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UK
/ɹɪsˈɪstɐ/
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NOUN
- someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take
- someone who offers opposition
How To Use resister In A Sentence
- Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM moi aussi je me demande comment ce linge va resister au mistral! and : is that really prehistoric skull a droite sur la pile de tuile? Corvee - French Word-A-Day
- SOUFFRIR, endurer; résister à; sentir de la douleur. French Conversation and Composition
- The unfortunate fact of this sort of eschatology is that it encourages us to withdraw from the world — to become, in Carl Henry’s words, world-resisters rather than world-changers, a generation of enlightened spectators rather than empowered ambassadors. Second Coming in 2015!
- Resisters showed enormous courage in the face of the atrocious torture used by the Nazis.
- The toughest resistance in Homesh came at a religious seminary, where troops protected by shields used wire cutters to cut lengths of concertina wire that resisters had placed around the roof's perimeter.
- Jets fly low over the area on an almost daily basis, livestock is impounded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the pretense that resisters are "overgrazing" the land, and, due to the special Bennet Freeze clause of P. L.93-531 (which foresaw the possibility of a resistance) Dine people living on what is now Hopi Partitioned Land cannot legally upgrade their housing (i.e. repair a hole in their roof during the winter) without facing the threat of arrest because they no longer legally own the property their families have lived on for centuries. - Front Page
- As I've said, the Campaign and the lawyers working with the resisters use the term deportation, so I follow suit. Common ills replies, i remain baffled (updated) (and upperdated)
- i am a bioillogical weapon of mass derission.dissatisfaction. dissent. disestablishmentarian aspriation. man/woman/child and we are every war resister. just how long do you think it would it take for them to get to me first? Geared2riot Diary Entry
- These resisters are arrested, tried, and often sentenced to serve long terms in prison and jail.
- Itaque si Christiani eis resistere volunt oportet quòd Principes ac rectores terrarum in vnum conueniant, ac de communi consilio eis resistant Habeántque pugnatores arcus fortes et balistais, quas multùm timent sagittásque sufficientes dolabrum quoque de bono ferro, vel securim cum manubrio longo. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini