Big banks represent the ultimate in concentrated economic power in today s economies. They are able to resist all meaningful reform that could really change their compensation schemes.

There are no easy ways out of underdevelopment without challenging traditional lifestyles, customs, and social relations. Indeed, religions do not resist the pressures of economic change well.

He did not resist.

And we have to resist to the changes.

Nothing can resist me to yearn for freedom.

There are forces at the heart of our unsustainable way of life that resist change, but we also see signs of hope, some of which we identify in section III of the present report.

99.9 percent of them resist being inducted into prostitution.

Well, you could resist the temptation to announce your goal.

They resist the temptation. They delay the now for later.

Yet a Khatami victory would not have guaranteed change. As president, he faced criticism from reformists for his failure to resist a range of powerful groups that sabotaged economic reform and improvement in Iran s relations with the west.

Democrats, he said, are on a mission to resist and obstruct.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance.

You know, they'll resist that comparison and that's natural, that's human.

Moreover, Congress will resist rolling back any of the long standing economic sanctions against Cuba. President Barack Obama has the authority to take some small steps on his own to normalize ties, but substantial change to US policy requires Congress to act and Congress wants to see fundamental change in Cuba before it does so.

But China s bark was louder than its bite. China s increased financial power may have increased its ability to resist American entreaties, but despite dire predictions, its creditor role has not been sufficient to compel the US to change its policies.

Trump argued that Democrats are on a mission to resist and obstruct.

Well, the average American is going to resist the moral exercise of putting themselves in that person's head and is going to resist the idea that they have much in common with that person.

Those who resist Allah and His Messenger will be among those most humiliated.

Those who resist Allah and His Messenger will be among those most humiliated.

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you.

Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you.

And the right to resist occupation must be understood in its true meaning.

My delegation cannot resist drawing an analogy between today's important topic and Antarctica.

Some might be tempted to resist witness the recent clashes between taxi and Uber drivers in Paris and the lawsuits against the company in many countries. Uber s arrangement may be fraudulent according to the existing legal framework, but that framework will eventually change.

I wish I had the power to resist you, said (Lot), or powerful support.

I wish I had the power to resist you, said (Lot), or powerful support.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Yet when the people of Palestine resist these conditions, they are accused of terrorism.

Structural reforms are usually resisted because of uncertainty about the costs and their distribution. One way to weaken this resistance is to involve not only ministers and heads of government in exchanging information on policy design, but also those who resist change, notably trade unions.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

We must resist that temptation and deal with that issue together with others before us.

We, ACME Ltd., hereby announce that we will resist with all our strength this hostile takeover.

And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

Are you going to be able to resist that if it doesn't have any overt side effects?

He said Would that I had strength to resist you or had some strong support (among you)!

He said Would that I had strength to resist you or had some strong support (among you)!

The international donor community must resist the temptation to move on after the holding of the elections.

It is also important to distinguish terrorism from the legitimate right of peoples to resist foreign occupation.

So Europe is not just an example now to emulate it's an enemy to fight and to resist.

If the inspector did come along, it would be amazing if they were able to resist the bribe.