Word: resistance
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...lesbian, who had taken on a male identity to avoid the stigma of dating women as a female. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the reaction was how, in the wake of a murder prompted by the urge to punish the transgression of gender roles, no one could resist the urge to somehow fit Teena into some kind of explainable category...
...sport that emphasizes individual effort, O’Connor cannot resist putting the team first...
...Iraq's Kurdish leaders have been unwilling to move against the PKK, having tried and failed to defeat them during the 1990s. Instead, they have urged Turkey to seek a political solution to the conflict through peace talks and amnesty. And they're readying their own peshmerga militias to resist Turkey's incursion if they deem that their own people and territory are under attack...
...Spend your day trying to maintain your composure with a willful toddler or a demanding boss, and you may not have enough discipline left later to stick to your fitness routine. If that routine involves a diet, things can get even more complicated, as the effort you make to resist having a Snickers in the afternoon depletes your resolve to work out in the evening. "The more you use the self-control muscle," Herbert says, "the more tired it gets...
...British about the invasion ten days before the landing, British officials insist?and their U.S. counterparts agree?that they became convinced of the reality of the impending attack only on March 31, just two days before the assault, when there were no British forces in striking distance to resist. To confuse the issue slightly, Thatcher later admitted obliquely that a British submarine was "about" in the waters, but it could hardly have prevented the invasion...