Word: resisted
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Indeed, we resist the occasional temptation to report to you about our more general activities in part to ensure there can be no confusion anywhere about the independence of each of our magazines and, for that matter, of all our entities in print and video...
Impeded at times by a fairly lame English translation of Da Ponto's libretto by Andrew Porter (I mean, would Susanna really call Figaro a "blockhead" in the eighteenth century?), it is Mozart in the end who gives us the most aural pleasure. Who can resist the remarkable closing scene of The Marriage of Figaro, in which Figaro and Susanna, the Count and Countess Almaviva, Marcellina and Bartolo and all other cast members join together in praise of love and happiness? It's a scene not to be missed, confirming Mozart's brilliance in choral writing and the Lowell House...
Harvard administrators resist the notion of a Western Civilization core, or a curriculum designed to distribute education among departmental courses...
CDAR was formed last fall in response to the establishment of a Boston branch of Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion organization, said Lawrence. Lawrence added that CDAR's membership consists of the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Marxist-Leninist Party, Refuse & Resist--a pro-choice organization--and students from Harvard and Tufts...
...take the expression "affirmative action" to mean preferential treatment for disadvantaged groups....We take affirmative action to mean conscientious effort to counteract passive as well as active discrimination....Affirmative action involves vigorous effort to search beyond traditional networks; to broaden traditional definitions of field, approach or criteria; and to resist the inertia that works to ensure relative homogeneity among faculty and students...