Word: resistance
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Don’t be afraid of bullies, individual or institutional. If you resist those who try to dominate, you may find that allies come to your side unexpectedly to lend their support. Confronting the abuse and centralization of power may also help you discover your own strengths to recognize the reality and glory of your own existence. Take important risks but avoid trivial ones. You may choose to risk dying as a photojournalist covering wars, but cross the street carefully and get plenty of exercise while back at home...
Mostly, though, the film runs on Liam's devilish nerve, as well as our feelings of foreboding on his behalf. As we follow him deeper and deeper into his life of crime, we sense that, smart and daring though he is, he will not be able to resist his own heedlessness, those violent flashes of temper that wipe all clever calculations out of his brain...
...When Harvard decides it wants someone, it’s hard to resist,” Simpson wrote. “And why would one want to? I have been working in an underfunded university system for 22 years...
Despite the chilling stories he’d heard, Wagner—who later campaigned against the Vietnam War—didn’t resist the draft when he was called up after graduation...
...TIME: So you intend to wipe out GAM? RYAMIZARD: It will be impossible for us to get rid of them 100%. But I'm not saying just kill them. Many have surrendered, and they have not been killed. If they are armed, and resist and fire, they will be killed. Weapons have to be faced with weapons. Soldiers everywhere do the same thing. What people don't understand is that the more we leave them alone, the more victims there are, not the other way around. More people killed, more police killed, more soldiers killed. What country allows this...