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I have resisted giving my recommendation because there was
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Theo tried to pick him up but the man resisted
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It resisted, and he held on to the bulkhead straps and kicked at it with one heel until Chief Horcheese thumped it once with her artificial fist and a few hundred kilograms of force
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Fortunately, Kara strenuously resisted this attempt to get rid of her as, when the small vehicle materialised, there was a letter addressed to Kara sitting in it
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These traditional settlements in the mountains have resisted all influence from the outside world to this day
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The documentary idea was tempting, but the young couple resisted the old man’s inducements
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Omi resisted, but took the banana
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’ Alastair commented, instinctively ducking to avoid the beam placed just at head height half way up the stairs, ‘It’s lovely the way you’ve resisted the temptation to modernise it out of all recognition
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‘He better not be calling me simple,’ Kelvin thought, but resisted the urge to bellow that out
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resisted and evolve natural or synthetic resistance to it
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resisted the old man’s inducements
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setting fire to wagons and beating any who resisted
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He reached out and grabbed her knickers, ripping them off in one movement, scoring her skin in the process as the elastic resisted the force momentarily
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Johnson resisted the surge of panic that gripped the back of his neck
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Buttworst resisted the urge to light a cigarette
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Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the workmen, who sometimes, too, without any provocation of this kind, combine, of their own accord, to raise tile price of their labour
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Many of the smaller chunks resisted gravity's pull, oozing to the floor much slower than the larger bits of flesh
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So many have resisted
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She resisted a
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She was a kindhearted woman, but -- as it usually was when in her presence -- Ome resisted the urge to regurgitate his recent air-sifted particles through his kochlar
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resisted to Nietzsche or Kant, how much of what
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But no, I resisted taking on the burden of hauling Chloe’s soul upon my back
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The Greeks, as the Romanians too, have resisted for
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“Don’t imagine he’s ever resisted an opportunity to complain
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I was tempted to hurl it into the back of his skull, but I resisted
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How she ached for him! He looked so handsome in his formal attire and she resisted the urge to run to him and kiss him full on those lips! She blushed at the thought and turned her face away from him so that he wouldn’t see the redness spreading up from her neck to her ears
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It was something that he too had contemplated, but in turn had resisted as much as possible
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She resisted at first, but eventually gave in and leaned against her comforter, letting the tears come
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She had a craving to eat one of the pears, but she resisted
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The creature’s hard chitin armor resisted the brunt of his blows, and the beast took the opportunity to turn around and thrust at the man
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“No, my love,” she said as she resisted
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A flicker of a smile played around Mr Snickerty's lips, but he resisted the temptation of an open display of mirth
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Husim knew the voice, the eyes, the rather familiar form of the one person in the cosmos who had resisted, spoiled and upturned his plans at nearly every turn since first abducting her from that very spot all those years ago
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It had coated their HEPOs with great efficiency, and resisted light efforts to shake it off
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She found that once again her muscles were stiff from the cold and resisted her efforts to move
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She resisted the urge to run her shaking hand over her heart in an effort to push it back into her chest where it belonged
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Chris resisted the urge to say anything else as he knew any comment was likely to be followed by his fist
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He started to take my clothes off I tried to fight him but he held a butchers knife to my throat and told me he would kill me if I resisted
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She wore thick white stockings and her blue leather boots were fur lined, but still she barely resisted the urge to shiver
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He resisted the urge to blush with some difficulty
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None of them could have resisted the desire to wield for long
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Has any wielder ever resisted the Power for a long period of time voluntarily?”
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He screamed in agony; he couldn’t have resisted the urge to cry out in pain if he tried
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But if he resisted now, would he spend the rest of his life wrestling with the regret of wasting their last moments?
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But the Darangi team resisted the onslaught, at first without even retaliating
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Did blackmailing the most powerful man in the empire count as an event? Amaranthe resisted the urge to ignore the woman and hunt for a backdoor
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Amaranthe resisted the urge to roll her eyes
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There is not the slightest doubt that if the Expedition had been left to the Houssas and native levies, the Ashantis would have resisted to the last; for it was only on the arrival of the Ansahs in Kumassi, with highly coloured reports of the rapid advance of thousands of white troops, that Prempeh decided not to fight unless it were forced on him, or he was molested
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wood resisted the axes as if it were iron, and only dented them,
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She resisted for a moment then relaxed
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“I tried Zawyat, but the boy resisted it,” Hollowcrest said
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Today Cuban obedience is enforced by a power too strong to be resisted but any form of enforcement ultimately creates resentment
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Before I could be accused of being a long haired liberal and worse we handed the crocodile over to the local constable for his soon to be father in law and left the scene to explain to the much amused lieutenant that “(1) yes we did indeed arrested a f crocodile and no (2) our pants are not f wet front or rear but torn by the vicious claws (read feet) of the crocodile who (3) did not want to be f arrested and (4) resisted in fact until we (5) fatherly persuaded him f otherwise
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Then they resisted arrest
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They’ve resisted everything
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Typically he resisted a bit which is exactly what we needed to have a fatherly talk
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He'd resisted at first, annoyed that Skelda had chosen that moment to summon him– just when he was on the point of discovering what Darkburst had seen in the carvings
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When she resisted and tried to escape, he shot her with his gun
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I could hear him banging and crashing around in the building but resisted the temptation of going in to see what he was doing
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The village successfully resisted the city’s amalgamation bid, whereas the former Lennox Township hadn’t
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He resisted the temptation to skip, or show off his dancing skills
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Curling my fingers into fists at his infuriating habit of stating the bloody obvious, I resisted the urge to curl them around his throat
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Huge regions of the south resisted the Confederacy, recognizing it as unjust and tyrannical
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She resisted, then, with a throaty whine, slowly lowered her hands as she inched the incline of her face upwards
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Putting my coat on the rack, I resisted the impulse to simply drop it over my luggage
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” I resisted the urge to add “Duh”
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The Poles and Russians making up the bulk of the population had resisted any repatriation, but now they were being forced to depart, either being placed on eastbound trains, or assigned to other camps established by the UN closer to the larger cities in the British and American Zones
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She resisted the temptation to spring forward, with her razor sharp talons bared
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Indeed, the procrastinators had seemed eager enough to take him by force had he resisted
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Amonas had resisted the idea in more depth by pointing out that even if that were so, they had not heard or seen the passing of such a thing ever since they arrived here, which would imply that whatever that thing was, it did not make frequent overpasses
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I resisted it
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The Bible, seen as a kind of history, tells of Adam, being driven out of Eden for not having resisted the serpent’s temptation, going east into a harsh world where sustenance was gained only by the sweat of his brow
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However, she resisted and kept to the thought of Elior; let him be all she thought about
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However, she resisted the urge to walk backwards
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He wiggled his toes and fingers, rubbed his sore chest and throat, shivered from top to toe, and resisted the urge to be sick
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Had he kidded himself? Had she been aware all along, and had not resisted?
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I resisted them, but that was mostly because I remembered the peanut butter cookies I had seen in the metal canister, and some of those clearly had my name on them
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” Newer enlightened interpretations tended to be resisted as apostate corruptions of original belief, and additional “visions” tended to be treated in a “capital” way
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The Gnostics had subscribed from the beginning to a similar position in having recognized Jesus as one of their “Divine Beings,” but they resisted the placing of the Christian God at the top of their cosmological hierarchy
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But change, no matter how dogmatically it is resisted, does come, and history, including prehistory, is strewn with the remains of belief systems that could not or would not accommodate themselves to an ever-changing understanding of that sought-after Presence
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Any new understanding that tended to destabilize the status quo ante and the prerogatives of established authority were resisted ever more persistently
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Allerton, who resisted and kicked him
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“His critics think he should have resisted more, instead of resigning himself to his fate
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“Maybe it wasn’t relevant before, Tobias,” Niles says, “but it is now that you’ve resisted answering the question
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Tai’s earlier report of the soporific drink clearly incapacitated those who might have resisted a tattoo, but here was a whole society
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Most converts were previously Christians; the Jews resisted
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Of course, they resisted this policy and their leaders were arrested
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to his eyes, but resisted
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But he was certain all older people resisted change
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None of them resisted joining us
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It seemed that both tribes had fully expected us to come and, having heard what happened to those who resisted us in the north, had decided not to ask for trouble
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At first, she resisted but it was pointless
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Amelia resisted the urge and let her pass
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When we reached the first town, we were neither resisted nor welcomed
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“Really? I thought they resisted the Khanate
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“Well, you have some odd bacteria on you that resisted the decontamination treatment
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The Empire always dealt with it in the same way; the military was called in and anyone who resisted them was killed
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I wanted to reach out and find out what was wrong, but I resisted
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With all those odds against her, how could she have resisted him?
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laboratory’s entrance, and resisted the pulsating urge to unleash