Word: resistance
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...Britty starts counting on her fingers. Abby helpfully lays down her hand on the table. They count fingers and toes with all the accuracy their six-year-old minds can muster. "Nineteen," they conclude. Then the clearly ancient guest asks, "Guess how old I am." Britty can't resist the chance to tease: "900,000!" she shrieks. The sisters dissolve into giggles. They reach up and slap a celebratory high five...
...think that you have to give this team a chance to get its own identity," she said. "I want to resist putting any sort of labels or expectations on them...
...will eventually have to play a key role in preserving the peace agreement. "Assad's refusal to attend the conference is part of a consistent strategy to use militant surrogates as part of his playing hand in negotiations with Israel," MacLeod says. "This doesn't mean that he will resist efforts to crack down on terrorists, or that he is supporting them more. He is just using this as a political card...
Striking parallels exist between the legacy of Nazi Germany and the heritage of the Confederacy and its rebel flag. The Confederacy's struggle to preserve the "peculiar institution" of slavery was an attempt to resist the democratic ideals sweeping the Western world. While other enlightened nations were rejecting the barbarity of human bondage, the South still clung to the remnants of a shameful past. Likewise, Nazi Germany's visions of world conquest and racial purity were a return to the savageness of the Dark Ages...
...system, when chunks of rock clumped together to form hundreds of small planets known as planetesimals. These objects--hundreds but not thousands of miles across--would frequently smash into one another; then the fragments would reassemble under gravity only to smash again. Eventually, a few grew large enough to resist breaking up, and they swallowed up the smaller pieces and became the planets. The asteroids are believed to be the few pieces that escaped being swallowed--some of them presumably the debris from cosmic smashups and the rest pieces of rock that never were part of planetesimals in the first...