it was these Christians who had resisted the efforts of the Diamper Synod to impose on them Portuguese customs of succession.

Realistically, this means resisting efforts to further weaken national and regional economies.

The collision of white often made it difficult for judges to keep score when the action was fast, but a few national governing bodies — most adamantly that of Japan, which claimed (among other arguments) that white was a symbol of purity vital to the sport — resisted efforts to allow other colors in the international arena.

Don't be surprised if your teen resists your efforts to talk about cutting.

If you stop trying to manage your child's misbehavior, they won't be so busy resisting your efforts.

White people have notoriously moved their children away from diverse neighborhoods for school, and have resisted efforts to mix their districts.

Senate GOP lawmakers since the passage of the SAFE Act have largely resisted efforts to pass new gun control measures, though pushes to repeal the law have faltered.

He said: «I am expressing here today my profound gratitude to successive generations of this great Elephant Family who have stood for freedom and justice all through our country's history, sometimes at great personal cost, and who have resisted all efforts to dismember and divide their ranks.

While they do lobby Congress with the goal of resisting efforts to streamline the process (you can't e-file on your own, for example; you have to go through a licensed preparer, and they do make sure the IRS information is limited only to help filling out forms), the real, simple answer is:

And for a nation about to deal with the terrifying powers of an executive branch run amok, New York state lawmakers and voters would be best to resist this effort at every turn.

The city's Department of Investigation is conducting a review of the firing of a senior official who says he resisted the efforts of de Blasio and his aides to help a campaign donor in a multimillion - dollar lease dispute with a city agency.