Word: resistance
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...Throughout the next decade, and especially during the 1959 rebellion, Tibetans tried to resist Communist “liberation,” but to no avail. Like the Soviets did in response to the 1956 Hungarian revolution against the Stalinist regime, the Chinese army consistently crushed revolutionary movements. Amidst the violence, the Dalai Lama went into exile in India, where his government-in-exile still resides...
...letter inside accused her and her colleagues of grading students too harshly, said Dr. Mohammed, who is still afraid to have her name appear in print. The implication of the threat, she explained, was that holding students to high classroom standards meant they had less time to resist American invaders...
What's remarkable, in many ways, is the freshmen's ability to resist the pressure and allure of endorsing - both of which are enormous. How does a first-term Congressman find the strength to say no to Hillary Clinton, or her husband, former President Bill Clinton? Or the veritable rock star that Barack Obama has become? Any one of whom, more likely than not, raised money and campaigned...
...seems to resist...
...considered properly popular unless he is admitted to the company of Madame Tussaud's celebrities," the attraction's eponymous founder, the French-born Marie Tussaud told the British periodical Punch in 1849. But she couldn't resist including a smattering of unpopular characters, too. The so-called Chamber of Horrors still displays an anonymous Sans-Culottes standing close to the decapitated heads of some of the French Revolution's aristocratic victims. Nearby a lifeless Jean-Paul Marat bleeds into his bath...