It is almost a certainty that he will get resistance from the regional bank presidents regardless of what he proposes.
They understood that resistance to the state must be based on more than unhappiness over a particular law or self-interest.
Because all elected officials want, in the first instance, the path of least resistance to reelection.
Inertial mass is the amount of matter in an object, the measure of the resistance an object has when a force pushes it.
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The crew of the "Liberty" was fairly surprised, and made no resistance.
The selective effect of them is in the resistance to the fashions or subjection to them.
Suddenly they rushed upon him, and he was pinioned ere he could make the least resistance.
But our lads were not to be daunted by any resistance, however desperate.
He not only encountered no resistance, but the population, regarding him as a liberator, received him with acclamations of joy.
mid-14c., from Old French resistance, earlier resistence, from Late Latin resistentia, from present participle stem of Latin resistere "make a stand against, oppose" (see resist). Meaning "organized covert opposition to an occupying or ruling power" [OED] is from 1939. Electromagnetic sense is from 1860. Path of least resistance is from 1825, originally a term in science and engineering.
resistance re·sis·tance (rĭ-zĭs'təns)
The capacity of an organism to defend itself against a disease.
The capacity of an organism, a tissue, or a cell to withstand the effects of a harmful physical or environmental agent.
The opposition of a body or substance to current passing through it, resulting in a change of electrical energy into heat or another form of energy.
In psychoanalysis, a process in which the ego opposes the conscious recall of repressed unpleasant experiences.