Word: resistance
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...what about those on the right who fear and might resist black majority rule...
...look for the new (Theo- Fleury- Drury line next year in the Suddledome (how can Doug Riesbrough and the Flames' coaching staff resist?), pushing the biscuit up ice in the new Western Conference...
Some friends fear the hoopla will prove impossible for West to resist. "You've got to understand one thing about Cornel," says a colleague. "There's a part of him that wants to be the next H.N.I.C. It's not just white folks holding him up." Says Cone: "One of the best ways to destroy someone is to expose and promote him. It's very hard to be critical of a system that makes a hero...
Bosnia's Serbs pressed ahead toward a referendum that would almost certainly ratify their leaders' rejection of the Vance-Owen peace plan. Europeans continued to resist America's proposals for arming the beleaguered Bosnian Muslims and conducting air strikes against Serb military targets, arguing that sanctions are the best route to peace. The no-longer-emboldened President Clinton backed off, agreeing not to act unilaterally...
...Davidians stockpiled guns and ammunition, Koresh's theology centered more obsessively upon the coming Apocalypse, binding Koresh and his followers in a vision of shared catastrophe in order to maintain their focus and resist the overtures of the authorities outside the compound. "Koresh would say we would have to suffer, that we were going to be persecuted and some of us would be killed and tortured," recalls David Bunds, who left the compound...