Definition of Resisting

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Definition of Resisting
	Resisting of Resist Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium. Related Definitions: As, Making, Medium, Of, Opposing, Resist, Resistance, Resisting

Resisting Quotations

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Zig Ziglar

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Franklin P. Jones

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
Charles Stanley

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Thomas Huxley

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
James L. Buckley

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.
John Blair

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
Fred Barnes

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
Hermann von Helmholtz

Resisting Translations

resisting in German is erwehrend, widerstehend

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